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Literature’s Theories
The assumption sustained in this article is as basic as it is simple: theory is an integrated dimension of any work of fiction, not a conceptual...
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Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c
The paper describes and contextualizes the scene of thinking in Jean-Luc Nancy's Le poids d’une pensée, l’approche (2008) and Pascal Quignard’s...
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Bayou St. John Stories
This chapter will examine three Chopin stories that are set in the Bayou St. John neighborhood, which is found in the middle of the city of New...
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“Her position in the universe”: The Awakening’s Edna Pontellier and New Orleans
This study culminates in an examination of Kate Chopin’s depictions of New Orleans in her most well-known narrative, the 1899 novel The Awakening. Of...
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The Theism-Atheism Dialectic
This chapter looks at the effort Shaw and Ricoeur make to provide moderns who reject otherworldly religion, but nonetheless seek the numinous, with a...
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Setting the Stage for Evolutionary Theory
In develo** his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin turned to earlier French ideas, including transformism and Cuvier’s adapted organism....
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The Relational Turn
Formalism is based on the premise that the form of a literary text is constitutive of meaning (or content). Literature is counter-posed to standard...
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Ireland’s Languages of Landscape
Ireland has a culture of dindsenchas, or place-lore, dating from ancient courts of High Kings. Mythical cycles feature superhumans and rove the...
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Gender and Environment in Nguyễn Ngọc Tư’s Narratives
This essay analyzes three main themes in environmental fiction by Nguyen Ngoc Tu, Cánh d̵ồng bất tận (Endless Field, 2005) and Khói trời lộng lẫy...
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When the City Speaks Up: Nature, City, and Identity in Lê Minh Hà’s Phố vẫn gió
Theories of place identity provide a foundation for the analysis of identity in an urban context in the novel Phố vẫn gió by Lê Minh Hà. This essay...
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Space, Place, and Disability
Where things are, and how they connect and relate to one another, is intrinsic to people’s lives, and our location, or where we are in a place, can...
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Ad Astra Per Aspera (To the Stars Through Difficulties)
Making use of epistolary form (“dear reader”), this essay engages the author’s embodied experiences—as a deaf girl in rural western Kansas, circa...
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Blindness and Dyslexia in the Movements of Everyday Life in Toronto
This essay invokes the disabilities of the authors (Rod is blind, Tanya is dyslexic) as a way to explore the complexity of moving in the world...
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Satirizing Gender Expectations: Fanny Fern as the Impossible Subject
This chapter examines at length the core topic for Parton as satirist: gendered expectations for behavior, which entails exploring masculinity as...
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Sara Payson Willis Parton’s (Comic) Preacher, Fanny Fern
This chapter shows Parton the comic writer functioning in the role of what William Thackeray called “the humorist writer [as] the week-day preacher.”...
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A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability
Animals are often conspicuous by their absence in the future-driven enterprise of town-planning and urban design. In Australia, as elsewhere, they...
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Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy Through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
The genre of science fiction (sf) can allow us to explore the potential impacts of biotechnological interventions on nonhuman animals. Through...
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Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in Two-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games
The unique affordances of computer technologies make video games a useful medium for speculating on nonhuman animals and our relationships with them....
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Philosophy in the Flesh: Feeling, Folly, and Animals in Beckett
Scholars have remained fascinated by the relationship between philosophy and the novels, stories, and plays of Samuel Beckett. In particular,...
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Introduction: The Dynamics of Truthfulness and Media
In this introduction to “Truth Claims Across Media,” we approach pressing questions related to facts and fakes, authority and authenticity,...