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Irrational Bodies, Emerging Beings: Disability And Decoloniality In Anzaldúan Thought, Suzanne Bost
Irrational Bodies, Emerging Beings: Disability And Decoloniality In Anzaldúan Thought, Suzanne Bost
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Gloria Anzaldúa’s writing has been read as decolonial based on her resistance to dominant national, racial, and cultural formations. This essay turns to unpublished documents from the Gloria Anzaldúa archive that are decolonial at a more fundamental level. In autobiographical writings about her own experiences with disability, as well as doodles and figure drawings, the alternate forms of human life that Anzaldúa depicts defy the logics of identification and differentiation that underlie colonial hierarchies. Refusing to fix bodies with labels, Anzaldúa accepted mystical encounters and inter-species minglings without judgment. She experienced her own disabling conditions (including a severe hormone imbalance …
Review Of Piers Plowman And The Books Of Nature By Rebecca Davis, Ian Cornelius
Review Of Piers Plowman And The Books Of Nature By Rebecca Davis, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Susan E. Deskis, Alliterative Proverbs In Medieval England: Language Choice And Literary Meaning, Ian Cornelius
Susan E. Deskis, Alliterative Proverbs In Medieval England: Language Choice And Literary Meaning, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Lay Folks’ Catechism, Alliterative Verse, And Cursus, Ian Cornelius
The Lay Folks’ Catechism, Alliterative Verse, And Cursus, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Lay Folks’ Catechism is an English rendering of injunctions issued in 1357 by John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, setting forth the elements of Christian belief. Ever since W. W. Skeat’s treatments, the Catechism has been placed in the general orbit of alliterative verse, yet closer identifications have proved elusive. The text is now recorded in both The Index of Middle English Verse and The Index of Middle English Prose; the principal stylistic study proposes that John Gaytryge, the author of the English text, may have been influenced by the system of Latin prose rhythm known as cursus. …
Romantic Poetry, Technical Breakthrough And The Changing Editorial Role, Paul Eggert, Desmond A. Schmidt
Romantic Poetry, Technical Breakthrough And The Changing Editorial Role, Paul Eggert, Desmond A. Schmidt
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This report provides (1) a short history of the Charles Harpur Critical Archive (CHCA), which has been in preparation since 2009. Harpur was a predominantly newspaper poet in colonial New South Wales. Writing from the 1830s to the 1860s, he was unable to publish in book form because of the undeveloped state of the local literary publishing scene. Approximately 2700 versions of his 700 poems in newspaper and in manuscript form have been recovered. (2) A summary of the technical approach, a new one for special-purpose digital archives, is provided. The principal innovation is the use of a Multi-Version Document …
Time And Tragedy In Beth Henley’S The Jacksonian, Verna A. Foster
Time And Tragedy In Beth Henley’S The Jacksonian, Verna A. Foster
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In The Jacksonian, an autobiographical play set in Mississippi in 1964, Beth Henley filters a tragic action based on the Aristotelian model through the non-linear memory of Rosy, the play’s narrator and choric figure, as she tries not to remember that her father has killed her mother. Rosy’s father, Bill—a Girardian scapegoat figure contaminated by the racist violence of the community he lives in—is the protagonist of the tragic action. But Henley focuses on its effect on Rosy. A tragic event can occur only in progressive chronological time, but by circling around the murder in her memory, Rosy creates …
Storm Clouds On The Horizon: Feminist Ontologies And The Problem Of Gender, Pamela L. Caughie, Emily Datskou, Rebecca Parker
Storm Clouds On The Horizon: Feminist Ontologies And The Problem Of Gender, Pamela L. Caughie, Emily Datskou, Rebecca Parker
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Feminist digital humanities is no longer focused primarily on recovering and preserving works by women authors. Feminist scholars are currently engaged in changing information design and data visualizations. However, as feminists seek to create new ontologies of gender, they face difficulties posed not only by current encoding standards, but by changing concepts of gender. Can ontologies ever capture the complex, multi-layered, dynamic nature of gender identities? This question is especially challenging when dealing with modernist works that represent gender and sexual identities at the very moment of their emergence as such. Our work on a digital edition and archive of …
Curriculum Vitae: Transsexual Life Writing And The Biofictional Novel, Pamela Caughie
Curriculum Vitae: Transsexual Life Writing And The Biofictional Novel, Pamela Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The complex relation between bio and fiction, life and writing, is central to the project I am currently working on, a comparative scholarly edition of Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex (1933), the life narrative of Lili Elbe, formerly Einar Wegener, the Danish artist who became Lili Elvenes (her legal name) through a series of surgeries in 1930. In chapter six, Andreas Sparre (the fictional name used for Wegener in the narrative) offers to tell his life story to his friends, Niels and Inger, on the night before his first surgery, his last night as …
Conrad's Erotic Women, Joyce Wexler
Conrad's Erotic Women, Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
