BOOKS by Jonathan Elmer

Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe more books like this

by Jonathan Elmer

The work of Edgar Allan Poe and his true place in the literary canon continues to provoke debate. Many critics have been puzzled as to how Poe can stand simultaneously as the germinal figure of a central modernist trajectory (leading via Baudelaire to French Symbolism and thence to the high modernism of Eliot and others) and as the acknowledged ...

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In the Event more books like this

by Professor Hayden White, Wai Chee Dimock, Jonathan Elmer

September 11, the subway bombings in Europe, and Hurricane Katrina occurred in rapid succession. The outsized relationship between their historical significance and chronological span also marked these episodes as 'events'. Focusing on the recent rise of 'the event' as a form of experience and its simultaneous re-emergence as a central term in ...

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On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World more books like this

by Jonathan Elmer

What are we talking about when we talk about sovereignty? Is it about formal legitimacy or practical authority? Does it require the ability to control the flow of people or goods across a border; is it primarily a principle of international recognition; or does its essence lie in the power to regulate the lives of a state's citizens? Political ...

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