Tuesday, January 10, 2012


Luddites, Saboteurs, Monkeywrenchers, Weathermen, Provocateurs, and Double Agents are enigmatic and elusive targets for the literary critic.  This course will track the literary saboteur, identifying textual evidence to apprehend the logic of material and semiotic direct action. 




ENG 413/513 students, please use this blog to claim your critical articles for the class!
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22 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2012 at 1:17 PM

    I call dibs on "Satire in Gore Vidal's Kalki," by Charles Berryman. -Lindsay H.

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  2. SelinaJanuary 10, 2012 at 2:07 PM

    Dibs on "A proliferation of bad shit: informational entropy, politics and The Crying of Lot 49" by Mark T. Decker -Selina P

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  3. E. TaylorJanuary 10, 2012 at 3:44 PM

    I've got "Aestheticism and Awareness: The Psychology of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Scott Slovic.

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  4. Amanda MetcalfeJanuary 16, 2012 at 7:30 AM

    Dibs on "Anarchist miracles: distributed communities, nodal subjects and The Crying of Lot 49" by Phillip Gochenour. -Amanda M

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  5. Samuel Thomas PhillipsJanuary 17, 2012 at 2:57 PM

    I've got "His own worst enemy" by Maureen Bodo (because Lindsay found the ONLY journal article on Kalki on the planet).

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  6. Alice LesperanceJanuary 17, 2012 at 11:15 PM

    "Men and nostalgia for violence: culture and culpability in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club" by Kevin Alexander Boon.

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  7. HeatherJanuary 18, 2012 at 7:41 AM

    I call dibs on "What Is Called Ecoterrorism" by Lawrence Buell.

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  8. JimmecquaJanuary 18, 2012 at 9:51 AM

    I call dibs on "Disturbing the Silence: Sound Imagery in Conrad's The Secret Agent" by Deborah McLeod

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  9. ArogilawAndrusJanuary 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM

    I will be using "Satire in Gore Vidal's Kalki" by Charles Berryman.

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    1. J-BishJanuary 18, 2012 at 1:40 PM

      "Literature of Living Water" by Jimmie M Killingsworth

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  10. jamesJanuary 18, 2012 at 2:38 PM

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  11. jamesJanuary 18, 2012 at 2:43 PM

    "Cruel Devourer of the World's Light": The Secret Agent Elliott B Gose, Jr
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/2932833

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  12. Candice HardwickJanuary 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM

    I will be using "Neither Literally nor as Metaphor: Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49 and the Social Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Frank Palmeri.

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  13. Musing MattJanuary 24, 2012 at 7:24 PM

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  14. jamesFebruary 13, 2012 at 9:14 PM

    would love to see a link to "Aestheticism and Awareness: The Psychology of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Scott Slovic

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  15. Candice HardwickFebruary 28, 2012 at 7:52 PM

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  16. Candice HardwickFebruary 28, 2012 at 8:01 PM

    Here is the link to the article I am doing for "The Crying of Lot 49."

    http://ezproxy.montevallo.edu:2057/stable/2873106?&Search=yes&searchText=49&searchText=Lot&searchText=Crying&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DThe%2BCrying%2Bof%2BLot%2B49%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=1314&returnArticleService=showFullText

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  17. SelinaFebruary 29, 2012 at 2:07 PM

    Here is the link to the article I'm doing my paper on.
    http://ezproxy.montevallo.edu:2147/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=LitRC&userGroupName=mont41605&tabID=T001&searchId=R1&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=11&contentSet=GALE|A168162270&&docId=GALE|A168162270&docType=GALE&role=LitRC

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  18. amyMarch 1, 2012 at 10:15 PM

    I am doing my paper on the article "De)Constructing the Image: Thomas Pynchon's Postmodern Woman" for The Crying of Lot 49

    Here is the link: http://ezproxy.montevallo.edu:2328/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=c23a9d48-bb81-4220-9352-cff6e3eecaab%40sessionmgr10&vid=8&hid=21

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  19. Musing MattMarch 8, 2012 at 6:47 AM

    Found a great article.
    "Fight Club and the Embedding of Delirium in Narrative"

    http://ezproxy.montevallo.edu:2328/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=13&sid=54f69af4-c775-4248-8d4b-201a6fb654bc%40sessionmgr15&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=45583330

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  20. UnknownApril 18, 2012 at 2:36 AM

    Overthrowing Vengeance:
    The Role of Visual Elements in V for Vendetta
    by Pedro Moreira

    http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/3903.pdf?q=vengeance

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