LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory最新文献

{"title":"Archives for the Anthropocene: Planetary Memory in Contemporary Global South Literature","authors":"Yvonne Liebermann, Birgit Neumann","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1742956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1742956","url":null,"abstract":"Memory is typically understood as an essentially psychological process, tied to humans, their cognition, and their bodies. In a more metaphorical sense, memory is also conceived as a social and col...","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"146 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1742956","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47187723","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":"Archives and Indigeneity: Appropriative Poetic Interventions in the Settler-Colonial Archive","authors":"J. Wiens","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1742953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1742953","url":null,"abstract":"the control of the archon, the official custodian of truth. It is archivization that interests","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"102 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1742953","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46853649","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":"“Documentary Evidence”: Archival Agency in Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety","authors":"Tom Chadwick","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1747176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1747176","url":null,"abstract":"We first encounter Georges Danton – one of the three main characters in Hilary Mantel’s 1992 novel A Place of Greater Safety – as a young boy, shortly after he has been gored by a bull. On the one hand this can be read as a straightforward act of characterization: Danton’s injurious childhood becomes formative for his revolutionary future. Yet, the description of Danton’s childhood injury is also crucial in relating the fictional character in Mantel’s novel to the historical character upon which he is based, not least because the only extant portrait of Danton shows a man with a heavily scarred face (Charpentier). The rooting of a fictional narrative within historical detail is a central concern for Mantel. Her fifth novel, like many of her other works, is a historical novel, this one set during the French Revolution. It traces the lives of three revolutionary protagonists – Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre – from childhood to the execution of Danton and Desmoulins in 1794. A Place of Greater Safety is written in explicit relation to archival traces. As Mantel herself explains in a short author’s note that precedes the text, much of her historical research found its way into the finished novel in its entirety: “Where I can,” she writes, “I have used [the characters’] real words – from recorded speeches or preserved writings – and woven them into my own dialogue” (xi). Yet archives do not simply figure in the novel as the source-material for Mantel’s fiction. Indeed, midway through the novel, while attending the salon of Madame Roland, the scar by which Danton was first introduced starts to speak to the host: “Yes, take a good look, his face said; you have never in your safe little life seen a man like me” (425). Here, Danton’s scar not only carries a record of the historical past, but actively structures Madame Roland’s experience of the present. It is the manner in which the archive not only records but actively produces history that I will explore in this essay.","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"165 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1747176","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42996393","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":"A “New Continent of Data”: Pola Oloixarac’s Dark Constellations and the Latin American Jungle Novel","authors":"Bieke Willem","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1747181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1747181","url":null,"abstract":"Above, the sky without limits, the constellated night of the tropics. And the stars were frightening! Jose Eustasio Rivera, La Voragine 345 In September 2018, the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, ...","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"129 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1747181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49387637","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":"Politics of Literature, Politics of the Archive","authors":"Tom Chadwick, Pieter Vermeulen","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1747183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1747183","url":null,"abstract":"In a time of instant archiving and ongoing planetary collapse, literature’s engagement with the archive no longer automatically has the political purchase it had as late as the end of the twentieth...","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"95 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1747183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48591384","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":"“Lots of Us Are Doing Fine”: Femslash Fan Fiction, Happy Endings, and the Archontic Expansions of the Price of Salt Archive","authors":"A. Kelly","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1712791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712791","url":null,"abstract":"In the afterword to the 1989 reissue of The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith writes of the overwhelmingly positive responses she had received from readers since the novel’s initial publication in ...","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"42 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712791","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44426107","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":"Staging the Geological Archive: Ontroerend Goed’s World Without Us and Anthropocene Theater","authors":"Mahlu Mertens","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1712795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712795","url":null,"abstract":"With regard to art and the Anthropocene, literary critics have extensively discussed fiction, but theater, in its evanescence, offers a unique opportunity to think through the pressures and challenges of the Anthropocene as well. Very little attention has been paid to the strategies used within contemporary theater to tackle the challenges the Anthropocene poses to the human imagination, even though, or perhaps exactly because, theater seems to face an even bigger challenge than fiction. Unlike printed forms, performance is not only dependent on human language, but also on human bodies that act out, or at least convey, the story, and these performances are themselves fleeting and difficult – indeed, impossible – to preserve for posterity. The few articles that have been published on theater and the Anthropocene focus on climate change plays that have been staged (Johns-Putra), or they overlook the formal challenges inherent in depicting the Anthropocene on stage. In this essay, I use the term “Anthropocene” in the formal geological sense of the word as defined by the Working Group on the Anthropocene (n.p.). Their definition is based on the stratigraphic signals which indicate that the Anthropocene is, will be, and will have been a distinct stratigraphic unit whose distinctiveness derives precisely from its being anthropogenic in nature. The concept of the Anthropocene, literary scholar Jeremy Davies argues, “requires a certain