Matt Erlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Erlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Erlin |
| SIGNATURE | ERLIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0536-7499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Geotropes
Conceptions of the literature of the Global South, and of India in particular, have been powerfully shaped by the work of a small number of well-known authors writing in English. The possible distortions resulting from this limited canon have garnered significant scholarly attention in the past two decades, which has typically focused on how works produced by these writers are shaped by their own positionality as well as the exigencies of caterin…
Multi-retranslation and cultural variation
Using English and Spanish translations of Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung ‘The metamorphosis’ as a case study, this article contributes to current discussions of retranslation, and of cross-linguistic approaches to retranslation in particular. Building on the work of such scholars as Matthew Reynolds and Tom Cheesman, the analysis uses computational methods to evaluate variance among translators across a range of English and Spanish translations. T…
Cultural Capitals
Conceived against the backdrop of ongoing debates regarding the status of national literary traditions in world literature, this essay offers a computational analysis of how national attention is distributed in contemporary fiction across multiple national contexts. Building on the work of Pascale Casanova, we ask how different national literatures engage with national themes and whether this engagement can be linked to one's position within a gl…
Crossing Over
Readers are never merely passive recipients of textual messages. One of themost powerful insights of reader-response theory in the 1970s and 1980s is that the meaning of a text never resides entirely within the artifact itself. Commentators from Carlo Ginzberg (“aggressive originality”), to Jauss (“horizon of ex-pectations”), to Fish (“interpretive communities”), and Radway (“Reading is notEating”) have long-since established that readers are cre…
Crossing Over
Readers are never merely passive recipients of textual messages. One of the most powerful insights of reader-response theory in the 1970s and 1980s is that the meaning of a text never resides entirely within the artifact itself. Commentators from Carlo Ginzberg ("aggressive originality"), to Jauss ("horizon of expectations"), to Fish ("interpretive communities"), and Radway ("Reading is not Eating") have long-since established that readers are cr…
Topic Modeling, Epistemology, and the English and German Novel
According to Rita Felski, context is overrated. Even in the sophisticated variants of contextualization typical of the New Historicism, she explains, scholars’ obsession with historical context as the ultimate source of textual meaning disregards the capacity of literature to resonate across time and space
The Eighteenth-Century Novel as Media Event
Useless Subjects
Products of the Imagination
Scholars have long been interested in the relationship between capitalism and early romantic aesthetics. The following investigation offers a fresh perspective on this topic through a reconsideration of the figure of the miner and the representation of mining in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Rather than elucidating this representation on the basis of general concepts like alienation and instrumental rationality, as has ofte…
Book Fetish
Consumer culture in eighteenth-century Europe has attracted a great deal of attention in the past decade, so much that consumption studies has itself become something of a growth market for scholars of the period (e.g. Berg and Clifford; Berg and Eager; Brewer and Porter; Smith). Ever since Neil McKendrick presented his controversial thesis regarding a “consumer revolution” in eighteenth-century England, social, cultural, and intellectual histori…
Goethe Yearbook 13
Doctor's Orders
Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment
Reluctant Modernism
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 63, Number 1, January 2002
Reluctant Modernism
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 63, Number 1, January 2002
Book Fetish
Consumer culture in eighteenth-century Europe has attracted a great deal of attention in the past decade, so much that consumption studies has itself become something of a growth market for scholars of the period (e.g. Berg and Clifford; Berg and Eager; Brewer and Porter; Smith). Ever since Neil McKendrick presented his controversial thesis regarding a “consumer revolution” in eighteenth-century England, social, cultural, and intellectual histori…
Reluctant Modernism
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 63, Number 1, January 2002
Doctor's Orders
Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment
Goethe Yearbook 13
Book Fetish
Consumer culture in eighteenth-century Europe has attracted a great deal of attention in the past decade, so much that consumption studies has itself become something of a growth market for scholars of the period (e.g. Berg and Clifford; Berg and Eager; Brewer and Porter; Smith). Ever since Neil McKendrick presented his controversial thesis regarding a “consumer revolution” in eighteenth-century England, social, cultural, and intellectual histori…
Useless Subjects
Products of the Imagination
Scholars have long been interested in the relationship between capitalism and early romantic aesthetics. The following investigation offers a fresh perspective on this topic through a reconsideration of the figure of the miner and the representation of mining in Friedrich von Hardenberg's Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Rather than elucidating this representation on the basis of general concepts like alienation and instrumental rationality, as has ofte…
The Eighteenth-Century Novel as Media Event
Topic Modeling, Epistemology, and the English and German Novel
According to Rita Felski, context is overrated. Even in the sophisticated variants of contextualization typical of the New Historicism, she explains, scholars’ obsession with historical context as the ultimate source of textual meaning disregards the capacity of literature to resonate across time and space
Crossing Over
Readers are never merely passive recipients of textual messages. One of themost powerful insights of reader-response theory in the 1970s and 1980s is that the meaning of a text never resides entirely within the artifact itself. Commentators from Carlo Ginzberg (“aggressive originality”), to Jauss (“horizon of ex-pectations”), to Fish (“interpretive communities”), and Radway (“Reading is notEating”) have long-since established that readers are cre…
Crossing Over
Readers are never merely passive recipients of textual messages. One of the most powerful insights of reader-response theory in the 1970s and 1980s is that the meaning of a text never resides entirely within the artifact itself. Commentators from Carlo Ginzberg ("aggressive originality"), to Jauss ("horizon of expectations"), to Fish ("interpretive communities"), and Radway ("Reading is not Eating") have long-since established that readers are cr…
Cultural Capitals
Conceived against the backdrop of ongoing debates regarding the status of national literary traditions in world literature, this essay offers a computational analysis of how national attention is distributed in contemporary fiction across multiple national contexts. Building on the work of Pascale Casanova, we ask how different national literatures engage with national themes and whether this engagement can be linked to one's position within a gl…
Multi-retranslation and cultural variation
Using English and Spanish translations of Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung ‘The metamorphosis’ as a case study, this article contributes to current discussions of retranslation, and of cross-linguistic approaches to retranslation in particular. Building on the work of such scholars as Matthew Reynolds and Tom Cheesman, the analysis uses computational methods to evaluate variance among translators across a range of English and Spanish translations. T…
Geotropes
Conceptions of the literature of the Global South, and of India in particular, have been powerfully shaped by the work of a small number of well-known authors writing in English. The possible distortions resulting from this limited canon have garnered significant scholarly attention in the past two decades, which has typically focused on how works produced by these writers are shaped by their own positionality as well as the exigencies of caterin…
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