Kathryn Hume
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Hume |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Hume |
| SIGNATURE | HUME K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Differing Shame Cultures of Tony Williams's Nutcase and Grettir's Saga
Tony Williams's Nutcase translates Grettir's Saga into a modern setting. Saga shame- and social media shame cultures differ, particularly in what gives life to life. I draw on Beowulf, Grettir's Saga , current criticisms of both, cultural theory, and other novels that build upon these earlier texts
Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt
Preliminary Interviews
You approach a hotel door. You turn off your cell phone so it will not interrupt the interview. You hear voices inside and wonder whether to knock or not. You take one last glance at your cheat sheet for this university, and rap boldly on the door at the appointed hour. Some schools talk to a candidate until the next makes his or her presence known, so don't hold back. You shake hands with two or three or five or perhaps even six people, and note…
Gerald Vizenor's Metaphysics
Gerald Vizenor's Metaphysics Kathryn Hume The Pennsylvania State University Gerald Vizenor is a challenging, important, and ambitious writer who has gained some following but deserves wider attention. He has published more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, theoretical essays on the "postindian" condition, and journalistic pieces on issues affecting Native American life, such as bingo, capital punishment, and courts deciding whether ancestral …
Speed, Rhythm, Movement
Speed, Rhythm, Movement:A Dialogue on K. Hume's Article "Narrative Speed" Jan Baetens (bio) and Kathryn Hume (bio) The following reflections on "narrative speed" are an attempt to remediate the traditional 'reply' to a scholarly article, followed by a 'reply to the reply' by the first author. Instead, the two authors of this jointly written response to the article published by Kathryn Hume in 2005 have decided from the very beginning to merge the…
Black Urban Utopia in Wideman's Later Fiction
Late Imperial Romance
Calvino's Fictions
Constructing Postmodernism
Sensuality and the Senses in Calvino's Fiction
Calvino consistently upheld the position that reason and logic should rule the emotions. He was fond of saying 'bisogna sdrammatizzare'-one must de-dramatize. His later fictions suggest calmness verging on frigidity: the invisible cities are beautiful crystals arranged in a majestic geometric pattern; the tarot cards resemble an iconic crossword puzzle; Palomar's adventures are numerically articulated to reflect three levels of classification. Ex…
The Gnostic Pynchon
War Stars
Views from Above, Views from Below
AUTITH screaming comes across the sky, Gravity's Rainbow 'kV wrenches us into the world of The Rocket. Just so, the V-2 magnetically draws the novel's characters into that same world, its fields of force generating the major actions and informing the images. Time and again, the rocket imposes its code on elements of the story: Tyrone Slothrop becomes Rocketman; marriage turns into union with a rocket; orgasm corresponds to launching; towers and c…
Pynchon's Mythography
Pynchon's Mythography
The exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in Gravity s Rainbow makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon s work and provides easier access to his Myth turns chaos into cosmos, Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon s book allows for the creation of a world humankin…
Fantasy and Mimesis
Medieval Romance and Science Fiction
"The "Laxdœla saga
The concept of the hall in Old English poetry
The range of cultural assumptions underlying Old English poetry and the sentiments and sources which inspired it, not to mention the methods of composition – oral or written – are subjects of vigorous dispute. Much that was once considered indigenous and Germanic is now being revalued in the light of Latin analogues and works accepted for a century as secular are being treated by many as Christian doctrinal discourses. Since the intellectual mili…
Beginnings and Endings in the Icelandic Family Sagas
The concept of the hall in Old English poetry
The range of cultural assumptions underlying Old English poetry and the sentiments and sources which inspired it, not to mention the methods of composition – oral or written – are subjects of vigorous dispute. Much that was once considered indigenous and Germanic is now being revalued in the light of Latin analogues and works accepted for a century as secular are being treated by many as Christian doctrinal discourses. Since the intellectual mili…
Speed, Rhythm, Movement
