Justin Prystash
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Prystash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Prystash |
| SIGNATURE | PRYSTASH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7838-8327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reality Games
This essay examines “dimensional fiction,” a genre that emerged in response to the philosophy of Absolute idealism and the mid-nineteenth-century development of non- Euclidean geometry. By surveying the works of the late Victorian writers and mathematicians Edwin A. Abbott and Charles Howard Hinton, their literary descendants in the 1980s, A.K. Dewdney and Orson Scott Card, and the twenty-first-century video games that serve as the latest expansi…
Self-Effacing Barbie
This article argues that the immediate critical responses to the blockbuster film Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023), which diverged along ideological lines, fail to account for the extent to which the film undercuts the very ideological divisions that sustain them. Rather than or in addition to presenting a left-wing or right-wing critique of contemporary gender roles, the film positions this contest within the vexed relationship between the ideal and …
Leaning from the Human
This essay argues that Virginia Woolf's Flush (1933) and Olaf Stapledon's Sirius (1944)—novels that focus on the representation of canine consciousness—can be read as a riposte to the reductive materialism of John B. Watson's behaviorism. Following in the wake of Watson's ridicule of anthropomorphism and the "stream of consciousness" (indeed, any consciousness at all), Woolf and Stapledon embrace these techniques as they work to affirm the sexual…
Vectors of a Flea
This essay examines three late-nineteenth-century novels- The Autobiography of a Flea, Black Beauty , and Beautiful Joe -that muddle the pornography and animal autobiography genres, revealing how representations of inter-species violence and sexuality were used to narrativize evolution and dissolve the ontological divide between human and animal
Sexual Futures
The Grand Still Mirror of Eternity”
When Carlyle praises “wondrous Dualism” in Past and Present , he invokes a model for conceptualizing man's role in the world that held widespread, even hegemonic currency in mid-Victorian culture. The centrality of dualist discourse during the mid-Victorian period, thanks in part to Carlyle's translations of German literature and philosophy in the 1830s, cannot be overstated. Carlyle argues that dualism transhistorically frames all human activity…
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The Grand Still Mirror of Eternity”
When Carlyle praises “wondrous Dualism” in Past and Present , he invokes a model for conceptualizing man's role in the world that held widespread, even hegemonic currency in mid-Victorian culture. The centrality of dualist discourse during the mid-Victorian period, thanks in part to Carlyle's translations of German literature and philosophy in the 1830s, cannot be overstated. Carlyle argues that dualism transhistorically frames all human activity…
Sexual Futures
Vectors of a Flea
This essay examines three late-nineteenth-century novels- The Autobiography of a Flea, Black Beauty , and Beautiful Joe -that muddle the pornography and animal autobiography genres, revealing how representations of inter-species violence and sexuality were used to narrativize evolution and dissolve the ontological divide between human and animal
Leaning from the Human
This essay argues that Virginia Woolf's Flush (1933) and Olaf Stapledon's Sirius (1944)—novels that focus on the representation of canine consciousness—can be read as a riposte to the reductive materialism of John B. Watson's behaviorism. Following in the wake of Watson's ridicule of anthropomorphism and the "stream of consciousness" (indeed, any consciousness at all), Woolf and Stapledon embrace these techniques as they work to affirm the sexual…
Self-Effacing Barbie
This article argues that the immediate critical responses to the blockbuster film Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023), which diverged along ideological lines, fail to account for the extent to which the film undercuts the very ideological divisions that sustain them. Rather than or in addition to presenting a left-wing or right-wing critique of contemporary gender roles, the film positions this contest within the vexed relationship between the ideal and …
Reality Games
This essay examines “dimensional fiction,” a genre that emerged in response to the philosophy of Absolute idealism and the mid-nineteenth-century development of non- Euclidean geometry. By surveying the works of the late Victorian writers and mathematicians Edwin A. Abbott and Charles Howard Hinton, their literary descendants in the 1980s, A.K. Dewdney and Orson Scott Card, and the twenty-first-century video games that serve as the latest expansi…
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