Category: Volume 6 – Number 3 – May 1996
Selected Letters from Readers
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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PMC Reader’s Report on PMC 6.2 Like every other issue. People act before they think. the history of acrylic can be told in terms other than analysis: polymerization of substance is not a fictive lacquer but an immanent rechaining of actual potential. see the movie stalingrad. war indeed. These comments […]
Schama and the New Histories of Landscape
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Mark Shadle Eastern Oregon State College mshadle@eosc.osshe.edu Simon Schama. Landscape and Memory. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1995. Mythology is the ghost of concrete meaning. — Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction Lithuanian Bison protected so they could be annihilated for “sport” by Goring as an incarnation of Tacitus’s transformed “wild man” of […]
Bisexuals, Cyborgs, and Chaos
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Kelly Cresap University of Virginia kmc2f@virginia.edu Marjorie Garber. Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. Is it possible to conceive of bisexuality without resorting to binary logic? The very nomenclature of bisexual seems to declare faith in a certain form of dualism. Where, after […]
The Problem of Strategy: How to Read Race, Gender, and Class in the Colonial Context
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Anjali Arondekar Department of English University of Pennsylvania arondeka@dept.english.upenn.edu Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest.New York: Routledge, 1995. Strategy works through a persistent (de)constructive critique of the theoretical. “Strategy” is an embattled concept-metaphor and unlike “theory,” its antecedents are not disinterested and universal. “Usually, an artifice or […]
Personal Effects, Public Effects, Special Effects: Institutionalizing American Poetry
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Joe Amato Lewis Department of Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology amato@charlie.cns.iit.edu Jed Rasula. The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990.National Council of Teachers of English. 639 pp. ISBN 0-8141-0137-2. Hardcover $42.95. Judging by its sheer heft, its blurbs, and its bulk of carefully-detailed appendices, one might expect that The American Poetry Wax […]
A Millennial Poetics
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Kenneth Sherwood Department of English State Department of New York at Buffalo sherwood@acsu.buffalo.edu Rothenberg, Jerome and Pierre Joris, eds. Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Volume one: From Fin-de Siècle to Negritude).Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1995. Pp.xxvii + 811; 35 illustrations. Paper, […]
Ends and Means: Theorizing Apocalypse in the 1990’s
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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James Berger George Mason University jberger@gmu.edu Lee Quinby. Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism.Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1994. Stephen D. O’Leary. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. Richard Dellamora. Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending. New Brunswick: […]
The Slow Apocalypse: A Gradualistic Theory of The World’s Demise
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Andrew McMurry Indiana University, Bloomington jmcmurry@mach1.wlu.ca The startling calamity. What is the startling calamity? How will you comprehend what the startling calamity is? — Al-Qur’än Were you expecting the sun to wink out, the heavens to open, the beast loose upon the earth? Or maybe you imagined a Ragnarok of more cosmopolitan […]
My Name in Water, Adumbration, Offering, and Depth Perception
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Cory Brown Ithaca College cbrown@ithaca.edu My Name in Water The kids are in the bathtub screaming and splashing, my wife on the phone discussing a book on Australian aborigines, whether we should even bother reading literature anymore, and you would think by the way I’m scribbling in the corner I was trying to write my […]
Youngest Brother of Brothers
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Chris Semansky University of Missouri-Columbia writcks@showme.missouri.edu Ihit a kid. He’s about eight, and the better part of his right ear has been ripped off by the windshield. He’s lying in the road, moaning, his legs jerking like he’s underwater.A crisis becomes a wonderful moment to free oneself from ideas of “correctness,” “objectivity,” “acceptance,” and redesign, […]
HYPERWEB
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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This is an experimental hypertext site using HTML. It is an essay about what hypertext is, and it performs what it says. While making use of various images it is text driven, and like all such projects is a combination of the personal, the contingent, and the theoretical. It […]
The Intimate Alterity of the Real A Response to Reader Commentary on “History and the Real” (PMC v.5 n.2)
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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To: Dr. Shepherdson From: hescobar.datasys.com.mx (Hector Escobar Sotomayor) Subject: Comments on your paper in Internet about Foucault and Lacan Dear Dr. Shepherdson: I’m a Mexican student of Philosophy and now I’m working on my thesis devoted to an archaeological study of Psychology, considering the relation Foucault-Lacan so I’d like […]
Male Pro-Feminism and the Masculinist Gigantism of Gravity’s Rainbow
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Wes Chapman Illinois Wesleyan University wchapman@titan.iwu.edu The title of Tania Modleski’s Feminism Without Women refers, Modleski explains, to a confluence of two political/intellectual trends: the subsumption of feminism within a “more comprehensive” field of gender studies, accompanied by the rise of a “male feminist perspective that excludes women,” and the dominance within feminist […]
Disney and the Imagineering of Histories
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Scott Schaffer Programme in Social and Political Thought York University sschaffe@yorku.ca Recently, the Walt Disney Company abandoned its plans to develop an American history theme park near Manassas, Virginia, the site of a major battle during the American Civil War. Part of the reason for this decision, according to the company, was that the […]
“How to Get Out of the Room That Is the Book?” Paul Auster and the Consequences of Confinement
September 22, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 06, Number 3, May 1996 |
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Stephen A. Fredman Notre Dame stephen.a.fredman.1@nd.edu I. Reading the novels of Paul Auster over the years, I find myself drawn back again and again to his first prose text, The Invention of Solitude (1982), especially to its second half, “The Book of Memory,” a memoir-as-meditation, in which Auster confronts all of his central […]