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[…]perspective, adhering to these commitments unconditionally is what constitutes human autonomy, Tillman’s prose prompts us to adjudicate by making ethical distinctions between socially admirable and socially abhorrent obsessive behaviors in ways that challenge certain tenants of liberalism, such as the primacy of the autonomous, reasonable individual. Tillman’s cognitive fictions allow for what most conventional narrative realism doesn’t – the space and time of turbulent thinking. Streetwise Elizabeth may not be a psychoanalyst, but the well-read copyeditor speculates about a “survival instinct” in terms strikingly similar to Freud’s description of the pleasure principle. Here’s Elizabeth, on our all-too-human capacity for cruelty: […]
[…]Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture. Eds. Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock. Berkeley, Los Angeles &: University of California Press, 1992. 298-315. Print. Stein, Gertrude. “Composition as Explanation.” 1926. The Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Ed. Karl Van Vechten. New York: Vintage, 1990. Print. Tillman, Lynne. American Genius, A Comedy. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2006. Print. —. The Broad Picture: Essays. New York: Serpent’s Tail, 1997. Print. —. Cast in Doubt. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Print. —. “Like Rockets and Television.” The Broad Picture: Essays. New York: Serpent’s Tail, 1997. 3244. Print. —. […]
[…]American now, living here now. (Tillman, qtd in Crawford) As several reviewers have pointed out, Lynne Tillman’s fifth novel, American Genius, A Comedy (2006) “parodies and undermines” (Homes), but also makes use of, the “jam-packed Great American Novel” (Winter). In examining just how it does this, I read American Genius, A Comedy both in the broad context of the GAN – its history and ideology, ranging from Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) to Stein’s The Making of Americans (1925) to more recent works such as DeLillo’s Underworld (1997) – and in the context of Tillman’s earlier explorations of American history and literature, […]
[…]1986. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York: Scribner, 2003. Freeman, John. “Lynne Tillman: The author who inspired the Manhattan avant-garde.” The Independent (16 August 2010). Gijswijt-Hofstra and Roy Porter. Ed. Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001. Glissant, Edouard. Faulkner, Mississippi. Trans. Barbara Lewis and Thomas C. Spear. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Kafka, Franz. Letters to Felice. Trans. James Stern and Elizabeth Duckworth. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Judgement. Trans. and introd. J. H. Bernard. New York: Hafner Press, 1951. Kundera. Milan. Encounter. […]
[…]and on the sidewalk.I discuss this topic at length in “Recognition as a Depleted Source in Lynne Tillman’s Motion Sickness” and in Chapter Four of A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction. But if the narrating consciousness is unmistakably locked in the present, from whence arises the sense of critique so pervasive in Tillman’s novels? By critique here, I don’t mean simply “to judge critically” or “to make unfavorable judgment,” but also mean “careful judgment or observation [in a] nice, exact, accurate, precise, punctual” fashion (OED). Precisely this punctual observation forms the fabric of Tillman’s narrating […]
[…]Press, 1998. 12-27. Print. Ellmann, Lucy. “Woman Worrier.” Rev. American Genius, A Comedy, Lynne Tillman. The New York Times Book Review 8 Oct. 2006: n.pag. Web. 14 Oct. 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Ellmann.t.html Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “The Birthmark.” Great Short Works of Hawthorne. Ed. Frederick C.Crews. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. 300-317. Nell, Sharon Diane. “Sadistic and Masochistic Contracts in Voltaire’s La pucelle d’Orléans and Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne; or What Does the Hymen Want?” Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism. Ed. Greg Forter and Paul Allen Miller. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008. 195-224. Print. Rose, Jacqueline. States of Fantasy. London: […]
[…]of English at the State University of New York-Oswego. Her contribution to the casebook on Lynne Tillman’s American Genius, A Comedy here bridges her early investigations into skin as a test of feminist theories about discursive materiality and her current research on im/migration, sexuality, and the […]
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[…]Rasmussen, a collection of critical essays on and around American Genius: A Comedy, by novelist Lynne […]
[…]sculpture, despite the similarities Tomasula is fond of pointing out. Among Tomasula’s authors, Lynne Tillman, Maso, Mark Z. Danielewski, Percival Everett, Nathaniel Mackey, George Saunders and Mullen are often anthologized and paid nicely for campus visits, their work rarely lands on bestseller lists (a problem thematized in Everett’s Erasure [2001]) and often even campus syllabi. As Martin Paul Eve has suggested and the earlier Jameson quotation proposed, their work is inhospitable to the methods of interpretation that remain dominant in most literature classrooms, and the great majority of entries are not the stuff of book clubs. There are few institutional […]