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Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani and El Libro del Caballero Zifar
by David Wacks | 12.07.2015
Did the 'lady in the lake' motif of Arthurian legends make it to Castilian via an Arabic chivalric tradition? 
Enter Anthropocene, c.1610
by Steve Mentz | 12.01.2015
Rather than marking the advent of "modernity," the year 1610 commemorates a wave of permanent human-induced changes to the Earth system. 
A Tale of Two Prometheuses (II): Against the False Idols of Accelerationism
by Anthony Galluzzo | 11.25.2015
To prevent social and ecological disaster, an alternative Prometheanism requires a turn away from power, production and profit towards a new relationship to necessity and the natural world. 
Gamal al-Ghitani: In Memoriam (1945-2015)
by Mohammad Salama | 11.20.2015
Homage to a renowned Egyptian novelist whose work resonates both in Egypt and abroad. 
NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0
by Kathryn Hume | 11.18.2015
Heard of National Novel Generating Month? Algorithms are being used to create texts not written by humans that are hauntingly beautiful.
A Tale of Two Prometheuses in Many Parts
by Anthony Galluzzo | 11.16.2015
The myth of Prometheus has multiple incarnations proposing distinct ideologies of progress. 
Obsessed, adj.
by Hannah Walser | 11.05.2015
The first iteration of a series on "metaphors of mind" in the pop imaginary. 
Error: Stabs at an Ecological Dynamic
by Steve Mentz | 10.29.2015
Living in Nature requires — and sometimes rewards — errancy.
Popular Andalusi literature and the Arthurian tradition in the Iberian Peninsula
by David Wacks | 10.27.2015
The first example of chivalric romance in the Iberian Peninsula was written in Arabic.  
Frost in translation
by William Flesch | 10.24.2015
A note on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's decision to "translate" Shakespeare's plays for a contemporary audience.

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Anthony Galluzzo
David Wacks
Eleanor Courtemanche
Gregory Jusdanis
Hannah Walser
Harris Feinsod
Joshua Landy
Kathryn Hume
Mike Chasar
Mohammad Salama
Natalia Cecire
Scott Ferguson and Mark L
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William Flesch
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21st-Century Marxisms
Locating Contemporary Asian American Poetry
Modernism's Unfinished Business?
Poetry after Language
The Nature of Literary Being
We, Reading, Now
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