LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory最新文献

{"title":"Metafiction, Lexical Ostentation, and Censorship in Umezaki Haruo’s “B-tō fūbutsushi”","authors":"Erik R. Lofgren","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2269036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2269036","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139760785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agency, Mobility, and Constraint in Neoliberal Fiction of Female Labor","authors":"Michael K. Walonen","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2269034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2269034","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139760832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defects of (Human) Nature? Cognitive Biases in Golding’s Lord of the Flies","authors":"Dawid Bernard Juraszek","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2239705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2239705","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":" 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“The Comrades are Sweet, but They Never Chat, They Make Speeches All the Time”: On Laughter and Linearity in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love","authors":"Lewis MacLeod","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2239696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2239696","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":" 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roads, Misogyny, and the Rape Culture in Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story and Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty","authors":"Srirupa Chatterjee, Swathi Krishna S","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2239697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2239697","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":" 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Live in Fragments No Longer. Only Connect.”: The Alienation and Self-Restoration of the Subject in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights","authors":"Yuan Xue","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2240205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2240205","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Barack Obama’s “Drone Speech” and the Meaning of “Just War” After 9/11","authors":"John LeJeune","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2231835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2231835","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. A separate campaign in Northern Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Haymaker, was also indicative. When whistleblowers provided a cache of secret documents to The Intercept, it was reported that “between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90% of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets” (Devereaux).2. A January 2015 issue of The Nation reported, “During the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2014, US Special Operations forces (SOF) deployed to 133 countries—roughly 70% of the nations on the planet—according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bockholt, a public affairs officer with the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM). This capped a three-year span in which the country’s most elite forces were active in more than 150 different countries around the world, conducting missions ranging from kill/capture night raids to training exercises.” (Turse)3. On October 5, 2013, for example—some four months after the President’s May 23rd Drone Speech—U.S. Navy Seals launched a “lightning amphibious assault on the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab,” with the specific intent of “capturing, not killing” senior commander Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadi. The mission was aborted, according to Pentagon officials, when an urban firefight threatened to cause high civilian casualties (Ahmed et al.). In another famous mission, Special Ops troops in August 2014 attempted but failed to rescue journalist James Foley from his ISIS captors in Syria (Goldman and DeYoung).","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"270 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Prior Justification”: Neo-World War II Films as Rhetorical Appeals for “Just War” in the New Millennium","authors":"Vincent Casaregola","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2231834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2231834","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. As quoted in Jo Davidsmeyer, Combat!: A Viewer’s Companion to the WW II Series 173.2. It is difficult to know what we should now call the military actions earlier referred to as “The War on Terror.” At present, it seems that most media outlets speak of the “Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” and the “War against ISIS.”3. For a thorough discussion of this quartet of films, see Vincent Casaregola, Theaters of War: America’s Perceptions of World War II), 110–136 and 247-248n. Also see Jeanine Basinger, The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre; Joe Hyams, War Movies; Mike Mayo, Video Hound’s War Movies; and Lawrence Suid, Guts and Glory, Second Edition. Suid, in particular, articulates the importance of these four films mentioned.4. By volunteering to join a service, and thereby accepting a three-year term of enlistment, a recruit could have much more choice in how and where they might serve, assuring that they would not be in the jungles of Vietnam. They would still have to serve, and they might face danger of some kind, but they were not plodding through the rice paddies and jungles.5. Tom Englehardt’s 1995 book, The End of Victory Culture, provides a useful analysis of the interaction between the traditional and evolving World War II narratives in film and popular culture in relation to the emergent disillusionment of Americans in the Cold War and Vietnam era, as well as the Reagan-era and Gulf War revival of a new kind of militarism. This is a useful but flawed study. One cannot fault Englehardt for not being able to predict the neo-World War II film, much less the influence of the 9/11 attacks. On the other hand, Englehardt seems oblivious to the new kinds of World War II trauma narratives emergent from 1979 onward (and, to some extent, an outgrowth of similar narratives from the Vietnam