Ordinariness in Disaster: Rereading Brion’s “Story” During the Covid-19 Pandemic

In contexts of broad structural strain, humanistic psychology points to the deeply embodied, relational, and spatiotemporal nature of literary encounters by agents in history. Through heuristic inquiry, this essay examines thematic transformations of Rofel G. Brion’s Story (1997), an autobiographica...

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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.mathematics-faculty-pubs-12002022-04-21T06:46:52Z Ordinariness in Disaster: Rereading Brion’s “Story” During the Covid-19 Pandemic Uyheng, Joshua In contexts of broad structural strain, humanistic psychology points to the deeply embodied, relational, and spatiotemporal nature of literary encounters by agents in history. Through heuristic inquiry, this essay examines thematic transformations of Rofel G. Brion’s Story (1997), an autobiographical collection of poetry, when reread during the COVID-19 pandemic. I reflect on selected poems to reconsider and reclaim themes of intimacy amid solitude through narrative affection, home in exile through connections of care, and possibilities for living in ordinary time. 2021-10-15T07:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/mathematics-faculty-pubs/193 https://ajol.ateneo.edu/paha/articles/535/6840 Mathematics Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo care COVID-19 pandemic humanistic psychology ordinariness narrative Psychology
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Ordinariness in Disaster: Rereading Brion’s “Story” During the Covid-19 Pandemic
description In contexts of broad structural strain, humanistic psychology points to the deeply embodied, relational, and spatiotemporal nature of literary encounters by agents in history. Through heuristic inquiry, this essay examines thematic transformations of Rofel G. Brion’s Story (1997), an autobiographical collection of poetry, when reread during the COVID-19 pandemic. I reflect on selected poems to reconsider and reclaim themes of intimacy amid solitude through narrative affection, home in exile through connections of care, and possibilities for living in ordinary time.
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title Ordinariness in Disaster: Rereading Brion’s “Story” During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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url https://archium.ateneo.edu/mathematics-faculty-pubs/193
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