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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 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 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
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
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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Anthony Adler deposited The Abject Life of Things h.c. andersen’s sentimentality in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German 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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James Elkins deposited Remarks on a Little-Known Book of Images and Text: Helene Sommers’s wonderful “I Was There” 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 first illustrated novel: Georges Rodenbach’s “Bruges-la-morte” 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 Analog in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Audiophilia, Semiaura and the Cultural Memory of the Phonograph in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago“analyses the spectral presence of the phonograph within a digital omnipresence: its afterlife as a material echo of the past… Analyzing audiophilia— basically a desire for material presence — in the apparently disembodied age of the digital, Adler shows how the former is as it were animated as aura by the effects of the latter (infinite…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited Yves Bonnefoy, The arriere-pays in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature 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 Anne Carson, “Nox” 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 What’s the Deal?: Fichte’s Closed Commercial State, Trump, and Economic Nationalism in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoStarting out from an analysis of the “Art of the Deal,” this paper seeks to understand Trump’s “deal-making” as a form of life under capitalism organized around the paradoxical desire to simultaneously “be the game” and be the “biggest winner”— In this way, Trump exemplifies a modern pathological form of existence whose proximate roots can be…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited What is a Rant in Literature: Notes on Gaddis’s Agape Agape 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 Ultimate Failed Modernist Hyper-Novel: Miklos Szentkuthy, Prae, part one 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 the Possibility of Teaching the Reader Chinese (I.e., Including a New Language): On Harry Mathews’s The Journalist 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 Misunderstanding the Relation between Literary Modernism and Gender, Identity, and Other Contemporary Concerns: Some Notes on Zadie Smith 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 Why is Extremely Violent or Disgusting Subject Matter Still Inimical to Literature? Notes on Stokoe’s Novel Cows 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 What Counts as Good Writing for Knausgaard? 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 High Point of the American Experimental Novel: Notes on David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress 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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