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Nonprofit Poetry: Lewis MacAdams and the Art of Environmental Bureaucracy 非营利诗歌:刘易斯-麦克亚当斯与环境官僚艺术
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae070
Nick Earhart
Poet Lewis MacAdams is widely regarded as a founder of the movement to restore the Los Angeles River, a 51-mile concrete drainage channel that once served as the region’s primary water source. His nonprofit organization Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR) began as a one-off performance art piece in 1985. Scholars in urban planning and geography have addressed FoLAR as a case study for grassroots environmentalism, but little attention has been paid to the interplay between poetry and politics in MacAdams’s work. Given that MacAdams described FoLAR as a “forty-year artwork to bring the Los Angeles River back to life,” it is worth entertaining the quixotic premise that a nonprofit could double as a conceptual artwork or performance poem. If we consider his literary efforts in conversation with his activism, the premise seems less far-fetched. In this essay, I trace MacAdams’s path from the New York School to the poets’ enclave of Bolinas, California, in the 1970s to the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River. I argue that he devised political-poetic strategies to intervene in planning bureaucracies and that FoLAR should be understood as a durational utopian experiment, pursuing transformative possibilities from within dispiriting everyday conditions.
诗人刘易斯-麦克亚当斯(Lewis MacAdams)被广泛认为是恢复洛杉矶河运动的创始人,这条长达 51 英里的混凝土排水道曾是该地区的主要水源。他的非营利组织 "洛杉矶河之友"(FoLAR)始于 1985 年的一个一次性行为艺术作品。城市规划和地理领域的学者将 FoLAR 作为草根环保主义的案例进行了研究,但很少有人关注麦克亚当斯作品中诗歌与政治之间的相互作用。鉴于麦克亚当斯将 FoLAR 描述为 "历时四十年、旨在让洛杉矶河重获生机的艺术作品",我们不妨假设一个非营利组织可以兼具概念艺术作品或行为诗歌的双重身份。如果我们将他的文学创作与他的行动主义结合起来考虑,这个前提似乎就不那么牵强了。在这篇文章中,我追溯了麦克亚当斯从纽约学派到 20 世纪 70 年代加利福尼亚州波利纳斯诗人飞地,再到洛杉矶河混凝土河岸的创作之路。我认为,他设计了政治-诗歌策略来干预规划官僚机构,《FoLAR》应被理解为一个持续的乌托邦实验,在令人沮丧的日常条件下追求变革的可能性。
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Consuming Consumption 消费
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae077
Nicky Marsh
This essay reviews four recent works examining the cultural politics of consumption. It explores the methodological and theoretical distinctions and commonalities between three works which share an historical focus. It notes the different emphases suggested by historians, sociologists, and literary critics but emphasises their shared concern with understanding the complex agency of consumption as it is can be found specifically in cultural representations. The essay also notes the persistence of the theoretical divide between these historical studies, which identify consumption as a site of ambivalent possibility and even resistance, and contemporary accounts that regard it as a site of commodification and expropriation of the self.
这篇文章回顾了近期四部研究消费文化政治的作品。文章探讨了以历史为重点的三部作品在方法论和理论上的区别与共性。文章注意到历史学家、社会学家和文学评论家提出的不同侧重点,但强调他们共同关注的是如何理解消费的复杂机制,因为这种机制具体体现在文化表征中。文章还指出,这些历史研究将消费视为一种矛盾的可能性甚至抵抗的场所,而当代研究则将消费视为商品化和征用自我的场所,两者之间的理论分歧依然存在。
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Losing the West, Finding Western Worlds 失去西方,寻找西方世界
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae075
Audrey Goodman
“Losing the West, Finding Western Worlds” explores how recent critical work in Western American studies breaks apart the region’s foundational myths and invites readers and reviewers to revise understandings of this popular, enduring, and protean genre. Reflecting on four studies that interrogate Western American fiction, film, and comic books (two monographs by British scholars Mark Asquith and Neil Campbell; a study of the Black Western by film historian Mia Mask; and a collection of essays edited by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol on varieties of comic book westerns produced around the world), the essay considers how this diverse cohort of scholars pursues a common imperative to unlearn “the West” and sets new directions for literary and cultural studies of the region. Through rereadings of the work of writers and actors who fracture and reassemble the heroic settler narrative from the perspective of outsiders, these critics contend, the West can emerge as a place whose stories offer more complete understandings of the past, whose heroes illuminate the political challenges of the present, and whose writers provide the right words for imagining a better future.
