HASTAC Commons | James Gifford | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/gifford/activity/ Activity feed for James Gifford. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7a5e589f2f7c8a944b5991db53f7af2a James Gifford wrote a new post, Tying Three Loops: A Spell for the Modrybedd, on the site James Gifford https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/?p=314 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:05:00 +0000 Each year at Christmas I sew up some chapbooks for friends and family with bits of poetry or CNF I’ve published during the year. This piece poured out after reading Daniel Mendelsohn while thinking about […]

]]> c8558dd4a8c02e711d9af5c87f13ac77 James Gifford wrote a new post, Terrace Nostoi, on the site James Gifford https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/?p=339 Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:45:29 +0000 (first published in the Quarantine Review 2021)

Near the southern tip of Alaska, in a tiny propeller plane jostled by turbulence, I flew back into Terrace. I was seated beside a crying baby. He cried like […]

]]> 23fbbca2395d95e53db5fe0e5e989697 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1920512/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:14:54 +0000 0 0a92e00c6875cd51a3ccc3b14541f869 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1916547/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:48:14 +0000 0 ffc07214a14e8dcc070822a224216b2b James Gifford's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1911612/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:10:38 +0000 0 321b4385234763316556aae1aa00f158 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1905900/ Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:24:03 +0000 0 d3262fc0332a3bd43724c844898540d5 James Gifford's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1905451/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:51:44 +0000 0 6b50869a6d790f16b53d4bef6f610876 James Gifford deposited "The Frontiers of Love" and Queer Literature of Place: Sexual and Territorial Ambiguity in Durrell's Novels in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897543/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:00:02 +0000 My title queers Lawrence Durrell’s notion of “spirit of place,” the idea that identity is protean and has more to do with embeddedness in place than any essentialist or fixed being. To do so, this article reads two passages in Durrell’s novel Monsieur that link sexuality and colonialism by presenting similar ambiguities. The novel’s formal in…[Read more]

]]> 0 b48cbc2490fafa1dbccaff5c51c3de79 James Gifford deposited "The Frontiers of Love" and Queer Literature of Place: Sexual and Territorial Ambiguity in Durrell's Novels https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897456/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:43:35 +0000 My title queers Lawrence Durrell’s notion of “spirit of place,” the idea that identity is protean and has more to do with embeddedness in place than any essentialist or fixed being. To do so, this article reads two passages in Durrell’s novel Monsieur that link sexuality and colonialism by presenting similar ambiguities. The novel’s formal in…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac2c11ff00d59d5ad5f30d8110194ad6 James Gifford's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1896104/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:37:26 +0000 0 1edf7684119c351cabfa072c9e16505d James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855763/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:29:28 +0000 0 dd2e26f3c64a47ac6cd87f228d45ae69 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841492/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:00:51 +0000 0 6c78c2c3cc00e0bb9358b5edd9474cf5 James Gifford's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1820962/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 03:09:12 +0000 0 5ed29d78a3acbb55e589f64238136829 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793062/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:56:45 +0000 0 d11145ca7176ac086360c183af8d5616 James Gifford deposited The Sealed Book of the Future: The Collected Prose of Edward Taylor Fletcher in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791046/ Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:26:09 +0000 This digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher’s works. The ideas that drove Fletcher’s creative works are on display here,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6bae9f152fe9bd770b0465d34924d13 James Gifford deposited The Sealed Book of the Future: The Collected Prose of Edward Taylor Fletcher in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791045/ Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:25:56 +0000 This digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher’s works. The ideas that drove Fletcher’s creative works are on display here,…[Read more]

