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Crossing the Border: The Depiction of India in Ian McDonald's River of Gods and Cyberabad Days
(SF-TH Inc., DePauw University, 2016-11)In this article I argue that Northern Irish author Ian McDonald's works, River of Gods (2004) and Cyberabad Days (2008), set in India deviate from the prevalent Orientalism of mainstream Western science fiction. Drawing ... -
Detestable as Joint-Stock Companies or Nations: Melville and the International
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2009-01)Tally reviews Loren Goldner’s Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic King, which posits that Melville was the American Marx, exposing the crisis of bourgeois ideology in the revolutionary period ... -
Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature
(John Hopkins University Press, 2009-10)Literature abounds with the description and exploration of spaces. The writer maps the world, combining a representation of real places with the imaginary space of fiction. In some cases, what I have elsewhere called ... -
'We Are What We Pretend to Be': Existential Angst in Vonnegut’s Mother Night
(Central Piedmont Community College, 2009-04)The moral of Vonnegut’s third novel, stated in its opening pages, is “We are what we pretend to be.” Vonnegut’s most directly existentialist novel, _Mother Night_ introduces the related themes of alienation, identity, and ... -
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Rosemary for Remembrance: a Memoir Commemorating the Department of English Southwest Texas State University in its 75th Year
(Southwest Texas State University, 1979-01)No abstract prepared. -
Commencement Speeches of the 75th Anniversary Year Southwest Texas State University
(Southwest Texas State University Learning Resources Center, 1980-01)Commencement Speeches 1978-1979 Southwest Texas State University. -
Getting and Communicating Thought
(1933-01)A tentative endeavor to assist first-semester students in Freshman Composition to attain more easily there putative proficiency-level in the subject, by supplying them with such supplemental materials as they need at this ... -
A Postmodern Iconography: Vonnegut and the Great American Novel
(Cambridge Scholars, 2008-01)No abstract prepared. -
Geocriticism and Classic American Literature
(2008-11-08)“I take SPACE to be the central fact to man in America.” At the beginning of Call me Ishmael, Charles Olson categorically established space as a key concept for American Studies. Yet, for the most part, this concept has ... -
The Poetics of Descent: Irreversible Narrative in Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle"
(Cambridge Scholars, 2007-01)No abstract prepared. -
The Whale in the World: Using Moby-Dick in a General Education Course
(Rapid Intellect, 2008-04)Moby-Dick is perhaps the best known novel in American literature, yet it is generally considered a daunting read, even for English majors in advanced courses. However, I believe that Moby-Dick is a text well suited for ... -
The Agony of the Political. A review of Chantal Mouffe, On the Political (London: Routledge, 2005)
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007-01)No abstract prepared. -
Reason and Revolution Redux: Antonio Negri's Political Descartes
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008-01)No abstract prepared. -
"Spaces that before were blank": Truth and Narrative Form in Melville's South Seas Cartography
(Penn State University Press, 2007-01)No abstract prepared. -
“Es lässt sich nicht lesen”: Poe and the Inscrutable
(2008-01)Poe begins and ends his enigmatic study of the man of the crowd with the phrase, applied to a German book, “it does not permit itself to be read.” The same observation might apply to much of Poe’s own work, in which ... -
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[Review] Jonathan Arac: The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860
(San Diego State University, 2007-05-01)No abstract prepared. -
[Review] Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
(Duke University Press, 2007-03)No abstract prepared. -
Believing in America: The Politics of American Studies in a Postnational Era
(American Studies Center, 2006-12)No abstract prepared.
