-
James Elkins deposited What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone in the group
Theory and Modernism 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.
-
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, 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.
-
James Elkins deposited What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition 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.
-
James Elkins deposited What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone in the group
Literary Translation 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.
-
James Elkins deposited What is the Genuinely Strange in Literature? Notes on Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman 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. All c…[Read more]
-
James Elkins deposited What is the Genuinely Strange in Literature? Notes on Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman in the group
Theory and Modernism 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. All c…[Read more]
-
James Elkins deposited What is a Rant in Literature: Notes on Gaddis’s Agape Agape on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited The Ultimate Failed Modernist Hyper-Novel: Miklos Szentkuthy, Prae, part one on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited The Material of Writing Before Materiality Theory: On A.R. Ammons’s Tape for the Turn of the Year on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited On the Possibility of Teaching the Reader Chinese (I.e., Including a New Language): On Harry Mathews’s The Journalist on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited New Ways of Experimenting with Images in Literature: On Christian Bok’s Xenotext on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited Misunderstanding the Relation between Literary Modernism and Gender, Identity, and Other Contemporary Concerns: Some Notes on Zadie Smith on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited Why is Extremely Violent or Disgusting Subject Matter Still Inimical to Literature? Notes on Stokoe’s Novel Cows on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited Deconstructing Danielewski’s “Complexity” on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited What Counts as Good Writing for Knausgaard? on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited On the Limits of Wit and of Plotting in Maximalist Novels: Notes on Sergio De la Pava, Naked Singularity on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited High Point of the American Experimental Novel: Notes on David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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.
-
James Elkins deposited What is the Genuinely Strange in Literature? Notes on Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The 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. All c…[Read more]
-
James Elkins deposited On A Lack of Ambition: Notes on Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Last Wolf on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons 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. The context is my own writing project. All comments and c…[Read more]
- Load More