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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, 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.
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James Elkins deposited New Ways of Experimenting with Images in Literature: On Christian Bok’s Xenotext 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.
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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, 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.
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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, 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.
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James Elkins deposited Deconstructing Danielewski’s “Complexity” 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.
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James Elkins deposited What Counts as Good Writing for Knausgaard? 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.
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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 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.
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James Elkins deposited High Point of the American Experimental Novel: Notes on David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress 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.
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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, 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.
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James Elkins deposited What is the Genuinely Strange in Literature? Notes on Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman 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. All c…[Read more]
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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]
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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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Brad Hostetler's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
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