Joshua Kotin
Biographic Data
| ID | 279007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Kotin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotin |
| SIGNATURE | KOTIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7092-5840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets, Version 2.0
The Shakespeare and Company Project data sets provide a detailed portrait of Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris. This article outlines the research, data curation, and development that led to a major update of the data sets. Version 2.0 refines and augments the data sets included in Version 1.2, and adds two new datasets, focused on the authors of the books that circulated in the lending library…
A Counterfactual Canon
The article analyzes the relationship between gender and taste at Shakespeare and Company. Using the *Shakespeare and Company Project* datasets, we discover that the majority of the books in the lending library were by men, and that women were almost twice as likely as men to borrow books by women. We also discover that the female authors with a high ratio of male to female readers are now canonical: Agatha Christie, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Ste…
The World of Shakespeare and Company: An Introduction
What's left to learn about Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach's bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris? This introduction addresses this question by discussing the eight articles collected in the special cluster, "The World of Shakespeare and Company," co-published by the *Journal of Cultural Analytics* and *Modernism/modernity*. All eight articles use data from the *Shakespeare and Company Project* to develop new accounts of modernism…
Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets
This article describes three data sets from the Shakespeare and Company Project. The data sets provide information about Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris. The first data set focuses on the members of the lending library. The second, on the books that circulated in the lending library. The third, on the events—borrows, purchases, subscriptions, renewals, deposits, reimbursements—that connected …
Poems That Kill
Poems That Kill” examines the connection between poetry and revolution in Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art” (1965) and in general. The article tracks how Baraka uses poetry to start or advance a revolution in his own life, in the lives of his contemporaries, in poetry, in our present moment, and in the future. The article also discusses poetic address (how poems address readers), sincerity, ambiguity, and hate speech
Utopias of One
This book is a new account of utopian writing. It examines how eight writers—Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B. Du Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J. H. Prynne—construct utopias of one within and against modernity's two large-scale attempts to harmonize individual and collective interests: liberalism and communism. The book begins in the United States between the buildup to the Civil War and the e…
Utopias of One
Forum: The Cantos and Pedagogy The Cantos and Pedagogy
The argument of Kindellan and Kotin's essay, ‘The Cantos and Pedagogy’, is that, contrary to the prevailing critical view, The Cantos is not a pedagogical poem. More specifically, they argue that the poem rejects the idea that a methodological approach to knowledge is desirable. The Cantos is obsessed with who we are, not what we can learn. Put otherwise, the horizon of Pound's concern in The Cantos is ontological, not epistemological. Charles Al…
Response to Responses
From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from Godard and Truffaut to Spielberg and Eastwood
Two great movie directors were both born in 1930. One of them, Jean-Luc Godard, revolutionized filmmaking during his 30s and declined in creativity thereafter. In contrast, Clint Eastwood did not direct his first movie until he had passed the age of 40 and did not emerge as an important director until after he was 60. This dramatic difference in life cycles was not accidental, but was a characteristic example of a pattern that has been identified…
Filming Images or Filming Reality: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from D. W. Griffith to Federico Fellini
Why have some movie directors made important films early in their careers but subsequently failed to match their initial successes, whereas other directors have begun much more modestly but have made great movies late in life? The authors demonstrate that the answer lies in the directors' motivations and in the nature of their films. Conceptual directors, who use their films to express ideas or emotions, mature early; thus, such great conceptual …
Filming Images or Filming Reality: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from D. W. Griffith to Federico Fellini
Why have some movie directors made important films early in their careers but subsequently failed to match their initial successes, whereas other directors have begun much more modestly but have made great movies late in life? The authors demonstrate that the answer lies in the directors' motivations and in the nature of their films. Conceptual directors, who use their films to express ideas or emotions, mature early; thus, such great conceptual …
Filming Images or Filming Reality: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from D. W. Griffith to Federico Fellini
Why have some movie directors made important films early in their careers but subsequently failed to match their initial successes, whereas other directors have begun much more modestly but have made great movies late in life? The authors demonstrate that the answer lies in the directors' motivations and in the nature of their films. Conceptual directors, who use their films to express ideas or emotions, mature early; thus, such great conceptual …
From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from Godard and Truffaut to Spielberg and Eastwood
Two great movie directors were both born in 1930. One of them, Jean-Luc Godard, revolutionized filmmaking during his 30s and declined in creativity thereafter. In contrast, Clint Eastwood did not direct his first movie until he had passed the age of 40 and did not emerge as an important director until after he was 60. This dramatic difference in life cycles was not accidental, but was a characteristic example of a pattern that has been identified…
Utopias of One
Forum: The Cantos and Pedagogy The Cantos and Pedagogy
The argument of Kindellan and Kotin's essay, ‘The Cantos and Pedagogy’, is that, contrary to the prevailing critical view, The Cantos is not a pedagogical poem. More specifically, they argue that the poem rejects the idea that a methodological approach to knowledge is desirable. The Cantos is obsessed with who we are, not what we can learn. Put otherwise, the horizon of Pound's concern in The Cantos is ontological, not epistemological. Charles Al…
Response to Responses
Utopias of One
This book is a new account of utopian writing. It examines how eight writers—Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B. Du Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J. H. Prynne—construct utopias of one within and against modernity's two large-scale attempts to harmonize individual and collective interests: liberalism and communism. The book begins in the United States between the buildup to the Civil War and the e…
Poems That Kill
Poems That Kill” examines the connection between poetry and revolution in Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art” (1965) and in general. The article tracks how Baraka uses poetry to start or advance a revolution in his own life, in the lives of his contemporaries, in poetry, in our present moment, and in the future. The article also discusses poetic address (how poems address readers), sincerity, ambiguity, and hate speech
Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets
This article describes three data sets from the Shakespeare and Company Project. The data sets provide information about Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris. The first data set focuses on the members of the lending library. The second, on the books that circulated in the lending library. The third, on the events—borrows, purchases, subscriptions, renewals, deposits, reimbursements—that connected …
A Counterfactual Canon
The article analyzes the relationship between gender and taste at Shakespeare and Company. Using the *Shakespeare and Company Project* datasets, we discover that the majority of the books in the lending library were by men, and that women were almost twice as likely as men to borrow books by women. We also discover that the female authors with a high ratio of male to female readers are now canonical: Agatha Christie, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Ste…
The World of Shakespeare and Company: An Introduction
What's left to learn about Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach's bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris? This introduction addresses this question by discussing the eight articles collected in the special cluster, "The World of Shakespeare and Company," co-published by the *Journal of Cultural Analytics* and *Modernism/modernity*. All eight articles use data from the *Shakespeare and Company Project* to develop new accounts of modernism…
Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets, Version 2.0
The Shakespeare and Company Project data sets provide a detailed portrait of Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris. This article outlines the research, data curation, and development that led to a major update of the data sets. Version 2.0 refines and augments the data sets included in Version 1.2, and adds two new datasets, focused on the authors of the books that circulated in the lending library…
Art (8 works) · Literature (4 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works)