Wai chee dimock has written on american literature of every period, from anne bradstreet to star trek. Professor wai chee dimock doctor of letters, honoris causa 20 professor wai chee dimock is a leader of innovation in literary studies and global pedagogy. Though waichee dimock understands the weak theory she elaborates in a recent article as an inheritance from robert boyle, one might see argumentative leakiness as a product not of seventeenthcentury empiricism, but of a writing subject that cant stop itself from dissolving into. P h louisiana state university d gender studies, fall. Professor wai chee dimock traces faulkners appropriation of the epic genre through two conventions. Project muse modernismmodernityvolume 25, number 3. Unlike many other writers on the same topic, dimock makes the claim that noise is positive, a necessary feature of a readers meaningmaking process. Sex reassignment surgery in thailand, jillana enteen, northwestern university. Partly cited in philip selznick 1948, 25 the study of administration. Lev manovich, the language of the new media cambridge, ma. In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, which is also often called the weak force or weak nuclear force, is the mechanism of interaction between subatomic particles that is responsible for the radioactive decay of atoms. Responses to the special issue on weak theory, part ii. What composition offers, instead of the strong dissonance between reality and illusion that powers the engine of critique, are the powers of what wai chee dimock has recently called weak theory.
William lampson professor of american studies and professor of english. Roundtable with wai chee dimock and eric hayot on weak theory, modernist studies association, november 2014 the sexual worldsystem, panelist, modern language association, january 2014 vague objects, panelist, modern language association, january 2014. David bourget western ontario david chalmers anu, nyu area editors. P h louisiana state university d gender studies, fall 2009. She has published widely on american literature of every period, and. Mark mcgurl, pluralisms of postwar american fiction wai chee dimock, weak. One hears of attempts to theorize gender, or power, or postcoloniality, or the erotic, and anything else one can think of. If you have access to this journal as a benefit of membership in the sponsoring organization, log in through the member link in the right column. The limits of critique, felski university of chicago press. There is something funny about how the word theory is used in the social sciences, and especially the humanities. The theory advocates that advertising is strong enough to increase peoples knowledge and change their attitudes. Wai chee dimock is william lampson professor of english and american studies at yale university.
Wai chee dimock, 1998 essay award recipient dactyl. The weak theory discussion has provoked a range of responses in modernist studies, available at the modernismmodernity print plus venue. Sociologist mark granovetters work on the strength of weak interpersonal ties is invoked in this issue by wai chee dimock, who has elsewhere called for theory that does not aspire to full occupancy in the analytic field, that settles for a low threshold in plausibility and admissibility. Anker is associate professor of english and associate member of the faculty of law at cornell university. Wai chee dimock, william lampson professor of english and american studies at yale university poetic thinking and epistemic vulnerabilities laurent dubreuil, professor of comparative literature, romance studies and cognitive science at cornell university. She has published widely on american literature of every period, and is best known for through. Lowbar networks, fuzzy genres, minimal criticism, and low epic. Postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing see also. Wai chee dimock is the author of through other continents 3.
Wai cbee dimock a theory of resonance wai chee dimock is professor of english and american studies at yale university. Wai chee dimock s 16 research works with citations and 162 reads, including. Aug 25, 2018 sociologist mark granovetters work on the strength of weak interpersonal ties is invoked in this issue by wai chee dimock, who has elsewhere called for theory that does not aspire to full occupancy in the analytic field, that settles for a low threshold in plausibility and admissibility. Produced by johns hopkins university press in collaboration with the sheridan libraries. Wai chee dimock s essay, a theory of resonance, which appeared in the october 1997 issue of pmla, offers the concept of noise as a provocative analogy for interpretive contexts. As a taxonomy, a teleology, or something looser, rangier.
Wai chee dimocks 16 research works with citations and 162 reads, including. Dec 01, 2019 the weak theory discussion has provoked a range of responses in modernist studies, available at the modernismmodernity print plus venue. But the book that im working on, weak theory, is not a strictly americanist book. Thoreau and the sixth extinction, and on march 15th she will speak on weak environmentalism. Wai chee dimocks essay, a theory of resonance, which appeared in the october 1997 issue of pmla, offers the concept of noise as a provocative analogy for interpretive contexts. Amst 246 lecture 14 faulkners as i lay dying, part ii. Virtual roundtable ondescription in the novel public books. She was appointed as the william lampson professor of english and american studies at yale university in 2003, a position she holds to this day.
