Category: Volume 11 – Number 3 – May 2001
Post-Avant-Gardism: Bob Perelman and the Dialectic of Futural Memory
November 16, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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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 […]
The Politics of Lack
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Lasse Thomassen Department of Government University of Essex lathom@essex.ac.uk Review of: Slavoj Zizek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology.London: Verso, 1999. The Ticklish Subject is a recent work by Slovene philosopher, social theorist, and Lacanian psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek, who has produced books at the pace of more than one per […]
The Novel: Awash in Media Flows
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Rebecca Rauve Department of English Purdue University rrauve1@purdue.edu Review of: John Johnston, Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998. The discovery of electronic means to code and transfer information. An increasingly machinic understanding of consciousness, brought about by advances in neurobiology and genetics. The creation of […]
Paul de Man, Now More than Ever?
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Robert S. Oventile English and Foreign Languages Division Pasadena City College rsoventile@paccd.cc.ca.us Review of: Tom Cohen, et al., eds., Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory.Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. As we confront the triumph of USA-centrism (“institutionalize diversity locally, maximize profit globally”), to trace our historicity, defined by […]
Will Self’s Transgressive Fictions
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Brian Finney Department of English California State University, Long Beach bhfinney@earthlink.net Review of: Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys.London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Where Kingsley Amis has come to be seen as the father figure of British fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, and his son, Martin Amis, has replaced him in […]
Acts of Becoming: Autobiography, Frankenstein, and the Postmodern Body
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Mark Mossman Department of English and Journalism Western Illinois University shourd@gtec.com Introduction My body is a postmodern text. I have had sixteen major surgeries in thirty years and I am about to have a kidney transplant. My left leg has been amputated and I have only four fingers on one hand. I walk with […]
Genesis and Structure and the Object of Postmodernism
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Lee Spinks Department of English Literature University of Edinburgh elilss@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk 1. The Problem of “Genesis” and “Structure” This paper began as an attempt to make sense of the enigma presented by two sentences in a postscript and a paragraph in an interview. In an addendum to his influential The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, […]
Sciences of the Text
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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David Herman Department of English North Carolina State University dherman@unity.ncsu.edu Sometime between 1966 and 1968, Roland Barthes began to lose faith that there might be a science of the text. This, to be sure, was not an individualized crisis of belief; it was part of a wider transformation at work in the history of […]
Serres Reads Pynchon / Pynchon Reads Serres
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Hanjo Berressem Dept. of American Literature and Culture University of Cologne hanjo.berressem@uni-koeln.de Elective affinities. …to fold onto each other two texts that have similar diagrams and thus to open up a field of intricate resonances: Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (New York: Holt, 1997), a text about the genesis of America, and Michel Serres’s […]
The Productive Power of Confessions of Cruelty
September 19, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 11, Number 3, May 2001 |
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Sara L. Knox Humanities Group, School of Cultural Inquiry University of Western Sydney S.Knox@uws.edu.au The ideological work of narratives of extreme violence is the subject of this essay. The apocryphal confessions of Henry Lee Lucas will be examined in order to show that narrative authority has greater power than fact, even where that fact […]