zachgibson5
@zachgibson5.bsky.social
The original one-stop-shop furniture mover/literary critic.
Theory of the novel/20th C. Am Lit./Utopian Studies
Do not pack your books in a big box.
Theory of the novel/20th C. Am Lit./Utopian Studies
Do not pack your books in a big box.
November 24, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Gearing up for a winter side project
(ty @contramundumpress.bsky.social for help running these down 😊)
(ty @contramundumpress.bsky.social for help running these down 😊)
November 24, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Gearing up for a winter side project
(ty @contramundumpress.bsky.social for help running these down 😊)
(ty @contramundumpress.bsky.social for help running these down 😊)
Do not cross the picket line!!!
November 21, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Do not cross the picket line!!!
Seahorse. Trout. Halibut.
Poet. Philosopher. Critic.
Poet. Philosopher. Critic.
November 21, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Seahorse. Trout. Halibut.
Poet. Philosopher. Critic.
Poet. Philosopher. Critic.
Fiction +Theory/Phil. Chopping blocks. Return to old faves + jumping into new fixations on both ends
November 21, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Fiction +Theory/Phil. Chopping blocks. Return to old faves + jumping into new fixations on both ends
from @annakornbluh.bsky.social 's Immediacy -- thinking about the shift from meta- to autofiction as a renewal of northrop frye's cyclical literary seasons -- drift away from maximum fragmentation/irony + toward unity/myth as a swing from Frye's winter/satire + toward comedy/spring pairings
November 21, 2024 at 3:20 PM
from @annakornbluh.bsky.social 's Immediacy -- thinking about the shift from meta- to autofiction as a renewal of northrop frye's cyclical literary seasons -- drift away from maximum fragmentation/irony + toward unity/myth as a swing from Frye's winter/satire + toward comedy/spring pairings
Four forms of postmodern cynicism:
November 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Four forms of postmodern cynicism:
@njdames.bsky.social on narration v. discourse in the 18th c. novel...would like to read alongside Jameson's reading of 19th c. realism that drifts more toward juggling narration/affect (and couches its essayistic discourse through characters rather than authorial intrusion)
November 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM
@njdames.bsky.social on narration v. discourse in the 18th c. novel...would like to read alongside Jameson's reading of 19th c. realism that drifts more toward juggling narration/affect (and couches its essayistic discourse through characters rather than authorial intrusion)
Good stuff from Johnathan Kramnick's *Criticism and Truth* -- goes double for summary as well...as scholarship moves farther and farther from a central canon where critics can no longer assume an audience's familiarity with a given text, well crafted summary/quotation can make or break an article
November 15, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Good stuff from Johnathan Kramnick's *Criticism and Truth* -- goes double for summary as well...as scholarship moves farther and farther from a central canon where critics can no longer assume an audience's familiarity with a given text, well crafted summary/quotation can make or break an article
There's a great Balti Sun piece on the Gardner visit to JHU that tipped the two of them over the edge -- sounds like that's about how it went!
+ really a heartbreaker that mid-size market newspaper graphic design like this isn't coming back :(
+ really a heartbreaker that mid-size market newspaper graphic design like this isn't coming back :(
November 15, 2024 at 1:31 AM
There's a great Balti Sun piece on the Gardner visit to JHU that tipped the two of them over the edge -- sounds like that's about how it went!
+ really a heartbreaker that mid-size market newspaper graphic design like this isn't coming back :(
+ really a heartbreaker that mid-size market newspaper graphic design like this isn't coming back :(
aaaaand here's a sampling of their correspondence getting out of hand from Barth's archive at the Hopkins library.
November 15, 2024 at 1:02 AM
aaaaand here's a sampling of their correspondence getting out of hand from Barth's archive at the Hopkins library.
a-And! Here's a 1975 pic of #Barth with #JohnGardner (+Vonnegut) before their public feud went totally buck a couple years later
November 15, 2024 at 1:02 AM
a-And! Here's a 1975 pic of #Barth with #JohnGardner (+Vonnegut) before their public feud went totally buck a couple years later
stoked to see Angel in the Forest back in print.
(++ i've got a piece on Young's utopianism forthcoming -- keep an eye out for something fun)
(++ i've got a piece on Young's utopianism forthcoming -- keep an eye out for something fun)
November 15, 2024 at 12:14 AM
stoked to see Angel in the Forest back in print.
(++ i've got a piece on Young's utopianism forthcoming -- keep an eye out for something fun)
(++ i've got a piece on Young's utopianism forthcoming -- keep an eye out for something fun)
Four ft. cactus w/ ratchet straps and blanket stack
November 15, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Four ft. cactus w/ ratchet straps and blanket stack