Speed, Rhythm, Movement:A Dialogue on K. Hume's Article "Narrative Speed" Jan Baetens (bio) and Kathryn Hume (bio) The following reflections on "narrative speed" are an attempt to remediate the traditional 'reply' to a scholarly article, followed by a 'reply to the reply' by the first author. Instead, the two authors of this jointly written response to the article published by Kathryn Hume in 2005 have decided from the very beginning to merge the…
Views from Above, Views from Below
AUTITH screaming comes across the sky, Gravity's Rainbow 'kV wrenches us into the world of The Rocket. Just so, the V-2 magnetically draws the novel's characters into that same world, its fields of force generating the major actions and informing the images. Time and again, the rocket imposes its code on elements of the story: Tyrone Slothrop becomes Rocketman; marriage turns into union with a rocket; orgasm corresponds to launching; towers and c…
Beginnings and Endings in the Icelandic Family Sagas
The concept of the hall in Old English poetry
The range of cultural assumptions underlying Old English poetry and the sentiments and sources which inspired it, not to mention the methods of composition – oral or written – are subjects of vigorous dispute. Much that was once considered indigenous and Germanic is now being revalued in the light of Latin analogues and works accepted for a century as secular are being treated by many as Christian doctrinal discourses. Since the intellectual mili…
"The "Laxdœla saga
Medieval Romance and Science Fiction
Fantasy and Mimesis
Pynchon's Mythography
Pynchon's Mythography
The exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in Gravity s Rainbow makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon s work and provides easier access to his Myth turns chaos into cosmos, Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon s book allows for the creation of a world humankin…
Views from Above, Views from Below
AUTITH screaming comes across the sky, Gravity's Rainbow 'kV wrenches us into the world of The Rocket. Just so, the V-2 magnetically draws the novel's characters into that same world, its fields of force generating the major actions and informing the images. Time and again, the rocket imposes its code on elements of the story: Tyrone Slothrop becomes Rocketman; marriage turns into union with a rocket; orgasm corresponds to launching; towers and c…
War Stars
The Gnostic Pynchon
Sensuality and the Senses in Calvino's Fiction
Calvino consistently upheld the position that reason and logic should rule the emotions. He was fond of saying 'bisogna sdrammatizzare'-one must de-dramatize. His later fictions suggest calmness verging on frigidity: the invisible cities are beautiful crystals arranged in a majestic geometric pattern; the tarot cards resemble an iconic crossword puzzle; Palomar's adventures are numerically articulated to reflect three levels of classification. Ex…
Calvino's Fictions
Constructing Postmodernism
Late Imperial Romance
Black Urban Utopia in Wideman's Later Fiction
Speed, Rhythm, Movement
Speed, Rhythm, Movement:A Dialogue on K. Hume's Article "Narrative Speed" Jan Baetens (bio) and Kathryn Hume (bio) The following reflections on "narrative speed" are an attempt to remediate the traditional 'reply' to a scholarly article, followed by a 'reply to the reply' by the first author. Instead, the two authors of this jointly written response to the article published by Kathryn Hume in 2005 have decided from the very beginning to merge the…
Gerald Vizenor's Metaphysics
Gerald Vizenor's Metaphysics Kathryn Hume The Pennsylvania State University Gerald Vizenor is a challenging, important, and ambitious writer who has gained some following but deserves wider attention. He has published more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, theoretical essays on the "postindian" condition, and journalistic pieces on issues affecting Native American life, such as bingo, capital punishment, and courts deciding whether ancestral …
Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt
Preliminary Interviews
You approach a hotel door. You turn off your cell phone so it will not interrupt the interview. You hear voices inside and wonder whether to knock or not. You take one last glance at your cheat sheet for this university, and rap boldly on the door at the appointed hour. Some schools talk to a candidate until the next makes his or her presence known, so don't hold back. You shake hands with two or three or five or perhaps even six people, and note…
The Differing Shame Cultures of Tony Williams's Nutcase and Grettir's Saga
Tony Williams's Nutcase translates Grettir's Saga into a modern setting. Saga shame- and social media shame cultures differ, particularly in what gives life to life. I draw on Beowulf, Grettir's Saga , current criticisms of both, cultural theory, and other novels that build upon these earlier texts
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