Brian Jansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Jansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Jansen |
| SIGNATURE | JANSEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humanities and Social Sciences, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1269-2054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Local to where, across the river?”
This article considers American crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s Killshot (1989) as an “urban western” on the Windsor/Detroit international border. Drawing on Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s work on the borderlands, Greg Grandin’s work on frontiers in the US imagination, and Holly Karibo’s research on illicit exchange at the US/Canada borderline, the author theorizes Leonard’s Detroit—once capital of the Michigan Territory, home to the Anishinaabe, settled v…
It’s Still Real to Me”
Beginning from the premise (vis-à-vis wrestler-turned-scholar Laurence de Garis) that professional wrestling scholarship has historically overlooked the embodied, physical dimension of the form in favour of its drama, and reflecting on a series of professional wrestling story-lines that have blurred the lines between staged performance (“kayfabe”) and reality, this article suggests that the business of professional wrestling offers a vivid case s…
Oddly Shaped Emptinesses
Drawing on critic Mark Fisher’s typology of the weird and the eerie (particularly his focus on the eerie as the sensation of nothing where there should be something), as well as Nancy Fraser and Rahael Jaeggi’s critiques of capitalism as an institutionalised social order, this paper uses Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 novel The Virgin Suicide to take up the significance of place and placelessness in contemporary American culture and literature. Set in …
“Yes! No! … Maybe?”
Good Work and Good Works
Drawing on what American short story writer and novelist George Saunders has described as the urge toward kindness in his work, as well as its myriad allusions to Christian symbology and religiosity, this paper explores the intersection of languages of labour or “work” and religious tensions in Saunders’ oeuvre. Reading the stories of Saunders’s first collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, through the lens of postsecular literary theory and Sau…
It’s Still Real to Me”
Beginning from the premise (vis-à-vis wrestler-turned-scholar Laurence de Garis) that professional wrestling scholarship has historically overlooked the embodied, physical dimension of the form in favour of its drama, and reflecting on a series of professional wrestling story-lines that have blurred the lines between staged performance (“kayfabe”) and reality, this article suggests that the business of professional wrestling offers a vivid case s…
Oddly Shaped Emptinesses
Drawing on critic Mark Fisher’s typology of the weird and the eerie (particularly his focus on the eerie as the sensation of nothing where there should be something), as well as Nancy Fraser and Rahael Jaeggi’s critiques of capitalism as an institutionalised social order, this paper uses Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 novel The Virgin Suicide to take up the significance of place and placelessness in contemporary American culture and literature. Set in …
“Yes! No! … Maybe?”
Good Work and Good Works
Drawing on what American short story writer and novelist George Saunders has described as the urge toward kindness in his work, as well as its myriad allusions to Christian symbology and religiosity, this paper explores the intersection of languages of labour or “work” and religious tensions in Saunders’ oeuvre. Reading the stories of Saunders’s first collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, through the lens of postsecular literary theory and Sau…
It’s Still Real to Me”
Beginning from the premise (vis-à-vis wrestler-turned-scholar Laurence de Garis) that professional wrestling scholarship has historically overlooked the embodied, physical dimension of the form in favour of its drama, and reflecting on a series of professional wrestling story-lines that have blurred the lines between staged performance (“kayfabe”) and reality, this article suggests that the business of professional wrestling offers a vivid case s…
Oddly Shaped Emptinesses
Drawing on critic Mark Fisher’s typology of the weird and the eerie (particularly his focus on the eerie as the sensation of nothing where there should be something), as well as Nancy Fraser and Rahael Jaeggi’s critiques of capitalism as an institutionalised social order, this paper uses Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 novel The Virgin Suicide to take up the significance of place and placelessness in contemporary American culture and literature. Set in …
Local to where, across the river?”
This article considers American crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s Killshot (1989) as an “urban western” on the Windsor/Detroit international border. Drawing on Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s work on the borderlands, Greg Grandin’s work on frontiers in the US imagination, and Holly Karibo’s research on illicit exchange at the US/Canada borderline, the author theorizes Leonard’s Detroit—once capital of the Michigan Territory, home to the Anishinaabe, settled v…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American Sports and Literature (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)