Department of English Publications

Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, AIDS

Steven Bruhm — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:50:01 PST

All is True (Henry VIII): The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII

Steven Bruhm — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:47:20 PST

Cell Phones from Hell

Steven Bruhm — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:17:45 PST

Recently Hollywood has remade a number of movies from the 1970s, movies in which young women are terrorized by a murderer calling from a telephone located elsewhere in the house. In the remakes, the murderer uses a cell phone, which effectively destroys the sense of space and distance on which earlier horror films were predicated. In one way, these films gesture to Jean Baudrillard's idea of “the transparency of evil,” in that they depict the collapse between the speaking self and the technologies of monstrosity against which the self might be defined. In another way, though, the films proliferate sites of desire from which the telephonic subject searches for connection, even if that connection is impossible to establish. This essay reads the original and the remade When a Stranger Calls and Black Christmas through Baudrillard and Georges Bataille. Ultimately, it finds in contemporary telephonic horror a complex deracination of the desiring subject from its own speaking self.

Real Money and Romanticism

Matthew Rowlinson — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:36:42 PDT

"Real Money and Romanticism interprets poetry and fiction by Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Charles Dickens in the context of changes in the British monetary system and in the broader economy during the early nineteenth century. In this period modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established; Matthew Rowlinson describes the consequent changes in relations between writers and publishers and shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture, and labor. A fresh and radically different contribution to the growing field of inquiry into the 'economics' of literature, this is an ingenious and challenging reading of Romantic discourse from the point of view of monetary theory and history." (From online book description)

John McGahern and the Art of Memory

Dermot McCarthy — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:28:52 PDT

"In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir, he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dimension of his fiction, a dimension he had hitherto either denied or mystified. Taking Memoir as a paradigmatic work of memory, confession, and imaginative recovery, this book is a close reading of McGahern's novels that discovers his narrative poiesis in both the fiction and the memoir to be a single, continuous, and coherent mythopoeic project concealed within the career of a novelist writing ostensibly in the realist tradition of modern Irish fiction. McGahern's total body of work centres around the experiences of loss, memory, and imaginative recovery. To read his fiction as an art of memory is to recognize how he used story-telling to confront the extended grief and anger that blighted his early life and that shaped his sense of self and world. It is also to understand how he gradually, painfully and honestly wrote his way out of the darkness and despair of the early work into the luminous celebration of life and the world in his great last novel That They May Face the Rising Sun." (From online book synopsis)

Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views

Michael Groden — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:21:44 PDT

"Bringing together twelve essays in three areas of Joyce criticism and scholarship, this refreshing book offers various personal adventures from a life lived with Joyce’s work. In a manner that is at once modest, rigorous, and accessible, Ulysses in Focus engagingly connects these scholarly developments and contretemps to the author's personal history and provides fascinating new genetic readings of several episodes of Ulysses that advance our understanding of the novel’s composition." (From online book description)

Óttarr svarti

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:38 PDT

Liðsmannaflokkr

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:36 PDT

Lausavísur

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:33 PDT

Gunnlaugr ormstunga

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:30 PDT

Darraðarljóð

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:28 PDT

Skaldic Praise Poetry as a Marginal Form

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:25 PDT

Verses and Prose in Gunnlaugs saga

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:23 PDT

The Song of the Valkyries

Russell Poole — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:19 PDT

Variants and Variability in the Text of Egill’s Höfuðlausn

Russell Poole — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:30:47 PDT

Sighvatr Þórðarson

Russell Poole — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:30:44 PDT

Psycholinguistic Principles in Skaldic Repetition

Russell Poole — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:11:10 PDT

Constructions of Fate in Victorian Literature and Philology

Russell Poole — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:11:07 PDT

Tofu, Green Tea, and Alzheimer’s Disease: Critical Thinking as Quantitative Literacy in First-Year Composition for Information and Mathematical Science Students

Russell Poole et al. — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:49:06 PDT

Reasons for Rhyme, Alliteration, and Wordplay: A Psycholinguistic Look at Poetic Composition and Reception

Russell Poole — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:08:53 PDT