"In her 2009 book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett explored the vital materiality of non-human objects and the deep interrelation of human and non-human forces. Yet she was left with a question: if we recognize human agency as bound up with the agentic forces of the material world, …
In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? "Influx & efflux"--a phrase borrowed from Whitman's "Song of Myself"--refers to everyday moveme…
"In her 2009 book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett explored the vital materiality of non-human objects and the deep interrelation of human and non-human forces. Yet she was left with a question: if we recognize human agency as bound up with the agentic forces of the material world, …
"In her 2009 book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett explored the vital materiality of non-human objects and the deep interrelation of human and non-human forces. Yet she was left with a question: if we recognize human agency as bound up with the agentic forces of the material world, …
& Quot;When Confederate Troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--The bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and soc…
"Early to mid-nineteenth-century America experienced a cultural fascination with oneness or monism--the notion that individuals are not separate from divinity but, rather, that the individual soul is an incarnation of the universal soul. Everything is one. This buzz of monism wa…
"Early to mid-nineteenth-century America experienced a cultural fascination with oneness or monism--the notion that individuals are not separate from divinity but, rather, that the individual soul is an incarnation of the universal soul. Everything is one. This buzz of monism wa…
We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political structures spread, we are left wondering about our ties to each other. Consequently, there is no better time than now to reconsider i…
"A DEMOCRATIC ENLIGHTENMENT uses the idea of the reconciliation image-developed first by Walt Whitman and expanded in the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno-to argue that we are experiencing a new enlightenment moment revolving around the visual aesthetics of film. Political the…
"'A Democratic Enlightenment' uses the idea of the reconciliation image - developed first by Walt Whitman and expanded in the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno - to argue that we are experiencing a new enlightenment moment revolving around the visual aesthetics of film. Politic…
"A DEMOCRATIC ENLIGHTENMENT uses the idea of the reconciliation image-developed first by Walt Whitman and expanded in the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno-to argue that we are experiencing a new enlightenment moment revolving around the visual aesthetics of film. Political the…
This is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author's "selected works" or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected edit…
"Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author's "selected works" or thematic anthologies, which clea…
"Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author's "selected works" or thematic anthologies, which clea…
La 4e de couv. indique : "Proofs of Genius: collected editions from the American revolution to the digital age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author's "selected works" or themati…