"失去西部,发现西部世界 "探讨了美国西部研究领域近期的批评性工作如何打破该地区的基础神话,并邀请读者和评论家修正对这一流行、持久、多变的流派的理解。这篇文章通过对美国西部小说、电影和漫画的四项研究(英国学者马克-阿斯奎斯(Mark Asquith)和尼尔-坎贝尔(Neil Campbell)的两部专著;电影历史学家米娅-马斯克(Mia Mask)对黑人西部片的研究;以及克里斯托弗-康威(Christopher Conway)和安托瓦内特-索尔(Antoinette Sol)编辑的关于世界各地西部片漫画种类的论文集)进行反思,探讨了这批不同的学者是如何为解除对 "西部 "的认识这一共同目标而努力的,并为该地区的文学和文化研究确定了新的方向。这些评论家认为,通过重读作家和演员的作品,他们从局外人的视角打破并重新组合了定居者的英雄叙事,从而使西部成为这样一个地方:它的故事提供了对过去更完整的理解,它的英雄照亮了当下的政治挑战,它的作家为想象更美好的未来提供了正确的语言。
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Evangelical Time, Separatism, and the “Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole” 福音派时间、分离主义和 "内森-科尔的精神旅行"
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae078
Rachel Trocchio
This essay intercedes in our understanding of the temporal formations that characterized New England’s Great Awakening (1730s-1740s). It takes as its case study the Connecticut farmer Nathan Cole, whose spiritual new birth scholarship has been seen as prototypical of both the instantaneity and the affect of evangelical conversion. This essay contests the predominance of these figurations of the awakenings. Offering literary criticism’s first full engagement with Cole’s archive, rather than keeping to well-known short extracts from his “Spiritual Travels,” it posits the interval as the temporal and literary form that structures Cole’s writing. The essay thus reads Cole’s narrative as something more than a lay account that testifies to evangelical feeling, arguing that his writing instead exhibits continuities with seventeenth-century habits of thought. Particularly, it traces how Cole’s writing carries into the eighteenth century Puritan labors to apprehend doctrines (such as predestination) that were, fundamentally, matters of time. In treating Cole’s text as a document of theological heft and temporal consciousness, as well as spiritual encounter, this essay also asks scholars to consider how turning toward cognitive aspects of devotion provokes our field’s understanding of genre, time, and evangelical experience.
这篇文章有助于我们理解新英格兰大觉醒(17 世纪 30 年代至 17 世纪 40 年代)的时间形态。文章以康涅狄格州农民内森-科尔(Nathan Cole)为研究对象,他的精神新生学术研究被视为福音派皈依的瞬间性和影响的典型。这篇文章对这些觉醒形象的主导地位提出了质疑。这篇文章是文学评论首次全面接触科尔的档案,而不是局限于其《灵游记》中众所周知的短篇摘录,它将时间间隔假定为结构科尔写作的时间和文学形式。因此,这篇文章将科尔的叙事解读为证明福音派情感的非专业叙述,认为他的写作与 17 世纪的思维习惯具有连续性。特别是,该书追溯了科尔的写作如何将清教徒理解教义(如宿命)的努力带入十八世纪,而这些教义从根本上说是时间问题。这篇文章将科尔的文本视为神学重心和时间意识以及灵性相遇的文献,同时也要求学者们思考转向奉献的认知方面如何引发我们对体裁、时间和福音派经验的理解。
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What’s Past is Prologue: Democracy in the Age of Originalism 前事不忘,后事之师:原创主义时代的民主
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae071
Geoffrey R Kirsch
This essay reviews three recent books grappling with the history and meaning of US constitutional democracy, written in a time when an originalist, conservative Supreme Court serves as the Constitution’s final arbiter. Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today, edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski, and The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story, by Kermit Roosevelt III, strive to appropriate originalist methods toward progressive ends. By contrast, Cass R. Sunstein’s How to Interpret the Constitution evinces a pragmatic skepticism of any such historically bound modes of interpretation. The tension between these approaches, I suggest, has shaped US constitutional discourse since the nineteenth century.
