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Abstract: As I step into the role of Editor of College Literature, the timing feels especially strange as it is the journal's fiftieth anniversary year. Learning about a journal with such a long history and simultaneously participating in planning meetings for how to best celebrate its trajectory is a peculiar juxtaposition. However, it also means that I can promote College Literature's accomplishments without the worry of self-aggrandizement, since the work I'm to spotlight is entirely the work of others, not my own.College Literature began under Bernard Oldsey's Editorship as a thrice-yearly journal premised upon the belief that quality literary analysis and excellence in teaching go hand-in-hand; one cannot be done ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the poem "Self," published in 1984's Heavy Light but composed in this typescript draft in winter 1971/72, the British poet Tom Raworth (1938–2017) makes a wish:i wish i were myself – mexican – que te vaya bienwithout dreams – forgetting to write(Raworth Papers, Box 5)How and why Raworth's evasive lowercase lyric speaker might have arrived at such a "mexican" conception of "my / self"—a bifurcated linguistic fiction of national identification expressed as self-estrangement, across the enjambment—is the subject and story of this article. At the time of the poem's composition, in the winter of 1971/72, Raworth had recently studied for and abandoned a BA in Latin American Studies and completed a specially ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Literary criticism within New Modernist Studies of the past decade has aimed at a more inclusive modernism. It has done so by discovering lesser-known authors and texts that align aesthetically with modernist forms, by expanding the temporal and geographical span of modernist literature, and by discussing reader reception and modernism's entanglement with market demands (Boyiopoulus, Patterson, and Sandy 2019; Mao and Walkowitz 2006; 2008). However, at the same time, this turn in modernist studies has somewhat eclipsed critical discussions of "middlebrow" literature and its cultural significance in America in the first half of the twentieth century. As the "not-so-great American novel,"1 widely read by a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, although some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent […]. At other times, […] I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard, I must confess. But in the month when this confession begins, my way of seeing the world still seemed more of a virtue than a danger, which is how some dangers first appear.In ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made.Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) illustrates how the concept of freedom of speech has become distorted in social media. Rather than an individual right, free speech in The Circle is a rhetorical device, designed to promote the Circle social media company's right to collect data, which in turn benefits the company while exploiting the individual citizens the rhetoric claims to serve. The Circle illustrates that human beings have increasingly become the product, as digital data labor is increasingly exploited by social media companies. Eggers's The Circle offers a reading of social media platforms dictating the "terms and conditions" of free speech, which ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What can we learn about a nineteenth-century manuscript that was probably lost at sea' How can such an elusive text help us to historicize transatlantic reading practices' In this essay, I trace the reception of a book that we famously cannot read or recover: Margaret Fuller's history of the Italian Revolution. Strangely, the details of Fuller's death are often our entry point for remembering the work that made her life so remarkable. Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, Fuller established herself within New England's intellectual circles as a teacher at Bronson Alcott's Temple School and Hiram Fuller's Greene Street School, and as the conversationalist who impressed Bostonians at Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's West ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In a 2016 profile of the poet Eileen Myles, journalist Emily Witt coined the "Theory of the Bad Copy"—a distillation of Myles's belief that copying can be a vehicle for artistic and social change. According to Myles, who has suggested that Black Sparrow Press published them "as a bad copy of Charles Bukowski," people often break with the past by presenting as imitations of established figures (Witt 2016).1 Copying may ease difference, but it also allows new artists to slip through the door and shake things up.The Theory of the Bad Copy suggests that as much as contemporary Western society professes to value originality, it more readily cleaves to the familiar. Latent in the concept of a "bad" copy is the critique ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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