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...Robert Volpicelli Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Robert Volpicelli Against Things: The At-Home Objects of Marianne Moore Robert Volpicelli From 1965 until her death in 1972, Marianne Moore lived at 35 West Ninth Street in Greenwich Village. Moore’s Greenwich Village apart...

.... Through readings of the fragmented bodies that challenge the reader in Rainer Maria Rilke and Virginia Woolf, I will suggest that a compositionist ethics of reading points us toward a new understanding of the fragile, processual, and vital imbrication of politics, objects, institutions, and attachments...

...Henry S. Turner Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Empires of Objects: Accumulation and Entropy in E. M. Forster’s Howards End H enry S. Turner [T] here seems something else in life besides tíme, something which may conveniently...

...Gregory Castle “The Consolation of Objects” takes seriously Nietzsche’s call to embrace what is, to love necessity. Amor fati for him entails the ability “to see what is necessary in things as what is beautiful in them.” Stephen Dedalus, in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...

... that “things” have a life outside the realm of the human. Bowen’s fiction expresses an obvious need for objects to mean something or to represent the human, but her fiction also recognizes their inability to do so. In The Little Girls , this obsession with objects is coupled with the threat of extinction...

...Sharon Kunde “The ‘Nature’ of American Literature” explores how John Crowe Ransom and his less-studied contemporary Elizabeth Madox Roberts advanced a theory of literary objects that emerged from nature itself. This theory formed the basis of Ransom’s bid, in “Criticism, Inc.,” for disciplinary...

... in the early twentieth century. Studying how Dismorr’s divergent and feminist approach to Vorticist practice exploits “the materialities of abstraction,” or the traces of the material world that evince the outside of the abstract art object, it suggests that these material traces lead us to reimagine...

... an aging soldier. The curious parallels between these two works are articulated through the figure of the failing human body; in both poem and film, flesh becomes the avatar of a modernist sensorium that struggles to conjoin the perceiving subject with a fugitive and unreliable object world. Specifically...

... Native Son (1940) and Alice Walker’s Meridian (1976) as two representative examples. Both novels portray what Sara Ahmed calls an “affective economy,” specifically the unequal affective economy produced by antiracism’s circulation as a cultural object. Wright considers how antiracism occasions happiness...

..., commentary, object, memorial, testimony, even a kind of secular phylactery or reliquary, through which the son of survivors negotiates his parents’ trauma and the, push-pull of his own Jewish identity. Ultimately, the essay offers boxes as a, way (back) into Maus as a signal text both for Jewish identity...

... among New York intellectuals who ineffectually conspire to found a radical magazine. Although the novel has typically been read as a roman à clef, its broader target becomes evident when positioned in relation to masculinist orthodoxies of objectivity and scientific materialism that dominated American...

... increasingly emphasizes idiosyncratic, incommensurable, and personal modes of understanding over universal structures of knowledge. Attending to the philosophical and aesthetic implications of objective description embodied by the dissertation and the endnotes of The Waste Land , this essay reads the vocal...

... European background constitutes a new object of inquiry and theory, which we call postsocialist literatures in the United States. The new representations—fiction, poetry, and theater—connect the United States to key events in the former Eastern Bloc. They emphasize the importance of state socialism and its...

..., or instances of the postcommunist exotic; nor do they present only harsh critiques of US national imaginaries. Instead, the texts function as convex mirrors for multiple encounters and exchanges in ways that render them both object and method for rethinking real and imaginary intersections between the former...

... to histories of racial profiling and respectability politics, it analyzes how profile epistemology remains dependent on white supremacy, demonstrating how critical race theory, affect theory, and poetry can open up forms of oppositional looking to undermine the ostensible objectivity of data. Copyright ©...

... will not be on the interpretation of shoes as objects that carry the burden of something else (violence, loss, etc.) but on the ways in which shoes step forth in order to foreground the practice of exemplification itself. My focus is onNight and Day, Jacob’s Room and the essays and reviews of literary tourism (or literary...

... of displacing objects from their initial contexts into new epistemologies that foreground the erasure of previous cultures. A little further on in the canto, the homology between modern London and the museum’s display of ancient cultures becomes explicit, when the speaker pauses at a building blasted open...

... social relations, and by how it can il­ luminate the world of objects. Wittgenstein writes: When I talk about language (words, sentences, etc.) I must speak the language of every day. Is this language somehow too coarse and material for what we want to say? Then how is another one...

... relations his work theorizes, he contends that the title character of  William Gaddis’s novel JR possesses such a “minute awareness” of every object in his environment that he is able to see in each scrap of metal or picnic fork a unique buying and sell- ing opportunity. So tuned...

... reducing materiality to subjectivity. But whereas the sexualized flesh of young boys hung from their necks embodies the intractable materiality of Naked Lunch , in V . Pynchon highlights the material irreducibility of the colonial body subjected to European imperialism and the obdurate object world...