generation). Like many critics of film, television, and popular culture, he seems, at best, unfamiliar with literary and memoir representations that are of such great value in re-assessing Americans’ perspectives on World War II and war in general. As a result, as interesting as his study can be, it is also strikingly limited in its perspective. It has a story to tell, and it is sticking to that story.6. It should be noted that World War II had been seen, and continues to be seen, as a”just war,” whereas Vietnam is still a contested historical narrative, with some historians still claiming it as a just war undermined by incompetent politicians and others arguing that it was unjust and a mistake from the get-go. The real issue, though, has to be beyond narrative justification, which is a rhetorical exercise frequently used to argue that an action is just regardless of the full range of facts. In many ways, no war can ever be described as completely just, and modern wars, by their very nature, will bring about unju","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Einfühlung Als Gemeinschaft</i> : Edith Stein, Emotional Numbing, and Anhedonia—A Way Forward","authors":"Brandon W. Koble","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2231832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2231832","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. See Sarah Borden and Alfredo Carlos Taubenschlag; Kathleen Haney; James Jardine and Thomas Szanto; Alisdair MacIntyre; Rita Wengorovius Ferro Meneses; Philip Pettit; Katherina Westerhorstmann.2. Throughout this essay, I use the term “soldier” to denote someone currently in the military, engaging in wartime activities or training to engage in those activities. The term “veteran” appears when I denote someone no longer in active service, but who has left the military and returned to civilian life.3. All citations in the biographical section, unless otherwise noted, are taken from Edith Stein, The Collected Works of Edith Stein. This brief biography focuses on her wartime experiences and her experience after the death of Reinach. For other brief biographies, see Sarah Borden and Antonio Calcagno. For longer biographies, see Waltraud Herbstrith, Edith Stein: The Untold Story of the Philosopher and Mystic Who Lost Her Life in the Death Camps of Auschwitz, Ignatius Press, 1992; and Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda, Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Sophia Institute Press, 2017.4. Stein states in her autobiography that, “Only when I saw that (the note from the man’s wife) did I fully realize what this death meant, humanly speaking.”5. For a psychological study of smoking cigarettes by soldiers during World War I, see Michael Reeve, “Special Needs, Cheerful Habits” 483–501. See also Lukasz Kamienski, Shooting Up.6. She discusses how many of these were still wearing their first bandages, applied immediately following the injury.7. These include her desire for chemical stimulants, her inability to sleep even though exhausted, her despair, and even her apathetic response to her precarious situation at the border.8. “I found it most pleasant to work all by myself, without outside influence, and without interruption for the sake of rendering bothersome accounts to the Master.” “The Master” was Stein’s nickname for Husserl.9. “Now I resolutely put aside everything derived from other sources and began, entirely at rock bottom, to make an objective examination of the problem of empathy according to phenomenological methods.”10. Rigorosum are the written and oral examinations one needed to pass receive a doctorate. It was also during this time when the narrative of Stein’s autobiography ends due to her arrest by the S.S. in August of 1942.11. For the intersection of Stein’s anthropology and her view of empathy, see Donald Wallenfang.12. Rita Meneses describes them as “three different ways into empathy” (author’s emphasis).13. Meneses calls this “directly perceiving.”14. If this produced fear for yourself regarding your own bodily wellbeing, this would be labeled as a contagion and thus not empathy because the fear is your own primordial experience, both in act and content.15. Here, “feeling","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Severe Pain and Good Faith: Just War Theory’s Right Intention in the Bush-Era Torture Memos","authors":"Laura A. Sparks","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2023.2231833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2023.2231833","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1. “Enhanced interrogation techniques” are maneuvers that “incorporate physical or psychological pressure beyond Standard Techniques” (Miles 1).2. The much-decried “Gloves Come Off” MON, in effect, continues to authorize the CIA’s (and later the Department of Defense’s) drone strikes with disturbingly little congressional oversight (Mazzetti and Apuzzo). While the drone program maintains a different orientation to human bodies—we kill people from afar, rather than up close—drone strikes are justified by disturbingly similar means.3. Also known as the Islamic State, ISIS is an offshoot of al Qaeda that emerged around 2014. The militant group quickly took over large swaths of Syria and Iraq.4. See, for example, Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; Article 5 of the American Convention on Human Rights; Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions; and the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.5. Skolnick qualifies Scarry’s suggestion that torture is typically employed when “power is ‘highly contestable’ and the regime ‘unstable;’” he references the cruel treatment of IRA prisoners by British authorities in Northern Ireland as an example of torture by a stable democracy (110). Abu Ghraib provides yet another example, though perhaps the fact that these examples of torture were situated in unstable locales (i.e. Northern Ireland and Iraq, respectively) qualifies Skolnick’s point.6. Walzer in “Political Action” invokes a similar scenario to think through how political leaders make tragic decisions; he determines that a leader who decides to torture in order to save others must understand that they have done wrong and accept the moral burden of their decision.7. For ease of reference, all memos and reports are cited in Greenberg and Dratel, where they are published in their entirety.","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}