Towards The Publisher-Function Of The Independent Press: Authorship And Experimentation In The Semiotext(E) Oeuvre,
2026
California State University - San Bernardino
Towards The Publisher-Function Of The Independent Press: Authorship And Experimentation In The Semiotext(E) Oeuvre, Gilbert Aguirre
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
This project is a contribution to debates on authorship, expanding Foucault’s theorization of the author as a function of discourse into the field of creative production by proposing my theory of the publisher-function. Here, I highlight the role of the publisher in shaping literary discourse using avant-garde publishing house Semiotext(e). I analyze two experimental publications to illustrate how this publisher’s role in editing and curating their booklist—or, as I propose we call it, their oeuvre—compounds with the fact of publication to create a new kind of authorial role. This is done through emphasizing the paratexts, elements of design, and literary …
Bergsonian Blend: Subjective Temporality Within Modernist Aesthetics Of Mental Illness,
2026
East Tennessee State University
Bergsonian Blend: Subjective Temporality Within Modernist Aesthetics Of Mental Illness, Lydia Victoria Gervais
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Henri Bergson was a modernist French philosopher who wrote extensively on the topic of the lived experience of time, which he called durée, or duration. His contemporary, Sigmund Freud, was developing psychoanalytic theory in a growing field of psychological study, which serves as a prominent ancestor to modern psychiatry and current psychoanalytical literary studies. Fiction writers of the 1900s absorbed the zeitgeist of melded chronology and consciousness, interweaving themes of time and trauma in their works. Utilizing Henri Bergson’s durée as a philosophical framework, I examine the moralization of time-consciousness in connection with mental illness and investigate representations of …
William Hope Hodgson And The Rise Of The Weird: Possibilities Of The Dark By Timothy S. Murphy,
2026
Florida Atlantic University
William Hope Hodgson And The Rise Of The Weird: Possibilities Of The Dark By Timothy S. Murphy, Timothy R. Granger
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
Russell Hoban: Faithful To The Strange By Graeme Wend-Walker,
2026
NYU
Russell Hoban: Faithful To The Strange By Graeme Wend-Walker, Nicholas Birns
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
This is a review of David Wend-Walker's critical book on the fiction of Russell Hoban.
The Alembic - International Literary Journal,
2026
Providence College
The Alembic - International Literary Journal, Sara Mackinnon, Finn Heller, Sarah Debian, Kate Blackwell
English Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.
On The Sunny Side Of The Street: An Original Novel,
2026
Providence College
On The Sunny Side Of The Street: An Original Novel, Alyssa Caneira
English Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.
‘“We Was Girls Together”’: Black Girlhood And Homoeroticism In Toni Morrison’S Sula,
2026
University of South Carolina
‘“We Was Girls Together”’: Black Girlhood And Homoeroticism In Toni Morrison’S Sula, Summer A. Still
Caroliniana Undergraduate Research Journal
This paper examines Toni Morrison’s Sula through the intertwined frameworks of Black girlhood and homoeroticism, with a focus on the friendship between Sula Peace and Nel Wright. By analyzing moments of intimacy, dreams, and kinship terminology, I argue that Morrison portrays their bond as both a survival mechanism against oppressive social structures and as a site where homoerotic desire emerges. Concepts such as “fictive kin,” “chosen kin,” and “quare” are used to show how Morrison complicates traditional categories of friendship and queerness in American literature. Ultimately, the novel positions Sula and Nel’s relationship as one of enduring love that exceeds …
Queer Okayness & The Modernist Influence: A New Form Of Queer Poetics In Ocean Vuong’S Night Sky With Exit Wounds,
2026
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
Queer Okayness & The Modernist Influence: A New Form Of Queer Poetics In Ocean Vuong’S Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Sophia Behnke
Audre Lorde Prize
This paper analyzes poems from Ocean Vuong's 2016 debut collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, as a contemporary evolution of queer modernist poetics from the early twentieth century. Using conceptual frameworks from Sara Ahmed and Audre Lorde, the author argues for the cultural power of poetics as an inherently queer art form which artists are constantly redefining. By studying how prominent lesbian and queer modernists disrupted heteronormative ideals through non-conformist poetic strategies, the author develops a comparison to Vuong's work as a contemporary queer poet who both draws from past forms and develops a more nuanced understanding of queerness …
Separate But Found: An Ontological Analysis Of Toni Morrison's Beloved,
2026
St. Mary's University
Separate But Found: An Ontological Analysis Of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Byron Haynes
Posters - 2026
In Toni Morrison's Beloved, separation becomes the ideal solution for African American women to recover their humanity and build a future. These women understandably harbor for their oppressor and would be unable to foster a coexistence with them, given their suffering after being the victims of sexual assault, lynchings, hard labor, substandard living circumstances, and death regularly. By illustrating the methodical methods in which women are dehumanized under Whiteness, this essay examines how each woman reclaims their humanity through the separation of Whiteness in their lives through Baby Suggs’s preaching, Sethe’s choice to kill her daughter, Denver’s exploration of reality …
Hot Ears,
2026
University of Mississippi
Hot Ears, Anna Thomas
Landshark Literary Review
A short creative non-fiction piece about the daily battle of living with depression. This work explores the diagnosis of depression through a singular moment in time, taking a scene and expanding it into it's higher meaning. This piece also develops part of the support system an individual with depression relies on, as well as an intimate relationship between college students.