It is time to correct Joseph Conrad's reputation as a writer who falls short when the subject is women or sex. Praised for his ethical, political, and psychological insight, he is pitied for his love scenes. Writing about The Rescue in 1945, Walter F. Wright generalized, "Conrad usually had trouble with his women characters when they came into the foreground of a story. The themes which he best understood could be illustrated very well through the lives of men" (1945, 216). In 1956 Thomas Moser reinforced Wright's judgment, arguing that the quality of Conrad's later work declined because he tried …
Review Essay: An Edition Of The Archetype Of Piers Plowman B, Ian Cornelius
Review Essay: An Edition Of The Archetype Of Piers Plowman B, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The B-Version Archetype, published on-line and in print by the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (PPEA), deserves close study by all scholars of Langland’s poem. John Burrow, Thorlac Turville-Petre, and their PPEA collaborators have produced an ‘intermittently critical edition’, in approximately the sense called for by Robert Adams in 1992, at the beginning of the PPEA project. On the difficult problem of ‘rolling revision’, Burrow and Turville-Petre adopt an unsatisfactory compromise; they probably also over-estimate the quality of the archetype as a record of Langland’s writing. Yet this edition is the best record now available of the received text of Piers …
Nowhere In The Middle Ages. Karma Lochrie. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270 Pp. $65., Christopher Kendrick
Nowhere In The Middle Ages. Karma Lochrie. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270 Pp. $65., Christopher Kendrick
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A review of Karma Lochrie's book, Nowhere in the Middle Ages.
Beyond Pacifism: Teaching World War I Literature From Left To Right, Joyce Wexler
Beyond Pacifism: Teaching World War I Literature From Left To Right, Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The military historian Yuval Noah Harari accounts for the enduring allure of war by calling attention to a change in soldiers' memoirs that occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. Soldiers began to describe how they felt rather than what they did. Harari introduces the term flesh-witnessing to distinguish inner experience from eyewitness testimony. Flesh-witnesses speak of combat as a transformative and indescribable experience comparable to the sublime. This view is often attributed to militarists, but Harari shows that it also motivates pacifists. Even antiwar arguments like those of Erich Maria Remarque are based on the authority of the flesh-witness. To test …
From The Golden Infection, Laura Goldstein
From The Golden Infection, Laura Goldstein
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Versions And Versioning: A Critical Archive Of D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert
Versions And Versioning: A Critical Archive Of D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The essay gives an account of the dealings of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Works of D. H. Lawrence series with the archive of Lawrence manuscript and other materials distributed in special collections of libraries around the world, collected mainly from the 1950s as his star began to rise. The essay considers the recent arguments of Suzanne Bost, making use of Jacques Derrida’s argument in his essay ‘Archive Fever’, about the inevitably preconditioned interpretation of archival materials (Derrida) and the need to give them air before settling into a program of editorial or other analysis (Bost). The essay …
Under Western Eyes And Terrorism Today, Joyce Wexler
Under Western Eyes And Terrorism Today, Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Although historians and literary critics discount the practical information about terrorism in Under Western Eyes, social science research corroborates Conrad's account of terrorism and counter-terrorism in nineteenth-century Russia. According to this research, terrorists are indistinguishable from the general population until they decide to join a terrorist group, and the best way to prevent terrorism is to study the specific mindset of terrorist groups. The novel animates these findings in its depiction of fundamental similarities between the bomber and the informer. Haldin and Razumov pursue community as well as autonomy, although their paths are quite different. The novel not only …
The “Vagabond Black” Renaissance, Pamela L. Caughie
The “Vagabond Black” Renaissance, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A paper presented as part of the "The Harlem Renaissance after the Transnational Turn" panel at the Modern Language Association Convention, January 2017.
Grammars And Rhetorics, Ian Cornelius
Grammars And Rhetorics, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Grammar and rhetoric were the disciplines charged with teaching correct and effective use of language in antiquity. In the Middle Ages, these disciplines served to maintain Latin as a language of culture, religion, and administration over much of Europe. Grammatical studies flourished in medieval England following the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Subsequent developments in grammatical and rhetorical studies in Britain in the Middle Ages track deep changes in the social conditioning of literacy and social demands upon literacy. Among the medieval English innovations in these disciplines were the teaching of Latin as a foreign language, the cultural accommodation …
The Merchant Of Venice In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
The Merchant Of Venice In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Verna Foster, City Desk 400 staff member, reviews Shakespeare's Globe's 2016 production of The Merchant of Venice.
