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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Barbara Johnson and Deconstruction in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a note on the changing definition of deconstruction and the critical priorities surrounding the concept of difference in two of Barbara Johnson’s works, ‘The Critical Difference’ (1980) and ‘A World of Difference’ (1987).
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Enchanting Literary Modernity: Idris Bazorkin’s Postcolonial Soviet Pastoral (The Modern Language Review, 2020) in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis article introduces the Ingush writer Idris Bazorkin. Bazorkin’s novel Dark Ages (1968) is examined as a pastoral novel that cultivates a Soviet style of postcolonial reflection on the cultural and historical memory of colonial rule.
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Thank you Rebecca Ruth Gold. The comparisons you draw between the novels of Thomas Hardy and Idris Bazorkin’s novel provide us with a picture of a complicated pastoral and sophisticated critique of colonialism (and, as you suggest, by implication the Soviet regime). At one point, the article contrasts Hardy’s “dense palimpsests of multiply…[Read more]
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Dear Francois, Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and questions! Yes, I think you are correct. In both Hardy (esp. The Woodlanders) and Bazorkin, the landscapes are part of the plot itself. I don’t think one can begin to understand the literature of the Caucasus without reflecting deeply on the way in which mountains frame our sense of humans’…[Read more]
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As we exchange remarks about the impetus and impact of time & place in the generation of ecocritical discourse, I am reminded of Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope. There is a certain imbrication of time, place and person and the question, for me, of who has access to the ecopoetical sublime and when. I wonder if the literary theory derived from…[Read more]
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Thanks so much, Francois, for the thought-provoking questions and suggestions! I look forward to continuing the conversation!
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Notes from Northrop Frye ‘Anatomy of Criticism’ (A Post-Mortem of the Anatomy) in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoNotes from Northrop Frye´s seminal volume in archetypal/anthropological criticism, “Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays” (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1957. Rpt. 1971. 383 p). Notes taken by J. A. García Landa c. 1985, edited with illustrations for online publication 2018-20. Parenthetical pagination numbers refer to the quotations and text f…[Read more]
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Laura Smith deposited Relational Landscapes: Teaching Chaco Canyon with Immersive Technology in the group
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis lesson plan is intended for a large class in a semester-long face-to-face Native North American art history or visual culture course with 80-minute sessions. Considering many programs do not have courses in Native North American art history, variations for general surveys of North American arts, Western European arts, or of global art…[Read more]
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Cheryl Johnson deposited Students as Knowledge Producers: Understanding Arab-Americans in Central Ohio through Oral History Narratives in the group
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the presentation file the Hanada Al-Masri, Cheryl Johnson and Olivia Reynolds used in their presentation at the 2020 Global Digital Humanities Symposium.
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Claire Clivaz deposited Digitized and Digitalized Humanities: Words and Identity in the group
Digital Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis paper analyses two closely related but different concepts, digitization and digitalization, first discussed in an encyclopedia article by Brennen and Kreiss in 2016. Digital Humanities mainly uses the first term, whereas business and economics tend to use the second to praise the process of the digitalization of society. But digitalization…[Read more]
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Kristen Mapes started the topic DH Pedagogy Resources in the discussion
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoTo continue the conversation and spark new strategies for incorporating DH into our pedagogy.
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