“Words are Things”: Byron’s Fugitive Pieces

Lost in Transculturation: Evicted Travellers in Lily Brett’s Things Could Be Worse and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces

In a recent book titled The Grammar of Identity, Stephen Clingman addresses the notion of the “transnational self” as intrinsically transitive or navigational, by which he implies both the internal and external navigation, as well as the navigation between one self and the others. In his view, “navigation does not mean crossing or having crossed, but being in the space of crossing,” as in “acce...

How to do things with (recorded) words

The aim of this paper is to evaluate which context determines the illocutionary force of written or recorded utterances—those involved in written texts, films and images, conceived as recordings that can be seen or heard in different occasions. More precisely, my paper deals with the ‘‘metaphysical’’ or constitutive role of context—as opposed to its epistemic or evidential role: my goal is to d...

Bilattices Are Nice Things

One approach to the paradoxes of self-referential languages is to allow some sentences to lack a truth value (or to have more than one). Then assigning truth values where possible becomes a fixpoint construction and, following Kripke, this is usually carried out over a partially ordered family of three-valued truth-value assignments. Some years ago Matt Ginsberg introduced the notion of bilatti...

Fugitive Saint

Angela Verne. (Catholic Printing Company, Farnwort'1' Bolton, Lanes. 18s.) "According to legend, she (St. Dymphna) fled from Ireland to Gheel with the priest Gonerbernus to escape the unholy desire of her own father, a pagan kl0fc of Ireland. The latter, however, discovered their whereabouts and put them ^ death." These stark sentences, which embody all that is known of the patron sain of the f...

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