Maria Pocsai-Faglin






Maria Pocsai-Faglin is a PhD student in Philosophy at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of the University of Debrecen. Her research topic lies at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and literature: (self-)creative writing.

Her first essays focusing on writing as a means of transformation and developing the Self were discussing the questions of narrative identity (“Fragments of Poetry as Reflections of the Problems of Moor’s Identity in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh”, 2001; “Fragmented Narration in Martin Amis’ Money and London Fields: The Other Selves of John Self and Samson Young”, 2003).

This latter work led her to a more in-depth investigation of human creativity: her second MA thesis was entitled “The Relation Between the Created and Creative “I” in Hannah Arendt’s Love and Saint Augustine and The Life of the Mind”, 2004).

Within two years, her research started to extend towards a new area, the object of this creativity, which is, at the same time, the subject itself.

Papers

Literary Theory / Aesthetics


Portia and the Ambiguity of Controller and Controlled in William Shakespeare`s The Merchant of Venice (2000)

Perception of Subjectivity and Images of Wholeness in Norman MacCaig’s Poetry (2001)

Fragments of Poetry as Reflections of the Problems of Moor’s Identity in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh (2001)

Lily Briscoe, the Artist in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (2002)

Images of Masculinity and Femininity in Charlotte Bronte`s Jane Eyre (2002)

Images of War and Decadence in Christopher Isherwood’s  Goodbye to Berlin (2002)

Beyond Alchemy: A Non-Metaphorical Creation in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (2003)

Fragmented Narration in Martin Amis’ Money and London Fields: The Other Selves of John Self and Samson Young (2003)

Interpretation as Text in Nietzsche and Barthes (2003)

Moor as a Work of Art in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh (2004)

The Text as the Incarnation of a Body (2006)

Sharing the Body - the Reader and the Text (2007)

Review: Georges Poulet and the "Phenomenology of Reading" (2007)

The Text as a Reader, the Reader as a Text (2008)
Philosophy / Political Theory / Cultural Studies

Insights into the Situation of Women in Canada (Based on Sharon Pollock`s Blood Relations) (2001)

Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 (2002)

Concepts of Truth and Reality in Rorty and Nietzsche (2002)

Split and Wholeness in Pentecost (2002)

The Definition of Philosophy in Karl Jaspers' Introduction to Philosophy (2002)

Education and the Legitimation of Education through Performativity in Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition (2003)

On Suicide (2003)

On Rawls "Original Position" (2004)

The American Reception of Hannah Arendt: The Effect of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers on Hannah Arendt's Interpretation of Saint Augustine - A Review on   ”Rediscovering  Hannah  Arendt” by J.  Vecchiarelli  Scott  and  J. Chelius   Stark (2004)

The Relation Between the Created and Creative “I” in Hannah Arendt’s Love and Saint Augustine and The Life of the Mind (2004)

Escaping Virtual Worlds - Incarnating Inner Realities /with Roger Faglin/ (2007)

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