Zak Sitter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zak Sitter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zak |
| FAMILY NAME | Sitter |
| SIGNATURE | SITTER Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Inorganic Intentions
While Romantic organicism has long been an object of interest, this article argues that it is through the figure of the inorganic that Romantic writing grapples most revealingly with its ambivalence toward human intentionality. I first focus on William Lawrence's 1816 lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons and two contemporary texts – Coleridge's unpublished Theory of Life, and Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein – which respond to Lawrence's ma…
The Native Performant
This article builds on postcolonial critiques of colonialism's reliance on the figure of the ``native informant.'' In early-nineteenth-century Britain, the emergent discipline of orientalism required the native informant to ratify its claims to knowledge; at the same time, orientalism was a key component of Romantic reimaginings of language as a productive force. While the native informant guarantees the referential truth of colonial discourse, t…
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The Native Performant
This article builds on postcolonial critiques of colonialism's reliance on the figure of the ``native informant.'' In early-nineteenth-century Britain, the emergent discipline of orientalism required the native informant to ratify its claims to knowledge; at the same time, orientalism was a key component of Romantic reimaginings of language as a productive force. While the native informant guarantees the referential truth of colonial discourse, t…
Inorganic Intentions
While Romantic organicism has long been an object of interest, this article argues that it is through the figure of the inorganic that Romantic writing grapples most revealingly with its ambivalence toward human intentionality. I first focus on William Lawrence's 1816 lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons and two contemporary texts – Coleridge's unpublished Theory of Life, and Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein – which respond to Lawrence's ma…
Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Curse (1 work) · Historical Philosophy and Science (1 work) · History (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Orientalism (1 work) · Performative utterance (1 work)