{"title":"Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain by Paula Derdiger (review)","authors":"Ryan Karpovage","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"148-149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124044723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diffused Feeling: Threat Environments and Affective Labor in William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms]","authors":"James L. Coby","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the tumultuous circumstances and key moments of shared affect (or emotional content) between two characters in William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms]: Tall Convict and Harry Wilbourne. Ultimately, by connecting these two geographically and temporally distant characters through affect, Faulkner subversively argues against notions of regional exceptionalism.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133194122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (review)","authors":"F. Dixon","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115399328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology ed. by Erin James and Eric Morel (review)","authors":"Pamela J. Rader","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126397537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Sōseki’s Excursion into the Split Subject and Translation’s Rescue of the Humanities","authors":"Christopher Lupke","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay takes the current crisis in the humanities as its starting point, shifting away from the popular view that the humanities are imperiled by hostile elements from outside academia and a general suspicion of their worth to a deeper and more lasting problem. This larger crisis is that if the humanities are allowed to continue to languish, the North American academy eventually will be left with a knowledge gap. Future generations will be unable to develop humanities-based skills. Although the author has no solution to this problem, he emphasizes one aspect of the humanities: the value of reading world literature in translation. Arguing that important insights can be gleaned from reading outside one’s own field, he draws on Natsume Sōseki’s modern classic Kokoro. Kokoro unveils for the reader many things about Japanese culture in the transition to modernity, including a tension between two subjective tendencies: individualism versus relationality based on filial obeisance. That such insights can be gained from reading in translation is a strong argument for the humanities as well as general education.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123108722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel by Adam Grener (review)","authors":"Krista Rascoe","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124991624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La pasión esclava: Alianzas masoquistas en La Regenta by Nuria Godón (review)","authors":"Julia H. Chang","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131754236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unnatural Narratology: Extension, Revisions, and Challenges ed. by Jan Alber and Brian Richardson (review)","authors":"Nozomi Irei","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115290485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon (review)","authors":"E. Roberts","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130851882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}