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2004

21-Oct-2004
Is There a Language Problem?

R.M. Berry on the recuperation of politicized language, in (and through) the fiction of Marianne Hauser and Lidia Yuknavitch.

20-Oct-2004
Form and Emotion

Author Lucy Corin opposes the emotionalism of genre fiction to the deeply emotional formalism in the fiction of Harold Jaffe, Patricia Eakins, and Janet Kauffman.

19-Oct-2004
Markku Eskelinen's response to Julian Raul Kucklich

Markku Eskelinen reiterates the bounds of ludology.

18-Oct-2004
Mister Squishy, c'est moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion

Kiki Benzon on narrative ecology and the "fradulence paradox" of Oblivion.

26-Sep-2004
a Joseph McElroy festschrift

Andrew Walser introduces a gathering of essays on and by the novelist Joseph McElroy.

25-Aug-2004
A Poetry of Noesis

On Joseph McElroy's Fiction as a lifelong, dramatic investigation of noesis - that abstract but evocative concept rooted in Platonic idealism and redefined(through Phenomenology) as those ineluctable acts of consciousness that constitute reality.

25-Aug-2004
If It Could Be Wrapped

Excerpted from Water Writing - an essay; presented as part of the ebr Critical Ecologies thread; concurrent with a literary Festschrift in honor of Joseph McElroy's lifework.

24-Aug-2004
History as Accretion and Excavation

Paul Gleason on Joseph McElroy's mid-career epic, Women and Men, as contrasted with Don DeLillo's Underworld.

23-Aug-2004
McElroy's "Letter"

Charles Molesworth on style and spatial form in McElroy's Letter Left to Me, a novel whose poetic making is also an ethical growth.

22-Aug-2004
Being Inside the Sentence

Gregg Biglieri reads "into" Actress in the House and revels in Joseph McElroy's syntax.

20-Aug-2004
Re-opening Hind's Kidnap

Joseph Milazzo writes about one of the least written about books by Joseph McElroy.

19-Aug-2004
God Help Us

A Review of Malise Ruthven's A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, from Tim Keane, with links to a growing body of writing on terror in ebr.

19-Aug-2004
Weight Inward into Lightness: A Reading of Canoe Repair

"The plot offers not so much progress as recurrence, duplication, and reiteration." Flore Chevaillier offers one way to fill in the gaps of Joseph McElroy "Canoe Repair."

18-Aug-2004
Joseph McElroy's Cyborg Plus

Salvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.

17-Aug-2004
Vectoral Muscle in a Great Field of Process

Yves Abrioux approaches Woman and Men (1987) as an extended novelistic medition on cognition and action.

10-Aug-2004
Adrian Miles responds to Hypertexts and Interactives

Adrian Miles on themes of print vs. digital, engagement vs. immersion, easy vs. difficult, and affect vs. effect, as they appear in section five of First Person.

05-Aug-2004
Front to the Future: Joseph McElroy's Ancient History

Ian Demsky on Joseph McElroy's Ancient History and welcome interruptions.

11-Jul-2004
Game Theories

It's "Game Time." Here in section four we see what the dynamics of time and space have to do with the games people play.

The Female Narrator

Judy Malloy on the voice of female narrators.

27-Jun-2004
Critical Simulation

Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.