Monthly Archives: November 2013

If You Build It, They Will Come

November 30, 2013 Posted by Webmaster under Volume 09, Number 3, May 1999

Brian Morris Department of English with Cultural Studies University of Melbourne b.morris@english.unimelb.edu.au   John Hannigan, Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis. London: Routledge, 1998.   Last year I found myself staggering down the very long sidewalk of the Las Vegas Strip in a somewhat disoriented state, an Antipodean on his first trip […]

The Truth About Pina Bausch: Nature and Fantasy in Carnations

November 25, 2013 Posted by Webmaster under Volume 10, Number 2, January 2000

Lynn Houston Department of English Arizona State University lynnmhouston@yahoo.com   Pina Bausch, Carnations. Perf. Tanztheater Wuppertal. Gammage Auditorium, Tempe. 22 October 1999.   Freud’s elision of body-mind also suggests that the private mental space accorded to “the self” on modern models of identity, the space of fantasy, is produced to some extent by the body’s […]

Post-Avant-Gardism: Bob Perelman and the Dialectic of Futural Memory

November 16, 2013 Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001

Joel Nickels English Department University of California, Berkeley joeln@uclink4.berkeley.edu   Review of: Bob Perelman, The Future of Memory. New York: Roof Books, 1998.   There is a play on words somewhere in the title of Bob Perelman’s recent book of new poems, but what exactly is the substance and import of this wordplay? The Future […]

“Hip Librarians, Dweeb Chic: Romances of the Archive.” A review of Suzanne Keen. Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001.

November 10, 2013 Posted by Webmaster under Volume 13, Number 1, September 2002

Amy J. Elias Department of English University of Tennessee aelias2@utk.edu   Suzanne Keen. Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001.   “Understanding, which separates men from brutes,” writes Suzanne Keen of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, “amounts to an enumeration of debts” (69). This statement asserts that in […]