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The article presents the author's views on writers Marguerite Duras' and Plato's depictions of erotic attraction. He states that love in Duras' work is closely linked with death and mourning while Plato's is that of spiritual love, however he contends that their depictions have more in common than what is generally believed. He explores the tensions between immediacy and transcendence in some of the authors' works which include "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Symposium."

A literary criticism of Joachim Du Bellay's 1558 collection of sonnets "Les Regrets" is presented. It explores the history of Du Bellay's criticism and his collection often thought of as a straightforward record of a unified subject, uncontaminated by artifice, imitation or social posturing. It formulates an alternative hermeneutic context for the poems based on the theory that "Regrets" are a self-conscious lyric collection and an imitation that allows the poet to suture the poems together.

The article offers the author's perspective on the nature of the poetry of Sextus Propertius. He states that the concept which notes that Propertian elegance may be represented by an art of sharp juxtapositions or wry irony is rejected as a modernist canard. Also, he argues that every time a judgment is established on where a poem begins or ends, or whether one textual variant is to be chosen to another literary view of interpretation are inescapable.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the Freudian concept of unheimlich or the uncanny, the primacy of the topological in the later teaching of Jacques Lacan and the use of Lacanian psychoanalysis to read 17th and 18th-century French literary texts.

This article argues that Persius' claim to truth is inseparable from the stylistic complexity of his poetry. Irony becomes a method of truth-telling, not simply as a means of demystification but also as a way of pointing beyond the corruption of contemporary language. Part I of the article examines Persius' general discussion of poetic style throughout the corpus in light of Stoic conceptions of truth and the "sayable." Part II focuses on the opening of the Prologue and its relation to Satire 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an argument on the concept of knowledge and humanities. It states that philosopher Socrates views knowledge as awareness in finitude that grounds consciousness to self reflection while psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that knowledge is an exchangeable commodity. It mentions the book "The Parallax View" by Zizek which provides a series of arguments on the philosophy of the mind, ethics and politics which is in opposition to Socrates' beliefs.

This article discusses the concepts of ethics and irony and the role of irony in any ethical work. A parallel illustration of ethics and irony is presented through the works and writings of Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. Major claims note that irony is the disruptive emergence of reality into a symbolic continuity through a gesture, that irony is the result of critical thinking and ethics and the possibility of saying something real or ethical is based on the possibility of not saying what one means.

Deals with classical poetry by Propertius. Post-Lacanian feminists' definition of a woman; Creation of a subject position identified simultaneously with Augustan and anti-Augustan positions; Deployment of the trope of gender inversion in elegiac discourse; Explanatory framework for examining formal rhetoric of elegy.

This paper argues that French poststructuralist theory does not represent a movement antithetical to Classics and the Classical Tradition, but should be read as its extension. Major recurring themes of poststructuralist thought are articulated at the beginning of the 1960's in Lacan's commentaries on Sophocles' Antigone and Plato's Symposium. Derrida's reading of the Phaedrus as well as his citation of the Platonic tradition in his dispute with Foucault over the latter's Histoire de la folie further confirm the importance of the Hellenic tradition to poststructuralism's engagement with occidental philosophy. Finally, Foucault's late turn to Stoicism and the philosophers of the Roman imperial period can be seen as a response to and criticism of the positions established by Lacan and Derrida. The Classics are not only relevant to understanding poststructuralist theory and philosophy, but actually define the terms of its debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines etymology and dialectics in Stephane Mallarme's poem `Sonnet en yx.' Mallarme's interest in the poetic possibilities of historical philology; Hegel's influence on Mallarme's thought on language and history; Mallarme's use of Latin and Greek etymologies of individual words; Use of the Greek word `ptyx.'

Examines the relationship between the images of fire and the labyrinth as used in Books 5 and 6 of Vergil's `Aeneid'. Intersection of a series of fire images with a series of labyrinth images; Embodiment of the Minotaur and the action of Trojan women of unlawful desires; Use of analytical categories of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan; Labyrinth as symbolic of repression.