Category: Volume 9 – Number 2 – January 1999
Bibliography of Postmodernism and Critical Theory
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Editors’ Note
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Lisa Brawley lbrawley@kent.edu Stuart Moulthrop samoulthrop@UBmail.ubalt.edu Co-editors With this issue, we introduce an interactive annotated bibliography of postmodernism and critical theory. This bibliography began as a graduate student project in John Unsworth’s seminar on postmodern fiction and theory at the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1998. Students in that seminar […]
The Couch Poetato: Poetry and Television in David McGimpsey’s Lardcake
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Jason Evan Camlot Department of English Stanford University gazon@leland.stanford.edu David McGimpsey, Lardcake.Toronto: ECW, 1997. Twenty years ago–when an attempt to critically disassemble television still seemed like a viable project–social critic Jerry Mander pointed out that this “delivery system of co mmodity life” works exclusively in one direction: “These are not metaphors. There is […]
Living Writing: The Poethics of Hélène Cixous
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Adele Parker Department of Comparative Literature SUNY Binghamton 74613.1577@compuserve.com Hélène Cixous and Mireille Calle-Gruber, Hélène Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing.Trans. Eric Prenowitz. London: Routledge, 1997. Mireille Calle-Gruber laments that Cixous is primarily known in this country for her essays in feminist theory, when many readers who most appreciate her have come to […]
Post-Mortem Photography: Gilles Peress and the Taxonomy of Death
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Francois Debrix Department of International Relations Florida International University debrixf@fiu.edu Gilles Peress, Farewell to Bosnia. New York: Scalo, 1994; and The Silence. New York: Scalo, 1995. Gilles Peress and Eric Stover, The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar. New York: Scalo, 1998. You’re like a living tentacle that’s lifting, reaching around all this death, […]
Cyberdrama in the Twenty-First Century
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Patrick Cook Department of English George Washington University pcook@gwu.edu Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace.New York: The Free Press, 1997. The finest writing on what some call the current communications revolution more often than not has emerged from the keyboards of scholars who combine training in […]
Jameson’s Postmodernism: Version 2.0
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Steven Helmling Department of English University of Delaware helmling@odin.english.udel.edu Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998.Verso: London and New York, 1998. Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity. Verso: London and New York, 1998. Fredric Jameson’s new volume offers itself as a compendium of his “key writings” on postmodernism; […]
Interview with Harryette Mullen
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Cynthia Hogue Department of English Bucknell University hogue@bucknell.edu Born in Alabama, Harryette Mullen grew up in Texas, the daughter of teachers and the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Baptist ministers in the still-segregated south. While completing a B.A. in English at the University of Texas at Austin, she began writing seriously, participating in the burgeoning […]
Celeb-Reliance: Intellectuals, Celebrity, and Upward Mobility
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Bruce Robbins Department of English Rutgers University brobbins@interport.net “Scholars Fear ‘Star’ System May Undercut Their Mission.” Appearing on the front page of the New York Times in December, 1997, this headline advertised to the world the perplexity that has surrounded the emergence of so-called academic stars, both inside the academy and beyond it. Does […]
Rock ‘N’ Theory: Autobiography, Cultural Studies, and the “Death of Rock”
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Robert Miklitsch Department of English Language and Literature Ohio University miklitsc@oak.cats.ohiou.edu The following essay is structured like a record–a 45, to be exact. While the A side provides an anecdotal and autobiographical take on the origins or “birth” of rock (on the assumption that, as Robert Palmer writes, “the best histories are… personal histories, […]
Fleshing the Text: Greenaway’s Pillow Book and the Erasure of the Body
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Paula Willoquet-Maricondi Comparative Literature Department Indiana University pwilloqu@indiana.edu Lifting a brush, a burin, a pen, or a stylus is like releasing a bite or lifting a claw. –Gary Snyder Striving to represent the world, we inevitably forfeit its direct presence. –David Abram Peter Greenaway’s incorporation of other art forms in […]
Derrida, Algeria, and “Structure, Sign, and Play”
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Lee Morrissey Department of English Clemson University lmorris@CLEMSON.EDU More than thirty years after Jacques Derrida first read his essay “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” at the Johns Hopkins Conference on “The Language of Criticism and the Sciences of Man,” it may seem redundant to return to the “originary” […]
Dark Continents: A Critique of Internet Metageographies
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Terry Harpold School of Literature, Communication & Culture Georgia Institute of Technology terry.harpold@lcc.gatech.edu “The Blankest of Blank Spaces”1 Figure 1. “Map of Africa, Showing Its Most Recent Discoveries.” W. Williams, Philadelphia, 1859. [Click on image to see enlarged view] Figure 2. Detail of Figure 1. Note the blank field straddling the equator, labeled […]