HASTAC Commons | Caroline Edwards | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/cai247/activity/ Activity feed for Caroline Edwards. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:45 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f851108bc4e91609583dcb38880a48fc Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850429/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:26:29 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3eb4314b3b75f468d3a24c6252f1764 Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850428/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:26:23 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4fd1d3bc9f81f1001470fe7504c76e0 Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850427/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:26:12 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]

]]> 0 acb6b8df421b0fdeda35cec125bed8cb Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850426/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:26:05 +0000 This article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]

]]> 0 02386132151fb5df9fccb107cbd347b1 Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850425/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:25:56 +0000 This article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]

]]> 0 e715100caa4ff12a7a6dd454229c05c0 Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850424/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:25:46 +0000 This article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]

]]> 0 02cd5e6dd174e8fd9e58c9f53edf99dd Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850289/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:06:16 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article…

One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]

]]> 0 0885a4c352e78f2e532752c48581ef34 Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850288/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:51:35 +0000 This article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6b2b8e5a5aa7f968d8c0f2c79ec5bef Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640884/ Sat, 25 May 2019 04:06:54 +0000 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec5981e18582aee6acd3d7d0a0629252 Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640883/ Sat, 25 May 2019 03:56:49 +0000 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 41e03360649daa325d98b17f04ccbc5e Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640882/ Sat, 25 May 2019 03:54:23 +0000 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9bc40e9a944c3a7f5a5d5a971ed3893 Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640881/ Sat, 25 May 2019 03:54:21 +0000 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 667de9af2468f92fa81e7c611fa1cde1 Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640880/ Sat, 25 May 2019 03:48:43 +0000 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 36647f8eff6925e2cfc2fa09ac5d99a6 Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640857/ Fri, 24 May 2019 12:06:44 +0000 Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9dd7104bb24a7c2345a8b7710760619 Caroline Edwards's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631364/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:38:34 +0000 0 f1aee50eeabf99f98433c310293e2af9 Caroline Edwards's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575438/ Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:43:26 +0000 0 e39810b0ab7ca5cd5ceccbb04546ec61 Caroline Edwards changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575437/ Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:34:47 +0000 0 ed5a1fa449608a55e24397497c171dc0 Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544954/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:12:15 +0000 This panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bb22dcfac68df53b2a26c8d77d5920d Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544953/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:12:11 +0000 This panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]

]]> 0 98f0ee854201d055236a3554adfeeaa3 Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544952/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:12:02 +0000 This panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]

]]> 0 39424190a72d8348a6fe91ac472715b6 Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group HEP Teaching as a Profession https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544951/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:11:51 +0000 This panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]

]]> 0 40aef8c327cf9cdad732703b16a253c6 Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544950/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:11:48 +0000 This panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]

]]> 0 49e7512d75c345dfe5a14977a1156e9e Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544949/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:11:47 +0000 This panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bf6aa968a2b064fa79d09e2ee01dfab Caroline Edwards deposited Collective Subjects and Political Transformation https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538374/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:07:45 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

What can today’s politics and cultures teach us about subjectivity? Can postdeconstructive theorisations of subjectivity retain or even widen the spaces in which subjects that are no longer metaphysical or humanist might cooperate to construct new emancipatory struggles? Guided by t…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4dd18bf1b83a152184edd41329ccc25 Caroline Edwards deposited Interview with Jon McGregor in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538373/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:01:35 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

Born in 1976 in Bermuda, Jon McGregor grew up in Norfolk and currently lives in Nottingham in the UK. McGregor came to literary prominence with the publication of his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury, 2002). The novel was an immediate success and at just…[Read more]

]]> 0 397daa6e4bea0670ba7f8a1ceca982c5 Caroline Edwards deposited Interview with Jon McGregor https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538372/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:01:34 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

Born in 1976 in Bermuda, Jon McGregor grew up in Norfolk and currently lives in Nottingham in the UK. McGregor came to literary prominence with the publication of his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury, 2002). The novel was an immediate success and at just…[Read more]

