Tag: Literary Studies

January 31, 2013

"Philosophy has lost its way"

Read a guest post from Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real.

January 30, 2013

A Q & A with Mark C. Taylor

Read an interview with Professor Mark C. Taylor, author of Rewiring the Real.

January 29, 2013

Rewiring the Real with Mark C. Taylor

Check out our new Pinterest board for Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real!

January 29, 2013

Mark C. Taylor on the interrelation of art, philosophy, and religion

Read the introduction, “Nexus,” from Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real.

January 24, 2013

The Many Faces of Roland Barthes; or Rolling with Roland

With our recent publication of the first-ever English translation of How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces” by Roland Barthes, we thought a visual tribute was in order. Visit our board on Pinterest for more photos of...

October 25, 2012

Schryer wins Robert K. Martin Book Prize!

Congrats to Stephen Schryer, whose book Fantasies of the New Class has won the 2012 Robert K. Martin Book Prize!

September 14, 2012

Judith Jack Halberstam on the University, Credos, and More

“I believe in shaking down the big disciplines once a generation, replacing dinosaur forms of knowledge production with improvised programs, and reinventing curricula, disciplinary knowledge, and knowledge clusters every decade at least. I believe … the university needs to dance...

September 11, 2012

Jeffrey J. Williams and Heather Steffen on "The Critical Pulse" and Literary Criticism

The following is an interview with Jeffrey J. Williams and Heather Steffen, coeditors of The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics. (For more on the book, you can read the introduction, Criticism in a Difficult Time). Question: What is...

February 22, 2012

The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace Revisited

Yesterday would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday and on this occasion, we wanted to look back at our recent publication of his, Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. For a more in-depth discussion of David...

November 17, 2011

Brian Boyd's Daily Reads

Brian Boyd, author of Stalking Nabokov, was recently featured on the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s popular feature My Daily Read. In the piece, Boyd discusses the newspapers, magazines, and books he has been reading lately. In discussing what books he’s...

November 17, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Take on Shakespeare

In Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Kenneth Goldsmith argues that language expressed either semantically or as code is behind everything we read, see, and hear online. The ability of writers and artists to manipulate this “language” opens...

November 16, 2011

Brian Boyd on His Book Stalking Nabokov

“I first read Nabokov at about 13 and first began stalking him at 16. Nabokov wanted nothing more than to turn his readers into stalkers, by planting little clues along the fictional trails he blazed, challenging them to catch up...