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Ernesto Priego deposited Call for Papers: Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution – The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship shares its Call for Papers for the Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution. This Special Collection of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship will focus on the global circulation of comics in digital forms, from webcomics…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP: Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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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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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La gestión de la realidad mediante la atención: Como una burbuja in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoSpanish Abstract: Partiendo de un madrigal de William Drummond of Hawthornden, comentamos el papel estructurador que desempeñan en la generación y gestión de la realidad los marcos interaccionales de referencia definidos por Goffman, en tanto que instrumentos de gestión de la atención colectiva. Es la capacidad de la mente humana para comb…[Read more]
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