这篇文章回顾了最近出版的三本书,它们探讨了美国宪政民主的历史和意义,这三本书写于一个原教旨主义、保守的最高法院充当宪法最终仲裁者的时代。美国的民主:D. Berton Emerson 和 Gregory Laski 编辑的《美国的民主:十九世纪和今天的关键词》和《从未有过的国家》:克米特-罗斯福三世(Kermit Roosevelt III)所著的《从未有过的国家:重构美国的故事》(The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story)一书努力将原典主义方法用于进步目的。相比之下,卡斯-R-孙斯坦(Cass R. Sunstein)的《如何解释宪法》(How to Interpret the Constitution)则对任何此类受历史约束的解释模式持务实的怀疑态度。我认为,自 19 世纪以来,这些方法之间的紧张关系一直影响着美国的宪法论述。
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The Power of Caricature, Caricatures of Power 漫画的力量,权力的漫画
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae073
Ian Haywood
This review article assesses three new books on the “Golden Age” of caricature in Britain and the United States: Tim Clayton’s James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire (2022), Amanda Lahikainen’s Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire (2022), and Alison M. Stagg’s Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828 (2023). The article considers how satirical cartoons simultaneously educated and entertained the public about important issues, such as political corruption, nation building, and the perils of a credit economy based on paper money.
这篇评论文章评估了三本关于英国和美国漫画 "黄金时代 "的新书:蒂姆-克莱顿(Tim Clayton)的《詹姆斯-吉尔雷》(James Gillray:A Revolution in Satire》(2022 年)、Amanda Lahikainen 的《Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire》(2022 年)和 Alison M. Stagg 的《Prints of a New Kind:美国的政治漫画,1789-1828 年》(2023 年)。文章探讨了讽刺漫画如何同时就政治腐败、国家建设和以纸币为基础的信用经济的危害等重要问题对公众进行教育和娱乐。
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Progressive Originalism and the New Canon Wars 进步原创主义与新法典之争
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae074
Almas Khan
This essay responds to Geoffrey Kirsch’s review essay “What’s Past is Prologue: Democracy in the Age of Originalism” by evaluating how the three texts Kirsch reviews—Kermit Roosevelt, III’s The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story (2022), Cass R. Sunstein’s How to Interpret the Constitution (2023), and D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski’s edited collection Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today (2023)—engage with progressive originalism. Drawing inspiration from civil rights activists including Frederick Douglass, progressive originalists seek to recast an ostensibly conservative method of constitutional interpretation grounded in what the “founding fathers” or a historical public thought or intended. Roosevelt’s and Sunstein’s books reveal the potential and limits of both progressive originalism and insular disciplinary conversations about constitutional interpretation. Contrastingly, the multidisciplinary Democracies in America has a more expansive conception of whose voices should matter when interpreting the Constitution through a progressive originalist lens. A comparative analysis of the three books also demonstrates the value of literature and literary historians in an age characterized by the ascendancy of historical approaches to constitutional interpretation and a revival of the “canon wars.”