As dimock writes, the ties that result do not amount to much, but they are also difficult to stamp out, a downstream cascade likely to grow weak network, 590. Stephen ross from uvic english kindly organized a brown bag session mod squad special session on the recent debates about weak theory in modernist studies. This field theory of metaphor helpfully elucidates the punitive workings of the novel, for it is this confluence of semantic fieldsthe multiple inscription of prohibition and penaltythat gives rise not only to the jurisdictional scope of the novel but also, i would. Wai chee dimock, for example, has proposed the concept of deep time, a map which thanks to its receding horizons, its backward extension into farflung temporal and spatial coordinates, must depart significantly from a map predicated on the short life of the us 759. But here sovereign theory runs into an obvious problem. Wai chee dimocks research works yale university, ct yu.
Since 2006 and the publication of wai chee dimocks through other continents. Yet scholars have largely ignored the cognitive processes audiences use to interpret messages. Modernismmodernity focuses on the methodological, archival, and theoretical approaches particular to modernist studies. Faulkners transpacific reparations offer a model of scholarly teaching often absent from such largescale reflections on field and theory as she generously rehearses meanings and key figures. New directions in law and literature oxford university press. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Distinguished professor and international chair of transcultural theory at tsinghua. She offers a nuanced description of the state of theoryheavy academic literary critique, and some proposals for how we might finally start to move beyond it. This series was established in memory of our beloved emeritus professor, barbara packer. American literature in the world united states, united states, united states, united states, united states, united states, united states, united states 2011present the project is a digital platform serving an undergraduate seminar, a webandprint anthology, and an annual graduate conference explores extended networks through many channels. New directions in law and literature by elizabeth s.
Jan 31, 20 there is something funny about how the word theory is used in the social sciences, and especially the humanities. Wai chee dimock, william lampson professor of english and american studies at yale university, has written widely on american literature. The weak interaction serves an essential role in nuclear fission, and the theory regarding it in terms of both its behavior and effects is sometimes. After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. On march th she will speak on endangered humanities and endangered planet. Lecture 14 faulkners as i lay dying, part ii overview. A consumer passes through the stage of awareness, interest, desire and action aida. Read this article to learn about the impact of advertising with two action theories strong and weak theory.
Drawing on native american studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities, dimock shows how hope can be found not in heroic statements but in incremental and. Weak theory, modernist studies association, pittsburgh, nov 8, 2014 rethinking world literature, connecticut college, oct 29, 2014 faulkner networked, harvard american studies workshop, oct 23, 2014. P, 2001and others, the morphological aspect of genre, and indeed narrative have conflatedsee, n. Her recent book, residues of justice u of california p, 1996, brings together three disciplinesliterature, philosophy, and lawto argue for the need to rethink the concept of justice. Against the sometimes fuzziness of what weak theory may mean to the field lots of things. Gilgamesh on three continents, waichee dimock, yale university wiring ourselves for sound. New directions in law and literature furnishes an overview of. Edgar allan poe, 1845, and the invention of american.
Wai chee dimock department of comparative literature. How to theorize the extended and continually changing relations among genres. Her online teaching, centered on an opensource platform, features course material from several classes, an annual graduate conference, and a teaching initiative, dsl. It is about a class of phenomena more generally observable, phenomena that id. This is the question wai chee dimock asks in weak planet, proposing a way forward, inspired by works that survive through kinship with strangers and with the nonhuman world. Embodying human rights in world literature cornell 2012, and her edited collection critique and postcritique with rita felski is forthcoming in march 2017 with duke university press. It encourages an interdisciplinary approach linking music, architecture, the visual arts, literature, and social and intellectual history. American literature across deep time, the concept of american literature as world literature has become increasingly popular, and it has been championed by other prominent scholars such as lawrence buell, susan stanford friedman, and paul giles.
She argues for a broad conception of literature, embracing a variety of time frames, bringing together materials both high and low, and scales both local and global. Sep 01, 2015 what composition offers, instead of the strong dissonance between reality and illusion that powers the engine of critique, are the powers of what wai chee dimock has recently called weak theory. The passages that i have chosen for the roundtable might seem surprising, since most of you know me as an americanist rather than a modernist. The metaphor of resonance often describes the fit between a message and an audiences worldviews. Mar, 2018 wai chee dimock is this years guest speaker. Impact of advertising with two action theories strong and. Quietness, white noise and the metamorphosis of mediated subjectivity, matt jordan, penn state comparing surgery literatures. Though waichee dimock understands the weak theory she elaborates in a recent article as an inheritance from robert boyle, one might see argumentative leakiness as a product not of seventeenthcentury empiricism, but of a writing subject that cant stop itself from dissolving into facebook from time to time. The scholarship and scholarly connections modeled by these collectives call to mind sociologist mark granovetters work on strength of weak ties, cited in wai chee dimock s essay. This field theory of metaphor helpfully elucidates the punitive workings of the novel, for it is this confluence of semantic fieldsthe multiple inscription of prohibition and penaltythat gives rise not only.
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