Month: December 2022

A chapter “On Capital and Class with Balzac, James, and Fitzgerald” written by Erik S. Roraback. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will… Read More

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A book chapter by Erik S. Roraback, “The Anti-Modern James, Balzac and Barthes” as Chapter Fourteen, pp. 155–66, in Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century: Heritage and Transmission, eds. Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding.   This text focuses on Henry James’s, on Honoré de Balzac’s, and on Roland Barthes’s contributions to an anti-modern sensibility. This is demonstrated both in the light of Antoine Compagnon’s work on the antimodern in Les Antimodernes de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes (2005) and in its own discrete claims and terms, especially with regard to questions of experience, of entertainment culture and of the institution of a more general cultural sensibility; the… Read More

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  The Power of the Impossible surveys cultural figures from Spinoza to popular culture icon Ivan Lendl to illuminate the challenge and problem of establishing a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the creative life.   Published 2018 IFF Books: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/iff-books/our-books/power-of-impossible

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