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James Elkins deposited What Is a Fragment of / in Fiction? Thoughts on Pierre Senges’s “Fragments of Lichtenberg” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited The “Finnegans Wake of Russia,” And Its Translation Problems: On Sasha Sokolov’s “Between Dog and Wolf” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited Why Write Average Books? On Julian Barnes’s “The Sense of an Ending” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited The Prehistory of Constrained Writing: Thoughts on Michel Butor’s “Degrees, A Novel” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited Compulsively Fractal Writing and Its Limits: Thoughts on Stephen Dixon, and Especially “Frog” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited What it Means to Write a Novel After Novels Have Ended: Thoughts on Bolano’s “By Night in Chile” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited A Relation Between Theory and the Machinic Imagination: Notes on Christine Brooke-Rose’s “Life, End of” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited Representing a Ruined Mind in Fiction; and a Note on How Google Ruins Reading: On Markson’s “Reader’s Block” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited On Late Romanticism in Fiction: Peter Handke’s “Slow Homecoming” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited The Idea of Second Rank Writers; And a Connection between Similes and Autism: Notes on Nicholson Baker in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited The Photographs in Wright Morris’s “The Home Place” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited Images in Susan Howe’s “The Midnight” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited Images in Sebald’s “Rings of Saturn” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited The Images in Monica Ong’s “Silent Anatomies” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited The Very Strange Photographs in Kobo Abe’s Very Strange “Box Man” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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Anthony Adler deposited The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the politics of sound and noise in Kafka’s “Der Bau.”
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Anthony Adler deposited The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the politics of sound and noise in Kafka’s “Der Bau.”
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Anthony Adler deposited The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau” in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the politics of sound and noise in Kafka’s “Der Bau.”
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Anthony Adler deposited The Abject Life of Things h.c. andersen’s sentimentality in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe following paper attempts a philosophically rigorous interpretation of H.C. Andersen’s tales. Through a radically conceived sentimentality — the unmediated juxtaposition of the abjection of things, conceived as a paradoxical “desire for desire” having no place in the world, with a cruel, apathetic gaze — Andersen challenges the exist…[Read more]
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Anthony Adler deposited The Abject Life of Things h.c. andersen’s sentimentality in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe following paper attempts a philosophically rigorous interpretation of H.C. Andersen’s tales. Through a radically conceived sentimentality — the unmediated juxtaposition of the abjection of things, conceived as a paradoxical “desire for desire” having no place in the world, with a cruel, apathetic gaze — Andersen challenges the exist…[Read more]
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