Category: Volume 2 – Number 1 – September 1991
Anouncements & Advertisements
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Every issue of Postmodern Culture will carry notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcments, up to 250 words, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. Send anouncements and advertisements to: pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Journal and Book Announcements: 1) _Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology_ 2) […]
Marketing / Reading Males
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Charles Stivale Wayne State University <cstival@cms.cc.wayne.edu> Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden, eds. Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism. New York: Routledge, 1990. Laura Claridge and Elizabeth Langland, eds. Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990. While pondering different lines of approach for […]
Privacy And Pleasure: Edward Said on Music
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Dan Miller North Carolina State University <dcmeg@ncsuvm> Said, Edward W. Musical Elaborations. New York: Columbia UP, 1991. 109 pp. $19.95. Edward Said’s 1989 Wellek Library Lectures in Critical Theory at the University of California at Irvine, published as Musical Elaborations, are meditations on classical music in the Western tradition. They confront a sharp […]
Confronting Heidegger
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Gerry O’Sullivan University of Pennsylvania Zimmerman, Michael. Heidegger’s Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, Art. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990. 306 pp. In the wake of the “affaire Heidegger,” prompted by the publication in 1987 of Victor Farias’s Heidegger et le nazisme, Michael Zimmerman poses a fundamental question in his recent book, Heidegger’s Confrontation with […]
Spew: The Queer Punk Convention
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 02, Number 1, September 1991 |
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Bill Hsu University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana <hsu@csrd.uiuc.edu> SPEW. The first queer punk fanzine convention. May 25 1991. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago. “NO panels. NO workshops. NO keynote address. VANLOADS of noisy dykes and fags.” While hardcore in the early ’80s was mostly a straight white male phenomenon, gender-bending had often been […]
Play It Again, Pac-Man
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Charles Bernstein State University of New York at Albany Your quarter rolls into the slot and you are tossed, suddenly and as if without warning, into a world of controllable danger. Your “man” is under attack and you must simulate his defense, lest humanity perish and another quarter is required to renew the quest. […]
A Dialogue on Dialogue, Part I
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Georg Mannejc, Anne Mack, J.J. Rome, Joanne McGrem, and Jerome McGann University of Virginia jjm2f@prime.acc.virginia.edu Gilbert: Dialogue . . . can never lose for the thinker its attraction as a mode of expression. By its means he can both reveal and conceal himself . . . . By its means he can exhibit the […]
“A Suspension Forever at the Hinge of Doubt”: The Reader-trap Of Bianca In Gravity’s Rainbow
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Bernard Duyfhuizen Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire <pnotesbd@uwec> No matter how much we work on Gravity’s Rainbow, our most important interpretive discovery will be that it resists analysis–that is, being broken down into distinct units of meaning. To talk about Bianca is to talk about Ilse and Gottfried; to try to describe the Zone is […]
Derek Walcott and the Poetics of “Transport”
September 26, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 02, Number 1, September 1991 |
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Rei Terada University of Michigan at Ann Arbor <rei.terada@um.cc.umich.edu> Most North American critics and reviewers have come to see Derek Walcott as a deservedly celebrated poet, “natural, worldly, and accomplished” (Vendler, 26).1 Yet this very appreciation of the orthodox values of Walcott’s work–its learning, assurance, and metrical proficiency–has obstructed consideration of Walcott’s place in […]
Notes Toward an Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Text, “The Ends of Print Culture” (a work in progress)
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Michael Joyce Center for Narrative and Technology, Jackson, MI <Michael_Joyce@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU> Adapted from a talk originally given at the Computers and the Human Conversation Conference, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, March 16, 1991 For a period of time last year on each end of our town, like compass points, there was a mausoleum […]
The Marginalization of Poetry
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Bob Perelman University of Pennsylvania bperelme@pennsas If poems are eternal occasions, then the pre-eternal context for the following was a panel on “The Marginalization of Poetry” at the American Comp. Lit. Conference in San Diego, on February 8, 1991, at 2:30 P.M.: “The Marginalization of Poetry”–it almost goes without saying. Jack Spicer wrote, “No one […]
Literary Ecology and Postmodernity in Thomas Sanchez’s Mile Zero and Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland
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Daniel R. White University of Central Florida <fdwhite@ucf1vm> Images are more real than anyone could have supposed. And just because they are an unlimited resource, one that cannot be exhausted by consumerist waste, there is all the more reason to apply the conservationist remedy. If there can be a better way for the real […]