Poetry as a Subversive Literature

Teaching Natural Deduction as a Subversive Activity

In this paper we argue that sequent proofs systems are a better deductive apparatus for introducing proofs to students than are natural deduction systems. Natural deduction derivations of superintuitionistic theorems (theorems of classical logic that are not intuitionistically valid) require indirect and often obtuse constructions. Constructing derivations in sequent systems is uniform, driven ...

Lyric Poetry as Society

Psychoanalysis as poetry.

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...

Pound’s Poetry as IMAGE TEXT

The First Supper Postmodern Irony as Subversive Rhetorical Strategy

In this essay, the use of postmodern rhetorical irony as a subversive strategy is explored. In particular, Susan Dorothea White's painting, The First Supper, is analyzed as a subversive, postmodern ironic reading of Leonardo da Vinci's famed work, The Last Supper. This analysis suggests that subversive irony assumes distinctive and complex technical and theoretical characteristics, most relevan...