Ken Seigneurie
Biographic Data
| ID | 76532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Seigneurie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Seigneurie |
| SIGNATURE | SEIGNEURIE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6447-0031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hagop Der Balian, Mémoires d’un survivant du génocide des Arméniens
Long before the great Parisian shoemaker Sarkis Der Balian was making beautiful footwear for the likes of Marie Curie, Salvador Dali, Greta Garbo, and Jean Anouilh, he watched his sister die of foot gangrene from walking unshod on a forced march in Cilicia in 1915-1916. His family’s story within the larger story of the Armenian genocide could have led Sarkis down other career paths – perhaps as a surgeon after watching a brother die of a bowel ob…
Modern nihilism and Naguib Mahfouz’s faith in liberalism
By mid-twentieth century, liberal thought was in crisis. Its victory over fascism ill concealed the empty promise at the heart of liberalism, that freedom defined as an absence of compulsion could substitute for a sense of human purpose. Non-western writers saw this as clearly as Camus, Arendt, Niebuhr, and Marcuse did. This essay regards Naguib Mahfouz’s 1965 novel, The Beggar, as a bid to critically intervene in debates around the crisis of lib…
Companion to World Literature
Companion to World Literature
Posthumous Images
A Companion to World Literature
2021 PROSE Finalist Single and Multivolume Reference, & Textbooks in the Humanities A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives…
The Institution and the Practice of Comparative Literature in Lebanon
Ken Seigneurie's article on “The Institution and the Practice of Comparative Literature in Lebanon” inaugurates in splendid fashion a new, occasional department of CLS, “Comparative Literature: The View from ...” that we hope will eventually attract a range of contributions from a variety of geographical locations. If the heart of comparative literature is transcultural analysis, we wish to extend such analysis to the discipline itself: comparati…
Lucia Volk. Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon. Bloomington, In
Discourses of the 2011 Arab Revolutions
This essay explores cultural discourses that framed the crucial first months of the uprisings that swept through the Arab world beginning in 2011. Methodologically, the essay seeks to show how the techniques of literary analysis can be used to understand the motivating factors of revolution. Three discourses in particular—human rights, progressive commitment and elegiac humanist—provided the practical, political and moral wherewithal for protesto…
The Wrench and the Ratchet
This essay examines the cultural politics of the Lebanese Independence Uprising of spring 2005. I argue that representations produced during the uprising reveal a rhetoric of resistance to the kind of military coercion and legitimating discourses that mark contemporary history, not just in the Arab world. Using concepts drawn from Jacques Rancière's work on discursive regimes, I show how the graffiti, chants, popular songs, video clips, signs, ba…
Anointing with Rubble
When the Lebanese civil war officially broke out in 1975, the conflict looked a lot like one of the numerous proxy wars that hitched local animosities to the East-West ideological struggle. Within a year, however, the cart began pulling the horse as ethnic-sectarian struggle preempted secular and Cold War imperatives. For literature, wartime chaos punctured the myth of progress and along with it realist literature predicated on a knowable world. …
The Importance of Being Kawabata
This is one of those rare essays, Dear Mr. Barthes, that will persuade you some minor critical category has been scandalously overlooked. I'm sure if you pay close attention, you will agree that it develops a valuable thesis about how stories inflect consciousness. You may even be surprised to see that concepts derived from particle physics like "inflect," "valence," and "oscillate" help us to recover a sense of human dignity
The Institution and the Practice of Comparative Literature in Lebanon
Ken Seigneurie's article on “The Institution and the Practice of Comparative Literature in Lebanon” inaugurates in splendid fashion a new, occasional department of CLS, “Comparative Literature: The View from ...” that we hope will eventually attract a range of contributions from a variety of geographical locations. If the heart of comparative literature is transcultural analysis, we wish to extend such analysis to the discipline itself: comparati…
Anointing with Rubble
When the Lebanese civil war officially broke out in 1975, the conflict looked a lot like one of the numerous proxy wars that hitched local animosities to the East-West ideological struggle. Within a year, however, the cart began pulling the horse as ethnic-sectarian struggle preempted secular and Cold War imperatives. For literature, wartime chaos punctured the myth of progress and along with it realist literature predicated on a knowable world. …
The Importance of Being Kawabata
This is one of those rare essays, Dear Mr. Barthes, that will persuade you some minor critical category has been scandalously overlooked. I'm sure if you pay close attention, you will agree that it develops a valuable thesis about how stories inflect consciousness. You may even be surprised to see that concepts derived from particle physics like "inflect," "valence," and "oscillate" help us to recover a sense of human dignity
Anointing with Rubble
When the Lebanese civil war officially broke out in 1975, the conflict looked a lot like one of the numerous proxy wars that hitched local animosities to the East-West ideological struggle. Within a year, however, the cart began pulling the horse as ethnic-sectarian struggle preempted secular and Cold War imperatives. For literature, wartime chaos punctured the myth of progress and along with it realist literature predicated on a knowable world. …
The Wrench and the Ratchet
This essay examines the cultural politics of the Lebanese Independence Uprising of spring 2005. I argue that representations produced during the uprising reveal a rhetoric of resistance to the kind of military coercion and legitimating discourses that mark contemporary history, not just in the Arab world. Using concepts drawn from Jacques Rancière's work on discursive regimes, I show how the graffiti, chants, popular songs, video clips, signs, ba…
Lucia Volk. Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon. Bloomington, In
Discourses of the 2011 Arab Revolutions
This essay explores cultural discourses that framed the crucial first months of the uprisings that swept through the Arab world beginning in 2011. Methodologically, the essay seeks to show how the techniques of literary analysis can be used to understand the motivating factors of revolution. Three discourses in particular—human rights, progressive commitment and elegiac humanist—provided the practical, political and moral wherewithal for protesto…
The Institution and the Practice of Comparative Literature in Lebanon
Ken Seigneurie's article on “The Institution and the Practice of Comparative Literature in Lebanon” inaugurates in splendid fashion a new, occasional department of CLS, “Comparative Literature: The View from ...” that we hope will eventually attract a range of contributions from a variety of geographical locations. If the heart of comparative literature is transcultural analysis, we wish to extend such analysis to the discipline itself: comparati…
A Companion to World Literature
2021 PROSE Finalist Single and Multivolume Reference, & Textbooks in the Humanities A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives…
Companion to World Literature
Companion to World Literature
Posthumous Images
Hagop Der Balian, Mémoires d’un survivant du génocide des Arméniens
Long before the great Parisian shoemaker Sarkis Der Balian was making beautiful footwear for the likes of Marie Curie, Salvador Dali, Greta Garbo, and Jean Anouilh, he watched his sister die of foot gangrene from walking unshod on a forced march in Cilicia in 1915-1916. His family’s story within the larger story of the Armenian genocide could have led Sarkis down other career paths – perhaps as a surgeon after watching a brother die of a bowel ob…
Modern nihilism and Naguib Mahfouz’s faith in liberalism
By mid-twentieth century, liberal thought was in crisis. Its victory over fascism ill concealed the empty promise at the heart of liberalism, that freedom defined as an absence of compulsion could substitute for a sense of human purpose. Non-western writers saw this as clearly as Camus, Arendt, Niebuhr, and Marcuse did. This essay regards Naguib Mahfouz’s 1965 novel, The Beggar, as a bid to critically intervene in debates around the crisis of lib…
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