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ISSN (Print) 0049-2426 - ISSN (Online) 1527-2095
Published by U of Wisconsin Press

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“Say a Body. Where None.”: Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Sartre’s
Theory of the Imagination
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  Abstract: The final development of Samuel Beckett’s late, “closed space” style and the culmination of his second trilogy, Worstward Ho fabricates, piece by tin-pot piece, a spartan narrative world. The novel tersely dispatches with the questions that, in the crowning work of the first trilogy, confounded the Unnamable: “Where now' Who now' When now'” The setting is instantly conjured: “A place. Where none” (92). The protagonists, two “shades,” are summarily summoned: a woman, who stands or kneels, and a paired old man and child holding hands, spoken of as a single, united shade, “Joined by held holding hands. Plod on as one. One shade” (93). And a time is announced: “Onceless” (110)—or something like a time anyway. But the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
Impersonal Belongings: Annie Ernaux’s Poetics of Chiffonnage
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  Abstract: In nineteenth-century Paris, when the night fell on the city of lights at an end of a busy day, it was more than probable that pedestrians encountered ragpickers in the street: men whose job was to pick through the leftovers of textile manufacturing and return rags, odds, and ends back to the industrial chain, mostly for the benefit of the paper industry. As Antoine Compagnon shows, ragpicking was not only an official profession registered with city authorities, but also a source of inspiration for the writers of the modern city (9–30). Charles Baudelaire, in “The Ragman’s Wine,” writes that the ragpicker “Staggers against the walls, as poets do” (217). Baudelaire establishes a bond between the ragpicker and the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
Parasites, Viruses, and Baisetioles: Poetry as Viral Language
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  Abstract: All this we are excluding from considerationJohn L. Austin’s speech-act theory is marked by an exclusion. An exclusion that, despite the undeniable potential of his theory for literary studies, has been a yet unsurmountable obstacle to an ordinary language poetics.1 What is excluded is the parasite: Austin considers utterances in poems, on stage, or in soliloquy to be “parasitic upon [their] normal use” (Austin 22) and he excludes them from consideration. Jacques Derrida criticizes him on this very notion of parasite in his essay “Signature, Event, Context” that gave rise to the famous Derrida-Searle debate. Much has been said about this debate, including two recent book-length explorations (Moati, 2014; Navarro ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
The End of Prediction' AI Technologies in a No-Analog World
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  Abstract: In March 2022, the temperature of the eastern Antarctic soared to 70 degrees hotter than usual. Instead of the minus-60 degree readings that would typically be expected at that time of year, temperatures in the region hovered between zero and 10 degrees. One scientist described the event as “completely unprecedented”; another suggested that such anomalies would be considered “impossible” or “unthinkable” before they actually occurred (Samenow and Patel). The same phenomenon emerges when tracing carbon dioxide levels (NASA). For hundreds of thousands of years, the data points are roughly cyclical; the line trends upward before inevitably plateauing and dipping down again. Back and forth it oscillates, until it nears ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
Cultural Necromancy: Digital Resurrection and Hegemonic Incorporation
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  Abstract: What is the other—or what are the others—at the moment when it is a matter of responding to the necessity of making something of me, of making of me some thing or their thing from the moment I will be, as people say, departed, i.e., deceased, passed, passed away … absolutely without defense, disarmed, in their hands, i.e., as they say, so to speak, dead'The rapper Tupac Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II, a descendant of the last Incan monarch who led an uprising against the Spanish. Shakur’s mother knew the name’s pedigree; she explained that she wanted Tupac to “have the name of revolutionary, indigenous people in the world” (Walker). Tupac often followed in the rebellious footsteps of his namesake. Once, when ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
Anticipating Illness: The Illusion of Health in Knock ou Le Triomphe de la
Médicine
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  Abstract: In 1923, the established French poet, author, and playwright Jules Romains published Knock ou Le Triomphe de la Médicine [Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine],1 a satirical play parodying the hierarchical power relationship between patient and doctor and the supposed infallibility of science in the early twentieth century. Reminiscent of Molière’s earlier plays, Le médecin malgré lui [The Doctor Despite Himself] (1666) and the later Le malade imaginaire [The Imaginary Invalid] (1673), both of which sought to demonstrate the pretentions of seventeenth-century medicine, Knock similarly endeavors to depict medicine as a scientific field undermined by the dualities of health and illness and populated by doctors driven by ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
Literature: Why It Matters by Robert Eaglestone (review)
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  Abstract: Is literature a worthy topic of study in an era fixated on science, technology, and information' This has become a subject of debate in recent years, especially as enrollment in college literature courses has declined. J. Hillis Miller has noted that “all who love literature are collectively anxious today about whether literature matters” (13), insisting that it does since it has “three essential human functions: social critique, the pleasure of the text, and allowing a materialization of the imaginary or an endless approach to the unapproachable imaginary” (31). Other literary scholars concur with Miller, though from differing perspectives, including Dennis J. Sumara in Why Reading Literature in School Still ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
A Partial Truth (Poems 2015–19) by Christopher Norris (review)
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  Abstract: “No interval but some event takes place.”A Partial Truth, a collection of thirty-seven pieces, is the seventh volume of poetry by philosopher and literary theorist Christopher Norris. Nobody familiar with Norris’s distinguished career will be surprised to learn that his recent turn to versification is not a repudiation of intellectual and rhetorical seriousness, but a re-emphasis of the same using resources not typically found in academic prose. Norris, an interdisciplinarian long before that term became a slogan, has in his work clocked up considerable epistemological mileage across diverse terrain, his critical friendship with deconstruction leading him to important interventions in analytic and Continental ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00
The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and
Foucault in Translation by Jason Demers (review)
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  Abstract: This most welcome book gets off on the right foot by eschewing such problematic terms as “post-structuralism” or “French theory” in studying the work of French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. These terms are of a strictly Anglo-Atlantic provenance, a convenient but misleading encapsulation that facilitated their journey or translation into the Anglo-Atlantic world. Instead, Demers prefers to view this transmission as an ensemble of relays between “people, groups, places, ideas, and moments in time” (3), as well as codes; metalanguages; markets for symbolic capital, a notion derived from Pierre Bourdieu; and “networks of feeling” (5n), a term the author borrowed from ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-09-18T00:00:00-05:00