Ear To The Battleground: New Books On Hearing What Is Lost, Howard S. Axelrod
Ear To The Battleground: New Books On Hearing What Is Lost, Howard S. Axelrod
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Of the five senses, vision tends to get the glory. We hail great innovators as visionary, praise writers for their insight, and thank friends for offering perspective. We call prophets seers, but also admire daily perspicacity and seek to avoid myopia and blind spots. Just consider the words spectacles and spectacular, and you catch a glimpse—not a whisper, a glimpse—of the divergence between vision in the optometrist’s office and vision in our cultural construction of it. But while vision gets the glory, hearing has our trust. We want justice to be blind during court hearings. In times of …
Ellen Burton Harrington. Conrad's Sensational Heroines: Gender And Representation In The Late Fiction Of Joseph Conrad. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 173 Pp. Isbn: 9783319632964., Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Othello In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
Othello In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Verna Foster, City Desk 400 staff member, reviews a performance of Othello at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Socialism And Fantasy: China Miéville’S Fables Of Race And Class, Christopher Kendrick
Socialism And Fantasy: China Miéville’S Fables Of Race And Class, Christopher Kendrick
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Ite Inflammate Omnia: Setting The World On Fire With Learning, Mark Bosco, Sj
Ite Inflammate Omnia: Setting The World On Fire With Learning, Mark Bosco, Sj
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Tradition, Innovation, And The Value Of The Liberal Arts, Paul Jay
Tradition, Innovation, And The Value Of The Liberal Arts, Paul Jay
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
My main message about defending the humanities and liberal arts is that divided we lose. Divided we lose. What's great about our disciplines, collectively, is the way in which they preserve and value the past, but in a context in which that past is subject to reflective and constructive critique, so that the ways in which we think about what constitutes the human keeps changing, and the collection of texts, ideas, historical events, material realities, and cultural forms we discuss with our students keeps expanding as well. The liberal arts are living arts. They are about both the perpetuation and …
Gower And The Peasants’ Revolt, Ian Cornelius
Gower And The Peasants’ Revolt, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay examines the moral and political thought of John Gower's poem on the English Rising of 1381, situating it within three contrastive fields: Gower’s moral project, his Virgilian intertext, and the practices of moral community employed by the rebels of 1381.
Messy Archives And Materials That Matter: Making Knowledge With The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers, Suzanne Bost
Messy Archives And Materials That Matter: Making Knowledge With The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers, Suzanne Bost
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this essay, I show how recognizing the multiple material actants at work in an archive transforms research, in general, and Anzaldúan studies, in particular. For unraveling this new way of thinking about archival work, I borrow a genre Anzaldúa developed throughout her career: “ autohistoria- teoría . . . a personal essay that theorizes” (“now” 578n). I begin with my own experiences with the particular materials of particular archives and then move outward to develop a theory of knowledge production that is built on the accidents, messes, and intrusions that disrupted my conventional research plan. Perhaps this is what …
Grid, Laura Goldstein
Grid, Laura Goldstein
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Modernist Novel In Its Contemporaneity, Pamela L. Caughie
The Modernist Novel In Its Contemporaneity, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Through the writings of Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Nella Larsen, this chapter considers the temporality of the now, the modernist novel in its contemporaneity, to show how the ambient environment of daily life takes shape in, and shapes, the modernist novel.
White Woods And Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen Rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire, Verna Foster
White Woods And Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen Rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire, Verna Foster
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The film's reviewers almost invariably commented on the parallels with Streetcar, many noting, too, that Cate Blanchett, who plays the title character, Jasmine, had also successfully played Blanche Dubois in Liv Ullmann's 2009 production of the play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.2 But for all the similarities in character types and plot structure and for all the allusions to specific lines in Streetcar, the themes of Blue Jasmine are very different from those of Williams's play because the story that Allen tells also channels the fall of Bernie Madoff and his wife, Ruth. The flashbacks are a filmic equivalent …
How Not To Defend The Liberal Arts, Paul Jay
How Not To Defend The Liberal Arts, Paul Jay
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
It's a myth that the sciences have theories and methods and the humanities don't, and it's a mistake to scapegoat theory and professionalization for the current plight of the humanities and liberal arts.