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  • The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Philosophy, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Translation Studies, Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Art, History, French literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    affect theory, Expressionism, Gilles Deleuze, painting, sensation, Art history, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Visual studies

  • Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    RCWS History and Theory of Composition, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    French literature, Literature and science, Science--Sociological aspects
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    critical theory, Michele Audin, Mathematics, Literary theory, Literary criticism, Sociology of science

  • When Novels are Too Comforting: Thoughts on Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, Popular culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    popular culture, sentimental fiction, Ann Patchett, Best sellers, Popular culture studies

  • A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson's "The Peripheral"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Speculative fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    contemporary fiction, William Gibson, Science fiction, Literary criticism, Literary theory

  • What Is a Fragment of / in Fiction? Thoughts on Pierre Senges's "Fragments of Lichtenberg"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    RCWS History and Theory of Composition, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Translation Studies
    Subject(s):
    French literature, Germanic literature, Rhetoric
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    rhetorical analysis, Pierre Senges, Lichtenberg, Aphorism, Metaphor, Translation studies

  • The "Finnegans Wake of Russia," And Its Translation Problems: On Sasha Sokolov's "Between Dog and Wolf"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Modern, Russian literature, Russia, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Avant-garde, contemporary fiction, James Joyce, postmodernism, Sasha Sokolov, Modern literature, Russian studies

  • Why Write Average Books? On Julian Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    English literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    contemporary fiction, Literary criticism, Postmodern fiction, Julian Barnes

  • The Prehistory of Constrained Writing: Thoughts on Michel Butor's "Degrees, A Novel"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Literary Translation, TC Philosophy and Literature, Theory and Modernism
    Subject(s):
    French literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Constrained writing, Experimental writing, Michel Butor, OuLiPo

  • Compulsively Fractal Writing and Its Limits: Thoughts on Stephen Dixon, and Especially "Frog"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    RCWS History and Theory of Composition, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    English literature, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Coherence, Contemporary novel, Metafiction, Unity, Stephen Dixon, Literary criticism

  • The Difference between Fragments and Parts: Notes on Will Eaves's "The Absent Therapist"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Will Eaves, Coherence, Unity, Literary criticism, Modern literature

  • Frantic Cleverness as a Style: Notes on Nell Zink's "The Wallcreeper"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Wit, Humor, Contemporary fiction, Modern literature

  • On the Aesthetic Pleasure and Fictive Nature of Footnotes: Nabokov's 1,200 Pages of Commentary on Eugene Onegin

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Literary Translation
    Subject(s):
    Russian literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Pushkin, Nabokov, Footnotes, Archives

  • What it Means to Write a Novel After Novels Have Ended: Thoughts on Bolano's "By Night in Chile"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Translation Studies
    Subject(s):
    Latin American literature, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Contemporary novel, Chile, Chilean literature, Roberto Bolano, Politics and fiction

  • A Relation Between Theory and the Machinic Imagination: Notes on Christine Brooke-Rose's "Life, End of"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Philosophy, TC Philosophy and Literature, Theory and Modernism
    Subject(s):
    English literature, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    autobiography, Memoirs, Memoir

  • Representing a Ruined Mind in Fiction; and a Note on How Google Ruins Reading: On Markson's "Reader's Block"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature, Theory and Modernism, TM Language Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    David Markson, Metafiction

  • On Late Romanticism in Fiction: Peter Handke's "Slow Homecoming"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    German Literature and Culture, Literary Translation, TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Germanic literature, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Peter Handke, Romanticism

  • The Idea of Second Rank Writers; And a Connection between Similes and Autism: Notes on Nicholson Baker

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Rhetoric, Autism--Social aspects
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Literary criticism, Nicholson Baker, Postmodern fiction, Sociology of autism

  • The Photographs in Wright Morris's "The Home Place"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    United States, Area studies, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Word and image, Wright Morris, American studies, Modern literature

  • Images in Umberto Exo's "Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Literary Translation
    Subject(s):
    Italian literature, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Word and image, Umberto Eco, Memoirs, Modern literature

  • Images in Susan Howe's "The Midnight"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Contemporary poetry, Experimental writing, Susan Howe

  • Images in Sebald's "Rings of Saturn"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Literary Translation, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Translation Studies
    Subject(s):
    Germans--Social life and customs, Germanic literature, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Literary historiography, W.G. Sebald, Word and image, Germanic culture, Modern literature

  • The Anonymous Images in Raymond Roussel's "New Impressions of Africa"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    RCWS History and Theory of Composition
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Modern, Poetics
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    surrealism, Word and image, Raymond Roussel, French poetry, Modern literature

  • The Images in Monica Ong's "Silent Anatomies"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Art, Modern, Twenty-first century
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Contemporary poetry, Monica Ong, Contemporary art

  • The Very Strange Photographs in Kobo Abe's Very Strange "Box Man"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Japanese literature, Japan, Area studies, Photography
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    photography, Kobo Abe, Japanese studies

  • Photographs and Text in John Gardner's "Mickelsson's Ghosts"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Photography
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Word and image, John Gardner, Photography

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