]]> 0 b147623e47ba6013ef95a42580fd9538 James Gifford deposited The Sealed Book of the Future: The Collected Prose of Edward Taylor Fletcher in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791044/ Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:25:27 +0000 This digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher’s works. The ideas that drove Fletcher’s creative works are on display here,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fb0b16e516826d4afa788265aca72df James Gifford deposited The Sealed Book of the Future: The Collected Prose of Edward Taylor Fletcher https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790952/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:20:08 +0000 This digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher’s works. The ideas that drove Fletcher’s creative works are on display here,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5229d4372a37532f4301d31dd89d1338 James Gifford deposited Durrell’s Delta and Dylan Thomas’ ‘Prologue to an Adventure’ in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774918/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:51:48 +0000 In 1939, Keidrych Rhys charged that Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” was reprinted “in Delta (Paris) without acknowledgement… without permission”; however, Ralph Maud contrarily argues “Durrell, as editor of Delta, asked Thomas for contributions and published something by him in all three issues” (123). Thomas’ letters support the latter…[Read more]

]]> 0 b69b78111654a6113ee5cf34b982dda7 James Gifford deposited Durrell’s Delta and Dylan Thomas’ ‘Prologue to an Adventure’ in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774917/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:48:43 +0000 In 1939, Keidrych Rhys charged that Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” was reprinted “in Delta (Paris) without acknowledgement… without permission”; however, Ralph Maud contrarily argues “Durrell, as editor of Delta, asked Thomas for contributions and published something by him in all three issues” (123). Thomas’ letters support the latter…[Read more]

]]> 0 8685238958b21ad1227102790a90add8 James Gifford deposited Durrell’s Delta and Dylan Thomas’ ‘Prologue to an Adventure’ https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774795/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 02:00:01 +0000 In 1939, Keidrych Rhys charged that Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” was reprinted “in Delta (Paris) without acknowledgement… without permission”; however, Ralph Maud contrarily argues “Durrell, as editor of Delta, asked Thomas for contributions and published something by him in all three issues” (123). Thomas’ letters support the latter…[Read more]

]]> 0 84322ab0d21ae78d2c17317beed6e13d James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773877/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:37:17 +0000 0 4b613b10c870c7154e0db73c2ee90761 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759457/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:34:08 +0000 0 e0d4ecc0fead6da0fe624bfda6317499 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1753482/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:49:01 +0000 0 f33b3c166295f95008f48776f1c5ac70 James Gifford posted a new activity comment https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/2020/02/03/on-reading-monsters/#comment-100291 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 02:10:49 +0000 Well, that’s a start! The article still has several errors, but editors at Wikipedia (or other readers) can have very deep set opinions. It’s the nature of the beast, I suppose… Maybe I’ll try updating it, but I’m sure someone will revert things or change them eventually.

I’d like to say academics never do such things, but I suppose it’s p…[Read more]

In reply to - James Gifford wrote a new post, On Reading Monsters, on the site James Gifford Modernist Monsters I’ve made a terrible mistake… As a scholar of modernist literature, the idea of reading monsters isn’t surpr […] ]]> ca75c92ae8085d5cf2d1b8b29606fa3e James Gifford posted a new activity comment https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/2020/02/03/on-reading-monsters/#comment-100289 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 02:06:31 +0000 That’s very kind, Steve, and I’m glad that the article was helpful to you.

In reply to - James Gifford wrote a new post, On Reading Monsters, on the site James Gifford Modernist Monsters I’ve made a terrible mistake… As a scholar of modernist literature, the idea of reading monsters isn’t surpr […] ]]> 7ee74ad0a8636d748ea9d072adda1399 James Gifford posted a new activity comment https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/2020/02/03/on-reading-monsters/#comment-100288 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 02:05:20 +0000 I understand those feelings, John. In a strange way, I think his profound failures as a father eventually led to the kind of writing that was meaningful for the reasons you outline. The productive reintegration of criminals into the community is a very difficult thing, especially for anyone who has been a victim. But could we imagine a good…[Read more]

