Wai chee dimock weak theory

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. But here sovereign theory runs into an obvious problem. Wai chee dimock is william lampson professor of english and american studies at yale university. Jan 31, 20 there is something funny about how the word theory is used in the social sciences, and especially the humanities.

There is something funny about how the word theory is used in the social sciences, and especially the humanities. On march th she will speak on endangered humanities and endangered planet. Wai cbee dimock a theory of resonance wai chee dimock is professor of english and american studies at yale university. Since 2006 and the publication of wai chee dimocks through other continents. Produced by johns hopkins university press in collaboration with the sheridan libraries. P h louisiana state university d gender studies, fall. After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality.

Lev manovich, the language of the new media cambridge, ma. Mar, 2018 wai chee dimock is this years guest speaker. Wai chee dimock, 1998 essay award recipient dactyl. Wai chee dimock department of comparative literature. Anker is associate professor of english and associate member of the faculty of law at cornell university. Wai chee dimock s 16 research works with citations and 162 reads, including. 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. M ark m c g url is professor of english at stanford university. Virtual roundtable ondescription in the novel public books. The theory advocates that advertising is strong enough to increase peoples knowledge and change their attitudes. Distinguished professor and international chair of transcultural theory at tsinghua. P h louisiana state university d gender studies, fall 2009. 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. New directions in law and literature oxford university press.

Postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing see also. 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. Lecture 14 faulkners as i lay dying, part ii overview. Wai chee dimocks 16 research works with citations and 162 reads, including. 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. 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. William lampson professor of american studies and professor of english. 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. Lowbar networks, fuzzy genres, minimal criticism, and low epic.

Sex reassignment surgery in thailand, jillana enteen, northwestern university. Her online teaching, centered on an opensource platform, features course material from several classes, an annual graduate conference, and a teaching initiative, dsl. As a taxonomy, a teleology, or something looser, rangier. Responses to the special issue on weak theory, part ii. 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. 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. It is about a class of phenomena more generally observable, phenomena that id. 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.

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. 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. Mark mcgurl, pluralisms of postwar american fiction wai chee dimock, weak. 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. 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. Yet scholars have largely ignored the cognitive processes audiences use to interpret messages. 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.

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. P, 2001and others, the morphological aspect of genre, and indeed narrative have conflatedsee, n. Amst 246 lecture 14 faulkners as i lay dying, part ii. Impact of advertising with two action theories strong and. Against the sometimes fuzziness of what weak theory may mean to the field lots of things. Wai chee dimock is the author of through other continents 3. 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. 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. New directions in law and literature furnishes an overview of. This collection of essays, featuring twentytwo prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting its many new directions. It encourages an interdisciplinary approach linking music, architecture, the visual arts, literature, and social and intellectual history. Dec 01, 2019 the weak theory discussion has provoked a range of responses in modernist studies, available at the modernismmodernity print plus venue.

Read this article to learn about the impact of advertising with two action theories strong and weak theory. Modernismmodernity focuses on the methodological, archival, and theoretical approaches particular to modernist studies. David bourget western ontario david chalmers anu, nyu area editors. Project muse modernismmodernityvolume 25, number 3. Thoreau and the sixth extinction, and on march 15th she will speak on weak environmentalism. Wai chee dimock, william lampson professor of english and american studies at yale university, has written widely on american literature. 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. 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. A consumer passes through the stage of awareness, interest, desire and action aida. New directions in law and literature by elizabeth s. Quietness, white noise and the metamorphosis of mediated subjectivity, matt jordan, penn state comparing surgery literatures. Partly cited in philip selznick 1948, 25 the study of administration. 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. Wai chee dimock has written on american literature of every period, from anne bradstreet to star trek.

Edgar allan poe, 1845, and the invention of american. But the book that im working on, weak theory, is not a strictly americanist book. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. 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. 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.

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 has published widely on american literature of every period, and. 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. Wai chee dimocks research works yale university, ct yu. 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. 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. One hears of attempts to theorize gender, or power, or postcoloniality, or the erotic, and anything else one can think of. 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. She has published widely on american literature of every period, and is best known for through. Professor wai chee dimock traces faulkners appropriation of the epic genre through two conventions. Gilgamesh on three continents, waichee dimock, yale university wiring ourselves for sound.