Review Of Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, And The Canon,
2026
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Review Of Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, And The Canon, Tracy A. Fernandez Rysavy
Feminist Pedagogy
No abstract provided.
How Questions Of Editing Shape Our Learning: Introducing Students To Digital Manuscripts,
2026
Lewis-Clark State College
How Questions Of Editing Shape Our Learning: Introducing Students To Digital Manuscripts, Marlowe Daly-Galeano
Feminist Pedagogy
This article presents a pedagogical approach for introducing literature students to digital manuscripts and editorial processes through hands-on engagement with archival materials. The teaching activity centers on May Alcott Nieriker's essay "London Bridges," using four different versions of the text—two handwritten manuscripts, one nineteenth-century periodical publication, and one contemporary republication—to illuminate how editorial decisions shape literary canons and student learning. The four-part assignment integrates literary analysis, manuscript transcription, variant identification, and editorial decision-making to help students understand the material conditions that determine which texts survive and become part of academic curricula. Through this assignment, students gain critical insights into the …
"In Her Own Words: Annotating A 19th-Century Southwest Florida Diary",
2026
Florida Gulf Coast University
"In Her Own Words: Annotating A 19th-Century Southwest Florida Diary", Jordan L. Von Cannon
Feminist Pedagogy
No abstract provided.
A Godless Greek Mythology: The Desecration Of Greek Mythology For Children,
2026
Gettysburg College
A Godless Greek Mythology: The Desecration Of Greek Mythology For Children, Vanessa Russo
CAFE Symposium 2026
This project analyzes how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1851) socialized young American readers by immersing them in a fictitious New England Utopia. While some scholars assert that Wonder Book represents a shift from the didactic nature of nineteenth century children's literature to a style that prioritized entertainment and fostered imaginative play, Hawthorne’s rewriting, or rather his desecration, of six classic Greek Myths certainly had moral undertones that reaffirmed a simplistic Puritan ideal: a pure relationship with the Christian God, women embracing the ideology of the cult of domesticity and staying out of the political sphere, …
Conspicuous Technique: Black Avant-Garde Poetry And The Politics Of Aesthetics,
2026
CUNY Graduate Center
Conspicuous Technique: Black Avant-Garde Poetry And The Politics Of Aesthetics, Ryan Gato
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This study is comprised of two essays on the politics of aesthetics in postwar American black experimental poetry. Within the domain of contemporary poetry scholarship, this study serves three distinct yet interrelated purposes: 1.) to intervene within ongoing debates about the relation—or purported lack thereof—between black artistic practices and those of the historic and American avant-gardes by emphasizing the politics of aesthetics; 2.) to offer a critique of the usage of the discourses of postmodernism and of black aesthetics in the field by elucidating the historicity of their conceptual frameworks; and 3.) to provide an alternative to contemporary scholarship’s narrow …
Field Trip,
2026
The University of San Francisco
Field Trip, Art Hill
Ontario Review
ART HILL of Birmingham, Michigan is the author of an essay on Malcolm Lowry which appeared in a recent issue of Canadian Literature.
Look To Thyself: Ignatow's Notebooks,
2026
The University of San Francisco
Look To Thyself: Ignatow's Notebooks, Robert Leiter
Ontario Review
ROBERT LEITER is a free-lance writer and critic living in Philadelphia. His work has recently appeared in The Nation, Commonweal, Film Heritage, and The New Republic.
A True Lyric Poet: Marya Zaturenska,
2026
The University of San Francisco
A True Lyric Poet: Marya Zaturenska, Robert Phillips
Ontario Review
ROBERT PHILLIPS, poet, fiction writer, and critic, has been book review editor of Modem Poetry Studies and has contributed essays and reviews to numerous periodicals. His books include Denton Welch, Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dreamchild, and The Confes sional Poets. He lives in Katonah, New York.
A North American Vistion: Clark Blaise's Tribal Justice,
2026
The University of San Francisco
A North American Vistion: Clark Blaise's Tribal Justice, Richard Hornsey
Ontario Review
RICHARD HORNSEY received his Ph.D. in Canadian Literature from the University of Alberta. His poems have appeared in many Canadian magazines including The Canadian Forum, Fiddlehead, and The University of Windsor Review as well as in Poetry Australia. His first book of poetry, Going In, was published in 1972 and he is currently completing a second. He teaches at the University of Windsor.
Five Poets From Five Countries,
2026
The University of San Francisco
Five Poets From Five Countries, Tom Marshall
Ontario Review
TOM MARSHALL, poetry editor of The Canadian Forum, has published books on A. M . Klein and D. H . Lawrence. His third collection of poetry, The Earth-Book, was published last fall by Oberon Press. He teaches at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
