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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAre you busy still? I have sent you my recent research paper on spectral consciousness in post-9/11 American poetry, and looking forward to your valuable feedbacks.
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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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 Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 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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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoNo, I’m afraid that in my department (Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies) the people who keep up with contemporary lit are fiction people. Personally, I know no one who reads contemporary poetry very much, or at least who writes much about it. In fall, in my Introduction to Asian Pacific American lit class, I will assign the new book of…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoI understand that you are extremely busy at present, but it is urgent. Could you refer me to any specialist, who may be willing to collaborate with me?
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoI am sorry to know that you are extremely busy at present, but we can still resume our academic discussion when you feel free of any burden as I appreciate your critical insights. In the meantime, could you refer me to any specialist in the field of 21st century American poetry, who may be willing to collaborate with me? Please, note that it is…[Read more]
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simeon chavel deposited Prophetic Imagination in the Light of Narratology and Disability Studies in Isaiah 40–48 in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAnalyzes Isaiah 40–48 as a single literary work through levels of speakers (frame and subordinate) with implications for its construction of divine potency and communication.
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoOh no. I have been, and continue to be, extremely busy with several ongoing projects, including the writing of a book proposal. I would have no time or opportunity for a collaboration for quite some time. Moreover, I sense that your knowledge of contemporary poetry greatly exceeds mine. I know several writers’ work fairly well, but don’t keep up…[Read more]
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