The way we once learned history is now history.
Representations editorial board members David Henkin and Rebecca McLennan have just published a new US history survey, Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century.
The way we once learned history is now history.
Representations editorial board members David Henkin and Rebecca McLennan have just published a new US history survey, Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century.
For literary readers, the categories of the denotative, literal, and technical do not, cannot, or should not exist. No language can be denotative or literal for us, since language, above all literary language, never means what it says, pace recent attempts to declare otherwise. A purely technical language would be the opposite of the language of the literary text: operational in precisely the way the literary text is not. We do not use Heart of Darkness as a sailing manual or a handbook for the extraction of natural resources from colonized places, and we have no doubt that those who treat Thomas Hardy’s novels as travel guides to southwestern England are missing the point (although a large tourist industry does thus operationalize them, and quite successfully)….
–Elaine Freedgood and Cannon Schmitt
Continue reading this introduction to Representations 125, the special issue Denotatively, Technically, Literally, here.
SPECIAL ISSUE: Denotatively, Technically, Literally
Edited by Elaine Freedgood and Cannon Schmitt
ELAINE FREEDGOOD AND CANNON SCHMITT
Denotatively, Technically, Literally
IAN DUNCAN
George Eliot’s Science Fiction
ELAINE FREEDGOOD
Ghostly Reference
CANNON SCHMITT
Technical Maturity in
Robert Louis Stevenson
RACHEL SAGNER BUURMA AND LAURA HEFFERNAN
Notation After the ‘‘Reality Effect’’:
Remaking Reference with
Roland Barthes and Sheila Heti
MARGARET COHEN
Denotation in Alien Environments:
The Underwater Je Ne Sais Quoi