Daniel Weiskopf
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James Elkins deposited A Vertiginous Slide Into Literary Self-Regard: Notes on Enrique Vila-Matas, Because She Never Asked 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]
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James Elkins deposited What is Psychological Complexity? Notes on Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 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. The context i…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited Why it is Important That Novels Fail in Many Ways: Notes on Romina Paula, August on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 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. The context i…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited What Happens When Constrained Writing Doesn’t Follow Its Constraints? Notes on Alejandro Zambra, Multiple Choice on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 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. The context i…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited A History of the Novel Without Literary Theory: Notes on Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 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. The context i…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited How Philosophical Fiction Works Against Fiction: Notes on DeLillo’s Point Omega on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 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. The context i…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited How to Structure a 1,300 Page Book: Notes on William Vollmann’s Imperial on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 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. The context i…[Read more]
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James Elkins posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
@lajosbrons “Language Death” is a great paper. Well reasoned, succinct, and it addresses an excellent question. I hope you expand it into a book!
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Thanks for the compliment.
It won’t grown into a book, but a more advanced version of the model used for that paper may appear in some future work.
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