HASTAC Commons | James Elkins | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/jameselkins/activity/ Activity feed for James Elkins. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:11:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4bfed950be7dc69e6d16f95bf8ac3c0c James Elkins posted an update: Join our international reading group! Georges Perec’s L […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898803/ Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:39:10 +0000 Join our international reading group! Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, one of the world’s strangest (and most accessible) books. We will read everything: his own notes for the book, his lists of self-imposed constraints, the scholarship, the different translations, the books he read. “Fun.” It’s an informal group, for everyone—readers, write…[Read more]

]]> 0 4531021439e6e644fb48cb44c9d78037 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/groups/writing-systems/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-9/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:19:08 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 79b4551c5356e081059d5a9d2da48bd5 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Philosophy https://hcommons.org/groups/philosophy/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-8/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:18:41 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 44311407bb3caf9064ea1cb44e648369 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/groups/literary-translation/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-7/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:18:14 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 11e69faf9a8e1f3ef5fd45eb2dd1a856 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/groups/irish-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-6/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:17:47 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 7594a7b04b87f9cb67184f5d9453ed27 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-linguistics-and-language-study/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-5/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:17:20 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 44263435911cdabf98493b3089c262a9 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-4/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:16:53 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 44f2027995e0743ab8e45a4df1df4ad2 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion German Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/groups/german-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-3/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:16:26 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f0039df1dc3ad8f45ed52c5771d3682 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-2/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:15:58 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 b87baa1c853a40b4b9a4117c8f0f5b5d James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanists/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:15:26 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. This p…[Read more]

]]> 0 82ab9a9badae03c4223529ff1f632588 James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591147/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:53:11 +0000 Very short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]

]]> 0 da97981b4bb5e2de3c8746755b38d10d James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group Theory and Modernism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591146/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:53:01 +0000 Very short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bf868122043744f159b4af7bf88edcd James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591145/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:47:38 +0000 Very short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fa51e5db205a7cae4c388e61ef51c8a James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591144/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:39:32 +0000 Very short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]

]]> 0 712a4d27ef23db912ba26594d7de4e12 James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591143/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:39:31 +0000 Very short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]

]]> 0 459a731bce6243e607b6b6a0db43b639 James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591111/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:30:03 +0000 Very short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4bf19854106fbbe5c84ee82c76b33ea James Elkins's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578062/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:43:28 +0000 0 4da014dd7c487cb7470c228eb3ba9803 James Elkins posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573126/#acomment-1575455 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:04:13 +0000 Thanks for pointing me to the Gaddis novel — I haven’t read it. I’ll have a look.

In reply to - James Elkins deposited On the Limits of Wit and of Plotting in Maximalist Novels: Notes on Sergio De la Pava, Naked Singularity in the group American Literature The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are […] ]]> 063516c3c8239fa63473ed612bcd271b James Elkins deposited Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1574000/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 01:16:05 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 0559700f3c613aa1610b1af7df92a83e James Elkins deposited Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin in the group RCWS History and Theory of Composition https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573999/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 01:13:39 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 b3d56b080373b2615339462348a4b4c7 James Elkins deposited When Novels are Too Comforting: Thoughts on Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto" in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573998/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 01:13:21 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

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]]> 0 9bb55a92eb9d645961690ace1bc54847 James Elkins deposited A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson's "The Peripheral" in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573996/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 01:00:28 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 2d2954ef6b7e2fd3882b9ff0a429673f James Elkins deposited A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson's "The Peripheral" in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573995/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 01:00:00 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 7ceba05f3e2ba7b60c8d1379f82b42b7 James Elkins deposited What Is a Fragment of / in Fiction? Thoughts on Pierre Senges's "Fragments of Lichtenberg" in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573902/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:23:15 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

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]]> 0 1c41605ebccf8390429147e2ce16925a James Elkins deposited The "Finnegans Wake of Russia," And Its Translation Problems: On Sasha Sokolov's "Between Dog and Wolf" in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573900/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:18:00 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 513a4204b71437bda8eb0e3d3e14c2e5 James Elkins deposited The "Finnegans Wake of Russia," And Its Translation Problems: On Sasha Sokolov's "Between Dog and Wolf" in the group Theory and Modernism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573899/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:17:49 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 3e9beb3a9e2ebe8f0b266e50553b3322 James Elkins deposited Why Write Average Books? On Julian Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending" in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573898/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:14:56 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

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]]> 0 b5ea68809ed9718c604303693b2226ae James Elkins deposited The Prehistory of Constrained Writing: Thoughts on Michel Butor's "Degrees, A Novel" in the group Theory and Modernism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573896/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:14:34 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

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]]> 0 c82af7a5babc4d78f2204306c25aa118 James Elkins deposited The Prehistory of Constrained Writing: Thoughts on Michel Butor's "Degrees, A Novel" in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573894/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:06:35 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 b807c1cccce147db7c1eac06723d94db James Elkins deposited Compulsively Fractal Writing and Its Limits: Thoughts on Stephen Dixon, and Especially "Frog" in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573893/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:03:30 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

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]]> 0 cff7ba4082933d6e614e676c11ac415f James Elkins deposited Frantic Cleverness as a Style: Notes on Nell Zink's "The Wallcreeper" in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573890/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:00:12 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 a3da047dbf89f92fba186f6f3dfa08a2 James Elkins deposited On the Aesthetic Pleasure and Fictive Nature of Footnotes: Nabokov's 1,200 Pages of Commentary on Eugene Onegin in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573889/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:00:04 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 e6bc761666440fdd1389d89b32c545bd James Elkins deposited What it Means to Write a Novel After Novels Have Ended: Thoughts on Bolano's "By Night in Chile" in the group TC Translation Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573827/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 01:25:45 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

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]]> 0 e2d13f3564c001372a37b701e4871802 James Elkins deposited Representing a Ruined Mind in Fiction; and a Note on How Google Ruins Reading: On Markson's "Reader's Block" in the group TM Language Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573822/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 01:08:35 +0000 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

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