David B Hobbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 1636177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David B Hobbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | David B |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobbs |
| SIGNATURE | HOBBS D B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
SpongeBob, Meme Laocoön
The 1506 CE recovery of the Laocoön and His Sons statue group provoked a crisis of interpretation. In The Aeneid, Vergil had described Neptune punishing the Trojan priest—for drawing attention to the possible treachery of the Greeks’ Horse—by summoning “two huge coiled snakes” to bite and crush him and his sons: “His shrieks of agony rose to the sky, / As when a bull escapes the altar, shedding / The ax that was half-buried in his neck.”1 But the…
Lyric Commodification in McKay’s Morocco
Reassessing Claude McKay’s writing about North Africa, this article contends that McKay saw sites in this region as uniquely felicitous to staging conversations between global socialism and the Black diasporic avant-garde. His attention to site-specific interracial urban cultures serves as a counterpoint to the Depression-fueled Pan-Africanism that increasingly defined W. E. B. Du Bois’s editorials for the Crisis. At the same time, McKay’s persis…
An attempt at an inexhaustible site in Lower Manhattan
Date: 18 February 2014Time: 7:35 pmLocation: 186 Vernon Ave., Brooklyn, NYWeather: IndoorsThere are many things in Place Saint-Sulpice.... A great number, if not the majority, of these things have be
An attempt at an inexhaustible site in Lower Manhattan
Date: 18 February 2014Time: 7:35 pmLocation: 186 Vernon Ave., Brooklyn, NYWeather: IndoorsThere are many things in Place Saint-Sulpice.... A great number, if not the majority, of these things have be
An attempt at an inexhaustible site in Lower Manhattan
Date: 18 February 2014Time: 7:35 pmLocation: 186 Vernon Ave., Brooklyn, NYWeather: IndoorsThere are many things in Place Saint-Sulpice.... A great number, if not the majority, of these things have be
Lyric Commodification in McKay’s Morocco
Reassessing Claude McKay’s writing about North Africa, this article contends that McKay saw sites in this region as uniquely felicitous to staging conversations between global socialism and the Black diasporic avant-garde. His attention to site-specific interracial urban cultures serves as a counterpoint to the Depression-fueled Pan-Africanism that increasingly defined W. E. B. Du Bois’s editorials for the Crisis. At the same time, McKay’s persis…
SpongeBob, Meme Laocoön
The 1506 CE recovery of the Laocoön and His Sons statue group provoked a crisis of interpretation. In The Aeneid, Vergil had described Neptune punishing the Trojan priest—for drawing attention to the possible treachery of the Greeks’ Horse—by summoning “two huge coiled snakes” to bite and crush him and his sons: “His shrieks of agony rose to the sky, / As when a bull escapes the altar, shedding / The ax that was half-buried in his neck.”1 But the…
History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Commodification (1 work) · Counterpoint (1 work) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (1 work) · Economy (1 work) · Environmental Science (1 work) · French Literature and Poetry (1 work)