]]> 0 51fe28be87f34ba91be9bd5bc78db08f Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538371/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:53:21 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:

Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebbda9688a48542f966cdf4394ef250d Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538370/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:53:08 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:

Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 dac1d8dc061872dd39742558a9e23342 Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538369/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:53:00 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:

Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 8be3ee3d55755c030508b63f8e5672ee Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538368/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:52:58 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:

Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1bf582065384737a975e206be6c030b Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538367/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:52:51 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:

Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1bf582065384737a975e206be6c030b Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538366/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:52:51 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:

Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 165709aff1080f95bc1d1f82b890f56e Caroline Edwards deposited From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse’s Liberation of Time in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538365/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:43:08 +0000 This article explores what Gershom Scholem has called Herbert Marcuse’s “unacknowledged ties to [his] Jewish heritage.” At the core of Marcuse’s vision of transformed, non-repressive social relations, I argue, is a struggle over time, which rests upon a distinctly Jewish approach to the twin questions of remembrance and redemption. One example…[Read more]

]]> 0 8246d95af2975822720e76a6ab59d74d Caroline Edwards deposited From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse’s Liberation of Time in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538364/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:43:01 +0000 This article explores what Gershom Scholem has called Herbert Marcuse’s “unacknowledged ties to [his] Jewish heritage.” At the core of Marcuse’s vision of transformed, non-repressive social relations, I argue, is a struggle over time, which rests upon a distinctly Jewish approach to the twin questions of remembrance and redemption. One example…[Read more]

]]> 0 46a920aafbd4977a3ab4a1af8a598ad0 Caroline Edwards deposited From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse’s Liberation of Time in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538363/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:42:54 +0000 This article explores what Gershom Scholem has called Herbert Marcuse’s “unacknowledged ties to [his] Jewish heritage.” At the core of Marcuse’s vision of transformed, non-repressive social relations, I argue, is a struggle over time, which rests upon a distinctly Jewish approach to the twin questions of remembrance and redemption. One example…[Read more]

]]> 0 0216b3b5e0304558b9b4164785a5e702 Caroline Edwards deposited From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse’s Liberation of Time https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538362/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:42:53 +0000 This article explores what Gershom Scholem has called Herbert Marcuse’s “unacknowledged ties to [his] Jewish heritage.” At the core of Marcuse’s vision of transformed, non-repressive social relations, I argue, is a struggle over time, which rests upon a distinctly Jewish approach to the twin questions of remembrance and redemption. One example…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8a12d32b58748845e5f211e50a18eb2 Caroline Edwards's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538361/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:33:11 +0000 0 354b8b11678dd2811942fbbc87f76277 Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538348/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:30:00 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1356ccc3bf9db67f4003d4b0e09331e Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538347/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:29:53 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f10f0842ad212fec4bce69ba10e6cee Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538346/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:29:51 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b8fbbbc03d99dbf1402e6a7d89a2145 Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538345/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:29:46 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb761dc9f43d7e2d735f7c4944b226b2 Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538344/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:29:34 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]

]]> 0 a98700e4dc41779236391bc3628582e5 Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538343/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:29:33 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]

]]> 0 39d6bd3116c6ae5abb9d71a264f6af52 Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538342/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:19:11 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]

]]> 0 085f852853291993205d3f4a1cbb4e31 Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group TC Marxism, Literature, and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538341/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:19:05 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]

]]> 0 a712197b5a933c83258930f6f4db7fd9 Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538340/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:19:03 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a70c2361b48072fa6b91d9af7b345df Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538339/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:18:57 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]

]]> 0 53693443ea5c10efc0b6b8a9a21b1079 Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538338/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:18:45 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]

]]> 0 30b15a3d0a4dd7244954aa2f0e4b0978 Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538337/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:18:44 +0000 In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c94684a35c1855b5f76d9460cce430c Caroline Edwards's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538336/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:01:15 +0000 0