本文对 Geoffrey Kirsch 的评论文章 "What's Past is Prologue:通过评估 Kirsch 评论的三本著作--Kermit Roosevelt, III 的《从未有过的国家》(The Nation That Never Was:重构美国的故事》(2022 年)、Cass R. Sunstein 的《如何解释宪法》(2023 年)以及 D. Berton Emerson 和 Gregory Laski 编辑的文集《美国的民主》:十九世纪和今天的关键词》(2023 年)--与进步的原创主义进行了互动。进步原创论者从弗雷德里克-道格拉斯(Frederick Douglass)等民权活动家那里汲取灵感,试图以 "开国元勋 "或历史公众的想法或意图为基础,重塑一种表面上保守的宪法解释方法。罗斯福和孙斯坦的著作揭示了进步原创主义和关于宪法解释的孤立学科对话的潜力和局限性。与此形成鲜明对比的是,多学科的《美国的民主》一书对通过进步原创主义视角解释宪法时谁的声音更重要有了更广阔的概念。对这三本书的比较分析还表明了文学和文学史学者在以历史方法解释宪法和 "法典战争 "复兴为特点的时代的价值。
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The Fruits of the LOA LOA 的成果
IF 0.4 2区 文学 N/A LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae076
John N Duvall
The marketing claims of the Library of America (LOA) reveal that this institution functions within the tradition of such middlebrow publishing ventures as The Harvard Classics and the Modern Library. All such ventures assure consumers that cultural cache can be theirs through brand loyalty. LOA’s brand identity, however, is fraught with contradictions. While claiming to continue the legacy of highbrow literary critic Edmund Wilson, LOA increasingly publishes volumes devoted to pulp genres that would have been anathema to Wilson. While English departments have been questioning notions of the canon throughout LOA’s history, the publisher, founded in 1980, insists that its books define the canon of US literature. The professoriate, however, has largely ignored LOA’s claims regarding great literature because the publisher also claims to uphold the standards of great scholarship. These brand contradictions serve as a context for assessing a recent addition to LOA’s core collection, William Faulkner: Stories, edited by Theresa M. Towner. I contrast Towner’s editorial methods with those of Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk, who edited LOA’s five volumes of Faulkner’s novels between 1985 and 2003, in order to address what we mean when we say a text is authoritative and corrected.
美国图书馆(LOA)的营销主张表明,该机构是在哈佛经典和现代图书馆等中产阶级出版企业的传统下运作的。所有这些企业都向消费者保证,他们可以通过品牌忠诚度获得文化快感。然而,LOA 的品牌形象却充满了矛盾。一方面,LOA 声称要继承高尚文学评论家埃德蒙-威尔逊(Edmund Wilson)的传统,另一方面,LOA 却越来越多地出版一些对威尔逊来说是大逆不道的纸质文学作品。虽然英语系一直在质疑LOA历史上的正典概念,但这家成立于1980年的出版商却坚持认为自己的图书定义了美国文学的正典。然而,教授们在很大程度上忽视了LOA关于伟大文学的主张,因为该出版社也声称要坚持伟大学术的标准。这些品牌自相矛盾的现象可以作为评估LOA的核心藏书《威廉-福克纳:故事》(William Faulkner: Stories)的背景,该书由Theresa M. Towner编辑。我将汤纳的编辑方法与约瑟夫-布洛特纳(Joseph Blotner)和诺埃尔-波尔克(Noel Polk)的编辑方法进行对比,他们在1985年至2003年间编辑了LOA的五卷福克纳小说集,以探讨当我们说一个文本是权威的、经过校正的时候,我们的意思是什么。
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Aaron Sachs, Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times 亚伦-萨克斯(Aaron Sachs),《从深渊往上走》:赫尔曼-梅尔维尔、刘易斯-芒福德和黑暗时代的再发现
IF 0.4 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae023
Cody Marrs
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Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology, edited by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner 海地革命小说:选集》,Marlene L. Daut、Grégory Pierrot 和 Marion C. Rohrleitner 编辑
IF 0.4 2区 文学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae020
Philip Kaisary
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