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  • Remarks on a Little-Known Book of Images and Text: Helene Sommers's wonderful "I Was There"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Norwegian language, Norwegian literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    artists books, Experimental writing

  • The first illustrated novel: Georges Rodenbach's "Bruges-la-morte"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Literary Translation, TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    French literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Symbolism, Georges Rodenbach, Fin-de-siecle literature, Fin-de-siecle

  • Images of Art and Science in Christian Bok's "Crystallography"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Canadian literature, Literature and science
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Christian Bok, Postwar Canadian literature, Science and art

  • Images in Andre Breton's "Nadja"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Translation Studies, Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    French literature, France, Area studies, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Andre Breton, Surrealism, French studies, Modern literature

  • Yves Bonnefoy, The arriere-pays

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Literary Translation, TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Philosophy, Continental, French literature, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Contemporary poetry, Yves Bonnnefoy, Memoir, W.G. Sebald, Continental philosophy

  • Anne Carson, "Nox"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature, TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Art, Modern, Twenty-first century, Narration (Rhetoric)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Classical rhetoric, Contemporary poetry, Images, Anne Carson, Contemporary art, Narrativity

  • What is a Rant in Literature: Notes on Gaddis's Agape Agape

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature, Theory and Modernism
    Subject(s):
    American literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Maximalist fiction, William Gaddis, Postwar fiction

  • The Ultimate Failed Modernist Hyper-Novel: Miklos Szentkuthy, Prae, part one

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Translation Studies
    Subject(s):
    Hungarian literature, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    James Joyce, Szentkuthy, Maximalist fiction, Hungarian/Magyar literature, Modern literature

  • The Material of Writing Before Materiality Theory: On A.R. Ammons's Tape for the Turn of the Year

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature
    Subject(s):
    Material culture, Materialism, Sociology, Poetics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    A.R. Ammons, Postwar poetry, Materiality, Thing theory, New materialism

  • On the Possibility of Teaching the Reader Chinese (I.e., Including a New Language): On Harry Mathews's The Journalist

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature, TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Experimental writing, Harry Mathews, Modern literature, OuLiPo

  • New Ways of Experimenting with Images in Literature: On Christian Bok's Xenotext

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Canadian literature, Literature and science, Science--Sociological aspects
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Word and image, Contemporary poetry, Biology, Classical rhetoric, Classical studies, Sociology of science

  • Misunderstanding the Relation between Literary Modernism and Gender, Identity, and Other Contemporary Concerns: Some Notes on Zadie Smith

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    English literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    contemporary literature, Identity and Otherness, national identity, Zadie Smith, Class, Gender studies

  • Why is Extremely Violent or Disgusting Subject Matter Still Inimical to Literature? Notes on Stokoe's Novel Cows

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Ethics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Matthew Stokoe, Obscenity, Sexuality in literature, Sexuality, Violence, Sociology of gender

  • Deconstructing Danielewski's "Complexity"

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Danielewski, Contemporary fiction, Experimental writing

  • What Counts as Good Writing for Knausgaard?

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Philosophy and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    European literature, Literature, Modern, Norwegian literature, Scandinavian literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, Knausgaard, Norwegian literature, Contemporary fiction, Modern literature

  • On the Limits of Wit and of Plotting in Maximalist Novels: Notes on Sergio De la Pava, Naked Singularity

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature, Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    American literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    contemporary fiction, contemporary literature, Sergio De la Pava, Maximalimalist fiction

  • High Point of the American Experimental Novel: Notes on David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    American Literature, Philosophy, TC Philosophy and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Analysis (Philosophy), Literature--Philosophy, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    ludwig wittgenstein, David Markson, Wittgenstein, Philosophical novel, Analytical philosophy, Literature and philosophy

  • What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Literary Translation, RCWS History and Theory of Composition, TC Philosophy and Literature, Theory and Modernism
    Subject(s):
    French literature, France, Area studies, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    rhetorical analysis, Mathias Enard, French fiction, Contemporary novel, Rhetoric, French studies, Translation studies

  • What is the Genuinely Strange in Literature? Notes on Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Theory and Modernism, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    European literature, Irish literature, Ireland, Area studies, Literature, Modern
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Flann O'Brien, Irish Literature, Irish studies, Modern literature

  • On A Lack of Ambition: Notes on Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Last Wolf

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Hungarian literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Literary criticism, Literary theory

  • A Vertiginous Slide Into Literary Self-Regard: Notes on Enrique Vila-Matas, Because She Never Asked

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Spanish literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Enrique Vila-Matas, Literary criticism, Literary theory

  • What is Psychological Complexity? Notes on Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Russian literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Dostoevsky, Literary criticism, Literary theory

  • Why it is Important That Novels Fail in Many Ways: Notes on Romina Paula, August

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Argentine literature, Literary criticism, Literary theory

  • What Happens When Constrained Writing Doesn't Follow Its Constraints? Notes on Alejandro Zambra, Multiple Choice

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Constrained writing, Literary criticism, Literary theory, OuLiPo

  • A History of the Novel Without Literary Theory: Notes on Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

    Author(s):
    James Elkins
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Historiography
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Literary theory

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