English 575 New Historicism (Winter 2007)
fag rag book?
I’m writing my final paper for English 575 (it’s finishing up nicely), and I just read: An entire book could and should be devoted to the influential sensibility showcased in Fag Rag. (7) Hmmmm… Moore, Patrick. Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
i love researching!
And I love it even more when I decide, what the heck, I’ll go back to the library’s website and do a new search with a different keyword, and lo and behold: Brouwer, Daniel. “Counterpublicity and Corporeality in HIV/AIDS Zines.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 22.5 (Dec. 2005): 351-371.
some notes from gallagher and greenblatt
On New Historicism: Does this mean that we have constituted ourselves as, in the words of a detractor, “the School of Resentment”? Not at all: we are, if anything, rather inclined to piety. Nonetheless, any attempt at interpretation, as distinct form worship, bears a certain inescapable tinge of aggression, however much it is qualified by [...]
what’s a zine?
I haven’t been posting enough about my academic work recently, partially due to being too busy, partially due to being too stressed emotionally and intellectually, and partially due to a great weekend. My friend Luke and I went to California for the weekend, where I did research in the UC Davis archives for a day [...]
