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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 agoI think the proposal is impressive, though I am concerned about the scale of the period covered. Is it possible to speak of “early” and “late” reactions to an event that happened less than sixteen years ago? I see that the anthology was published in 2002, the year following 9/11. I had a poem in the Poets Against War website in 2003, and looking…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Excuse the Preface: Hemingway’s Introductions for Other Writers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoOver the course of his career Ernest Hemingway wrote introductions for a number of writers. These pieces have been largely forgotten, but study and analysis of Hemingway’s introductions offers additional insight into the well-known author. The process of creating and marketing these pieces allowed Hemingway to manipulate and refine his public p…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Refusing the Serious: Authorial Resistance in Ring Lardner’s Prefaces for Scribner’s in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThough already famous, wealthy, and squarely established as a popular chronicler of the early
twentieth century, humorist Ring Lardner’s foray into a serious literary career with Charles Scribner’s
Sons Publishing Company is best characterized as an act of authorial resistance. Rather than evolve into
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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 at present? I would be greatly obliged if you offer scholarly feedbacks on my research-proposal, and answer the questions of my last correspondence as soon as possible.
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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, 9 months agoI have sent my research proposal to the e-mail address you gave me in your last correspondence.Please, inform me whether you have got it, and I would be greatly obliged if you offer your valuable feedbacks on it.
Now, let’s turn to our ongoing discussion. So far as my knowledge is concerned, confessional poets (for example, Sylvia Plath) are…[Read more] -
Sophia Booth Magnone deposited Finding Ferality in the Anthropocene: Marie Darrieussecq’s “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoWhat will it take to undomesticate the world—to begin to loosen humanity’s tight grasp on the planet’s spaces, structures, resources, and populations? Marie Darrieussecq’s short story “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” describes the intrusion of an unidentifiable creature into a fastidious woman’s apartment home, a modest but powerful scen…[Read more]
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Sophia Booth Magnone deposited Microbial Zoopoetics in Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper reads Octavia Butler’s 1984 novel Clay’s Ark as a speculative handbook for living collaboratively in a more-than-human world. Drawing on Aaron Moe’s theory of zoopoetics, as well as emerging research on the effects of the human microbiome on health, behavior, and personality, I consider how the novel’s “villain,” an infectious…[Read more]
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Well, I just learned a new word. Good way to start the day.
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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, 9 months agoI would love to see your proposal. My email address is <streamas@wsu.edu>, and you may just send it that way if you’d prefer. We’ve avoided the word “confessional,” and I think that’s wise. I don’t think Gluck is a conventionally confessional poet, yet she’s less “historical” and public than, say, the Lowell of the 1960s. Because several new books…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe LA Times just gave it quite the review. I can’t wait to start it, but I’m reading Cryptonomicon right now, and have to finish that first (almost there…)!
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Sophia Booth Magnone replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoOh, and I’m looking forward to learning more about Borne at a reading Vandermeer is doing here in a couple weeks.
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Sophia Booth Magnone replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI was totally entranced by the Southern Reach trilogy. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to teach it—probably just the first book, since the trilogy’s so long. If anyone has put it on a syllabus, I’d be really interested to hear how that went!
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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, 9 months agoI did not respond to your answer quickly because I thought you were busy with the study of An Eye For An Eye. You are, definitely, right in assuming that the subject position of the speaker in October makes him/her incapable of making any political comments. But it also enables him/her to contemplate on post-traumatic self and human life in its…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMy copy of Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne arrived this morning in the mail. Has anyone else read or taught it (or his Southern Reach Trilogy)?
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Peter Schmidt deposited “’Truth so mazed’: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoTreats the meaning of the phrase quoted in the title for Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and, especially, “The Bear.” Published in Cambridge UP’s anthology of new essays, Faulkner in Context, edited John Matthews, 2015.
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Peter Schmidt deposited William Carlos Review-essay of William Carlos Williams, _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_. Compiled and Edited by Jonathan Cohen. Foreword by Julio Marzán. New York: New Directions, 2011. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoAll of William Carlos Williams’ translations from the Spanish have been gathered and expertly edited by Jonathan Cohen. Williams’ translations were collaborative and a key factor in his growth during three different phases of his career: during World War I and his crucial break-through as an artist; during the 1930s, inspired by the Spanish…[Read more]
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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, 9 months agoI haven’t read everything in the anthology yet, but am curious about October. Gluck seems to be one of those “nature” poets who really isn’t writing about flora and fauna but about the self, but that makes political comment feel distant, uncommitted. She’s saying, not “I am deeply wounded by the deaths of those refugees” but “I am deeply wounded…[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, 9 months agoSir,
Is your reading of An Eye For An Eye and October finished? If so, please, make some scholarly comments on them.
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