Michelle Boswell
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
Forgive the intrusion, but I thought some members of this group might be interested in the following (and the HuMetrics team would certainly be interested in hearing the perspectives of those interested in writing pedagogies):
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and p…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Anthony Adler deposited Deconfabulation: Agamben’s Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAgamben’s self-professed epigonism underwrites his entire project, serving as an even more fundamental methodological concept than the signature, paradigm, and archeology. In Infancy and History, Agamben maintains that transcendental experience is no longer a viable source of philosophical insight; philosophers go astray referring their thinking b…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited The “Finnegans Wake of Russia,” And Its Translation Problems: On Sasha Sokolov’s “Between Dog and Wolf” 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.
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James Elkins deposited Why Write Average Books? On Julian Barnes’s “The Sense of an Ending” 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.
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James Elkins deposited Compulsively Fractal Writing and Its Limits: Thoughts on Stephen Dixon, and Especially “Frog” 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.
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James Elkins deposited Images in Susan Howe’s “The Midnight” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 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 Images in Monica Ong’s “Silent Anatomies” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 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 The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the politics of sound and noise in Kafka’s “Der Bau.”
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Anthony Adler deposited The Abject Life of Things h.c. andersen’s sentimentality in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe following paper attempts a philosophically rigorous interpretation of H.C. Andersen’s tales. Through a radically conceived sentimentality — the unmediated juxtaposition of the abjection of things, conceived as a paradoxical “desire for desire” having no place in the world, with a cruel, apathetic gaze — Andersen challenges the exist…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited Images in Andre Breton’s “Nadja” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 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
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 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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Donald Haase deposited Coleridge and Henry Boyd’s Translation of Dante’s “Inferno”: Toward a Demonic Interpretation of “Kubla Khan” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoDrawing on Henry Boyd’s 1785 translation of the “Inferno,” this note documents the nature and extent of Coleridge’s knowledge of the “Inferno” and demonstrates that Dante’s work probably did influence Coleridge during the composition of “Kubla Khan.”
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James Elkins deposited Deconstructing Danielewski’s “Complexity” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory 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 On the Limits of Wit and of Plotting in Maximalist Novels: Notes on Sergio De la Pava, Naked Singularity in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory 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 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, 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. All c…[Read more]
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Donald Paul Haase deposited The Sleeping Script: Memory and Forgetting in Grimms’ Romantic Fairy Tale (KHM 50) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe Grimms’ tale of “Brier Rose” (KHM 50) has self-reflexive characteristics of the Romantic literary fairy tale. In thematizing memory and alluding to the imagery used in the preface to the Grimm brothers’ collection of fairy tales, Wilhelm Grimm’s version of the story self-consciously reflects on its own origins and exhibits a self-awareness…[Read more]
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