Miscellany from the Material World of Books
“[Language] is not so much a stock of materials as a horizon, which implies both a boundary and a perspective; in short, it is the comforting area of an ordered space. The writer literally takes nothing from it; a language is for him rather a frontier, to overstep which alone might lead to the linguistically supernatural; it is a field of action, the definition of, and hope for, a possibility.”
– Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi (nsfw)
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Literature Lab
Welcome to Literature Lab. L.L. is a series of interviews with literary scholars about the questions and concepts that drive their work. These podcasts are for anyone who takes pleasure in reading. L.L. is produced by David Sherman, who teaches in the English Department, and sponsored by the Theodore and Jane Norman Fund at Brandeis University. Feel free to write David with questions, ideas, or feedback at davidsherman@brandeis.edu, and to check out his faculty page here.
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Mary Poovey
On the Secret Lives of Literary Genres, Markets, and Money
Lara Langer Cohen
Fraudulence and the Making of U.S. Literature
William Flesch
Adventures in Close Reading
Gregory Castle
Yeats and Irish Revival
Robert Crossley
Imagining Mars
Robert Waxler
Convicted Reading, or, Literature in Alternative Sentencing
John Paul Riquelme
The Gothic Novel
Leah Price
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Lisa Rodensky
Oprah, the Victorian Novel, and You
Nicholas Watson
The Medieval Imagination, or, the Fresh Blood of the Deep Past
Laura Tanner
Virtual Reality in 9/11 Fiction
Carrie J. Preston
Ezra Pound, Noh Theater, and Submission