In reply to - James Gifford wrote a new post, On Reading Monsters, on the site James Gifford Modernist Monsters I’ve made a terrible mistake… As a scholar of modernist literature, the idea of reading monsters isn’t surpr […] ]]> 43bb31bfa076007792cbe2112bcae179 James Gifford posted a new activity comment https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/2020/02/03/on-reading-monsters/#comment-96618 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:37:05 +0000 Thanks for your comments, Travis. For what it’s worth, I was adopted in the 70s, so my sympathies are very clear here. We readers invest a lot in our authors, but it may be helpful to remember that the books that hold meaning for you are not the author nor the author’s life. They can have meaning for you all on their own (and evidently his…[Read more]

In reply to - James Gifford wrote a new post, On Reading Monsters, on the site James Gifford Modernist Monsters I’ve made a terrible mistake… As a scholar of modernist literature, the idea of reading monsters isn’t surpr […] ]]> 19e740f7c3f02209c3a258cc2f8852dd James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725561/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:58:22 +0000 0 23907383661248bc5515547f56897aea James Gifford deposited WRIT 1002 V3/V4S (Spring 2021) https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723535/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:16:33 +0000 This course provides students with intensive study and practice in process-oriented writing, critical reading, and rhetorical inquiry. Students engage expository texts in order to describe and evaluate the choices writers make and then apply that knowledge to their own compositions. Throughout the course, students give and receive feedback, revise…[Read more]

]]> 0 b284e4d5a46521c60aa4c9ae887585bc James Gifford posted a new activity comment https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/2020/02/03/on-reading-monsters/#comment-67669 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:21:27 +0000 I’m glad it was helpful, Greg. This can be a hard thing with any writer since their works outlive themselves, and we’re left with just the work.

In reply to - James Gifford wrote a new post, On Reading Monsters, on the site James Gifford Modernist Monsters I’ve made a terrible mistake… As a scholar of modernist literature, the idea of reading monsters isn’t surpr […] ]]> 560699d68c3897d9a63dd26d7a23e397 James Gifford's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1700508/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:44:39 +0000 0 a9e001d9d18924e4e225f0db708119b9 James Gifford deposited Political & Social History of Music (Study Guide PDF) in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691934/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:26:07 +0000 An introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All…[Read more]

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]]> 0 126896d9ec4be5105147216f0390efef James Gifford posted a new activity comment https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/2020/02/03/on-reading-monsters/#comment-32178 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 06:27:11 +0000 Hi Barb (correct?) – I appreciate your comment very much. To be candid, I felt I’d signaled where my sympathies lie when I noted that I’m also an adopted child and thought about how my own life could easily have been quite different. That was very much part of what concerned me while I was thinking through this piece (and also as a father th…[Read more]

In reply to - James Gifford wrote a new post, On Reading Monsters, on the site James Gifford Modernist Monsters I’ve made a terrible mistake… As a scholar of modernist literature, the idea of reading monsters isn’t surpr […] ]]> face5953efa69d8b08032a3b9ed9c36d James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679081/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 03:59:47 +0000 This critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]

]]> 0 c48e670e5a1c1e336568a2b5c59b8919 James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679080/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 03:55:00 +0000 This critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]

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]]> 0 86856fde6f5762ffc01b49e7745c84e6 James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group Modernist Studies Association https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679077/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 03:54:12 +0000 This critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c49184d5f75ba12ea56a460796b476e James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679076/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 03:49:21 +0000 This critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]

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]]> 0 e8d93604d170926fc3260fa89a404869 James Gifford wrote a new post, On Reading Monsters, on the site James Gifford https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/?p=249 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:02:46 +0000 Modernist Monsters

I’ve made a terrible mistake… As a scholar of modernist literature, the idea of reading monsters isn’t surprising. We accustom ourselves to knowing the great figures of our academic disci […]

]]> 0698b426c1d2d05b62134d49ee2e6490 James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group Theory and Modernism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1672843/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:33:39 +0000 “A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]

]]> 0 839e65925e4a6eb90c040206d8afd0b9 James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1672842/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:31:33 +0000 “A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c8337746eb22436b8acb88c837c001c James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1672841/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:31:24 +0000 “A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]

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