indirectness [because] one must imaginatively transfer oneself to the far future” to see “how readily discernible [environmental change] will be millions of years from now” (66–67). World Without Us (2016), a Flemish theater play by Ontroerend Goed, tries to do just that: it imagines the long-lasting impact of the human presence on the planet. The play World Without Us is loosely based on Alan Weisman‘s speculative nonfiction work TheWorldWithout Us (2007), in which he describes what would happen to the natural and built environment if human life were to be wiped out. The play toured from 2016 to 2018 in Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. World Without Us explicitly takes the present, the here and now of the theater space where the actor and audience are gathered together, as a starting point for a proleptic remembering of the geological archive. It is a monologue for one actor, who functions as narrator, describing in a factual","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"60 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712795","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49080354","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":"Literature in the New Archival Landscape","authors":"Tom Chadwick, Pieter Vermeulen","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1712793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712793","url":null,"abstract":"Archiving has become an increasingly ubiquitous part of everyday life. Every e-mail we receive is instantaneously stored in the cloud, and every Google search we begin is autocompleted by an algorithm that draws on the archive of our past searches, clicks, messages, and purchases. The archive, in other words, not only stores the present even as it unfolds, it also actively produces the present and the future. Such ambient archiving is a far cry from the image we typically associate with archives: that of a stuffy, poorly lit room where our access to written or printed documents is carefully managed and often policed. By becoming part of everyday life, the archive has extended beyond its traditional institutions and users. As much as the shift from analogue to digital modes of registration is crucial in determining the archive’s expansion into the wider culture, recent changes to the archive have not only been technological, but also semantic. In the last few decades of the twentieth century, critical theory unmoored the traditional archive from its precise location and set it adrift with metaphorical meanings, making it both a “physical” and an “imaginative” site, a “conceptual space whose boundaries are forever changing” (Voss and Werner 1). The two unavoidable names in this context remain those of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida – even if, as the contributions to these two issues make clear, many other scholars have approached the archive in innovative and imaginative ways. A major part of Foucault’s work was based on actual archival research, but he also theorized the archive as something much more encompassing: as the epistemic infrastructure that allows statements to appear as singular events within a wider system of reference. This metaphorical archive, for Foucault, determines the truth value and the import of the statements that it allows. Derrida, for his part, situated the production of the archive in the psychic life of power: torn between a destructive deathdrive and a conservational drive linked to the pleasure principle, our “archive fever” manically records the present to salvage it for an insistent future. As","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712793","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43646340","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":"Archive Anxiety in Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City","authors":"Mark Bresnan","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1712794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712794","url":null,"abstract":"How does the archive feel? In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges creates one of literature’s most famous archives, describing what seems at first to be an orderly storehouse of all the world’s knowledge: “Each wall of each hexagon is furnished with five bookshelves; each bookshelf holds thirty-two books identical in format; each line, approximately eighty black letters” (113). In the story’s opening paragraphs, the archive promises uniformity, rationality, and even physical comfort: shelves are built to the height of an average librarian, and each vestibule between the library’s hexagons features a sleeping compartment and a washroom (112). When a librarian deduces that the library is “total” – featuring all possible knowledge – Borges describes the initial response as “unbounded joy. All men felt themselves the possessors of an intact and secret treasure” (115). This sense of promise echoes one of the most compelling seductions of contemporary technoculture, which proposes to harness Moore’s Law, the cloud, and the wisdom of the commons in order to organize and catalog the world’s information into an orderly and comprehensive archive. In his 2010 book Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky highlights the creation of live-updating archives made possible by crowd-sourcing and digital technology. In his discussion of Ushahidi, a collective news platform used to track governmentsponsored violence and voter intimidation in developing countries, Shirky notes that “[a] handful of people, working with cheap tools and little time or money to spare, managed to carve out enough collective goodwill from the community to create a resource that no one could have even imagined even five years ago” (17). He argues that such efforts have enormous potential for the collection and organization of knowledge, noting that if the global population dedicated just 1% of the time they spent watching television on collaborating and participating in such projects, they could produce the equivalent of “more than one hundred Wikipedias” each year (23). The extraordinary potential of this intersection between digital technology and the archivization of knowledge led hundreds of Wikipedia editors to gather in Alexandria, Egypt in the summer of 2008. Popular historian James Gleick","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"24 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1712794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45858867","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":"Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City","authors":"M. Eve","doi":"10.1080/10436928.2020.1709713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2020.1709713","url":null,"abstract":"Despite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies through the comparison of geographically diverse publications of texts serving as documentary co-archives of emergence. To make this case I document the two very different versions of Jennifer Egan’s first-published collection of fiction, Emerald City (1993 and 1996), charting the interpretational consequences of her editorial processes within that early work. \u0000 \u0000Until the embargo expires, a version is available on the author's personal website at https://eve.gd/2019/07/06/textual-scholarship-and-contemporary-literary-studies-jennifer-egans-editorial-processes-and-the-archival-edition-of-emerald-city/","PeriodicalId":42717,"journal":{"name":"LIT-Literature Interpretation Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"25 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10436928.2020.1709713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44182198","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}