Ethos: A Computational Framework For Material Culture Research,
2026
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ethos: A Computational Framework For Material Culture Research, Chelsea L. Grafe
Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Museum catalog records make large collections searchable, but they do not always preserve the reasoning behind the claims they contain. A record may present a quilt's identity as settled while leaving the reasoning behind that claim invisible, making it difficult for later researchers to check, question, or reuse. This project asks whether museum catalog data can be analyzed in a way that keeps each analytical claim connected to the evidence that supports it. To test this question, the project applies a material-first computational framework named Ethos. Ethos formalizes an object-centered inquiry sequence in which material dependencies establish where analysis begins …
Regarding World(S): A Review Of Elisha Cohn’S Milieu: A Creaturely Theory Of The Contemporary Novel (2025) And Daniel Wright’S The Grounds Of The Novel (2024),
2026
Ithaca College
Regarding World(S): A Review Of Elisha Cohn’S Milieu: A Creaturely Theory Of The Contemporary Novel (2025) And Daniel Wright’S The Grounds Of The Novel (2024), Katarzyna Bartoszyńska
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
World Literature According To Its Poster Children,
2026
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
World Literature According To Its Poster Children, Jernej Habjan
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Some of the most influential pronouncements on world literature have been made by the kind of authors who are most likely to emerge as representatives of world literature once we agree on a definition, including Goethe, the young Marx, Tagore, Gorky, Hesse, Kundera, and the distinguished signatories of the manifesto for a world-literature in French. Breaking out of this vicious circle by referring to the authority of pure theorists of world literature is not the solution, as this would only pull us into a new vicious circle where most of these theorists would mostly remind us of the names that …
A Crisis For Utopia: Jameson, The Collective, And The Future Of World Literature,
2026
University of the Pacific
A Crisis For Utopia: Jameson, The Collective, And The Future Of World Literature, Trevor Jackson
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Working with Fredric Jameson’s influential discussions of utopia and world literature, the essay suggests that the prospect of utopia is frightening and also possibly boring insofar as it threatens to drain away the already waning possibility of experience in a postmodern, globalized world. In this world, resentment of the present seems to go hand in hand with a nostalgia for a fictitious past, underscoring the difficulty of conceptualizing new social, cultural, and economic arrangements. Viewing world literature as a possible source of a new utopian thought, a utopia unlimited to its contemporary dystopian guises, the essay retraces Jameson’s pronouncements on …
The Proletarian Moment In World Literature,
2026
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Proletarian Moment In World Literature, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
During the interwar period (1918–1939), an international literary movement emerged in relation to internationalist and socialist politics and political struggles. Writers around the world saw themselves as contributors to a new proletarian moment within the historical unfolding of world literature. This movement was international, and writers situated on the peripheries of both the capitalist core and the emerging socialist world looked toward revolutionary Russia and other centers of the socialist world. This paper focuses on three such authors, the American Richard Wright, the Argentinian Roberto Arlt, and the Icelander Halldór Laxness. During the interwar period, all three were involved in …
An Arc Stretched Between East And West: World (Or Universal?) Literature In Maxim Gorky’S Publishing Utopias,
2026
University of Udine
An Arc Stretched Between East And West: World (Or Universal?) Literature In Maxim Gorky’S Publishing Utopias, Francesca Lazzarin
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
The Vsemirnaia Literatura publishing house was founded in Petrograd by Maxim Gorky less than a year after the October Revolution. Aligned with the objectives of the new regime, its mission was to translate and publish a substantial body of European and Asian poetry and prose, thereby contributing to the broad cultural education of the emerging Soviet generations. These ambitions clearly reflect a key element of Gorky’s conception of culture as well: for Gorky, culture in its broadest sense (encompassing literature, art, music, and science) had the potential to unite humanity under the ideals of peace and harmony. Within this new …
Introduction: World Literature As World Crisis,
2026
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Introduction: World Literature As World Crisis, Jernej Habjan
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Marble Bodies: Sculpture, Gender, Race, And Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature,
2026
Syracuse University
Marble Bodies: Sculpture, Gender, Race, And Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, Madeline Olley
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Marble Bodies reads across both literary texts and sculptures to ask how sculptural logic operates across forms to reveal what sculptors and sculpture offer the field of nineteenth-century U.S. literary studies—formally, theoretically, and methodologically. It argues that sculpture functions not merely as subject matter within nineteenth-century American literature but as an interpretive framework that reveals how bodies are objectified, valued, and assigned cultural meaning. With attention to the formal and material properties of sculpture—stillness, smoothness, and duration—and to the questions of ideality, valuation, and preservation that sculpture generates, this dissertation shows how nineteenth-century writers and artists found in those properties …
Framing Tragedy: Discourse And Influence In Us Media Coverage Of The 1994 Rwanda Genocide,
2026
University of Colorado
Framing Tragedy: Discourse And Influence In Us Media Coverage Of The 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Andrew P. Young
Journal of 20th Century Media History
There is little doubt as to the mark left by the 1994 Rwandan genocide on historical discourse and perhaps even the American cultural consciousness. U.S. evening news broadcasts carried images of suffering and death into homes across the US, and in the process made Rwanda the site of one of the most recognized traumas in human history. While cultural proximity in mass media coverage played a role, the characterization of media coverage of the genocide, often defined in the press as explicit and constant, requires analysis. This project analyzes US evening network news broadcasts to address the actualities and implications …
[De]Constructing Jimmy's Grin: Doing Cultural Studies Through The Lens Of Boston Globe Editorial Cartoonist Paul Szep's Showcase Of Carter's White House Campaign,
2026
University of Tennessee- Knoxville
[De]Constructing Jimmy's Grin: Doing Cultural Studies Through The Lens Of Boston Globe Editorial Cartoonist Paul Szep's Showcase Of Carter's White House Campaign, Lori Amber Roessner
Journal of 20th Century Media History
Heeding journalism historians Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennan’s call for inquiries that provide a new understanding of historical working conditions, this study explored the production of a sample of Szep’s editorial cartoons that surrounded Jimmy Carter’s campaign and presidency from 1976 to 1980. In particular, the manuscript considered the historical conditions and personal circumstances that influenced the cultural production of Szep’s body of work surrounding Jimmy Carter’s presidency; representations of Carter and his White House campaign in the sample of 20 editorial cartoons produced by Szep; moments of consumption by active Boston Globe audiences; the practice of identity [de]construction related …
Book Review: Yamin Hu, The Contemporary Construction Of The Chinese Form Of Marxist Literary Criticism ,
2026
University of New South Wales
Book Review: Yamin Hu, The Contemporary Construction Of The Chinese Form Of Marxist Literary Criticism , Paul R. Patton
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Worldbuilding,
2026
Trent University
Worldbuilding, Brent Ryan Bellamy
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Substantialism,
2026
University of Calgary
Substantialism, David Janzen
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Style,
2026
Simon Fraser University
Style, Clint Burnham
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Spectrality,
2026
Goethe University Frankfurt
Spectrality, Marlon Lieber
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Secularization,
2026
University of California, Berkeley
Secularization, Jake Orbison
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Rhetoric,
2026
King's College London
Rhetoric, Fintan Calpin
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Representation,
2026
San Francisco State University
Representation, Douglas Spielman
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Real,
2026
University of California, Berkeley
Real, Colleen Lye, Rumur Dowling
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Praxis,
2026
Aarhus University
Praxis, Tobias Dias
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
