Kasia Boddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kasia Boddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kasia |
| FAMILY NAME | Boddy |
| SIGNATURE | BODDY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0821-5826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sondheim and Weidman’s unintended trilogy
In November 2023, Pacific Overtures opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory, a ‘comparatively pocket-sized’ South London theatre famous for producing musicals.1 While serving as a tribute to Stephen Sondheim who had died three months earlier, the revival of his 1976 play had been planned for a long time: the intention – as the theatre announced – was to complete ‘the Menier’s trilogy’ of Sondheim’s collaborations with John Weidman. Their three pla…
‘It might as well be Stephen’ essays in appreciation of Sondheim
In 1994, New York magazine asked whether Stephen Sondheim was God. The question, as Sondheim later pointed out, was not simply ‘unanswerable’ but ‘camp’.1 He didn’t elaborate, but anyone who knew Susan Sontag’s famous 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’ would have understood. Indeed, for Sontag, one of camp’s defining qualities is not just ‘a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation’, but a knowingness or cliquishness about that appreciation. Taking delight in …
A conversation with Robert Glück
I spoke to Robert Gluck at his home in San Francisco in August 1996, but have not published the interview until now. We mainly discussed his 1994 novel, Margery Kemp, a work that declares his sense
New Narrative now
As much as New Narrative famously retools the autobiographical ‘I’, as the essays in this special issue show, the chorus and the crowd are also always in play. With this in mind, we asked a range o
New Narrative now
This special issue of Textual Practice marks the 25th anniversary of the publication in these pages of Gregory Bredbeck’s ground-breaking article on what was then the emergent movement of New Narra
Making it long
In 2010, following the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s fourth novel, Freedom, a furore briefly emerged in the literary media about whether the Great American Novel, so-called since 1868, is ‘coded male’. This essay briefly explores the history of novelistic claims to national spokesmanship, and, latterly, spokeswomanship. It considers the influence on Don DeLillo on contemporary fiction, and particularly, his importance for women writers such a…
Puritans, new and old
‘So, what difference does it make?’ A collective interview
Making history
Under Queensberry Rules, So to Speak’
This essay considers the development of the Queensberry Rules in the 1860s and their subsequent history as a metaphor for regulation. Unlike other codes introduced in the period, the Queensberry Rules did not simply regularize existing practices; they suggested that an activity that the law refused to accept was a sport (prizefighting) could be refashioned to make it closely resemble an activity (sparring) whose sporting credentials were clear. S…
A Straight Left against a Slogging Ruffian
The complicated shifts in power and status that took place between Britain, France and the United States in the years immediately preceding the First World War resulted in anxious self-examination and a series of identity crises whose social, cultural and political ramifications would be felt for decades to come. This was also a boom time for boxing, and one that was distinguished by a lively debate about the pros and cons of the "English" and "A…
Edward J. O'Brien's Prize Stories of the ‘National Soul’
Some Competing Analogies for Sport
Research Article| April 01 2010 Some Competing Analogies for Sport Kasia Boddy Kasia Boddy Department of English, University College, London Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (1): 55–70. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.1.55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kasia Boddy; Some Comp…
The modern beach
Cultivating Peripheral Vision
In 1971 Ralph Ellison reminded writers to ‘keep a sharp eye’ on what was going on in the ‘unintellectualized areas of our experience’. Since then cultural studies has developed ‘peripheral vision’ to some extent, but it continues to neglect sport. This article makes the case for paying proper attention to sport, and in particular, the career of Jack Johnson by discussing the significance of his 1910 fight against Jim Jeffries for Ellison's Invisi…
An Interview with Grace Paley, 26 October 2001
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Edwin Morgan's Adventures in Calamerica
Scottish poetry is traditionally proud of its internationalist outlook: of seeing itself in relation to world, rather than English, literature. This tendency is epitomized in the poetry of Edwin Morgan--Scotland's major living poet, but one whose writing is still not only underestimated but also under-examined. 1 Morgan is also renowned as a translator--from Russian, Hungarian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Old English--and all these lite…
Conversation with Dennis Cooper 27 September 1994, London
A Straight Left against a Slogging Ruffian
The complicated shifts in power and status that took place between Britain, France and the United States in the years immediately preceding the First World War resulted in anxious self-examination and a series of identity crises whose social, cultural and political ramifications would be felt for decades to come. This was also a boom time for boxing, and one that was distinguished by a lively debate about the pros and cons of the "English" and "A…
Some Competing Analogies for Sport
Research Article| April 01 2010 Some Competing Analogies for Sport Kasia Boddy Kasia Boddy Department of English, University College, London Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (1): 55–70. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.1.55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kasia Boddy; Some Comp…
Conversation with Dennis Cooper 27 September 1994, London
Edwin Morgan's Adventures in Calamerica
Scottish poetry is traditionally proud of its internationalist outlook: of seeing itself in relation to world, rather than English, literature. This tendency is epitomized in the poetry of Edwin Morgan--Scotland's major living poet, but one whose writing is still not only underestimated but also under-examined. 1 Morgan is also renowned as a translator--from Russian, Hungarian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Old English--and all these lite…
An Interview with Grace Paley, 26 October 2001
Preview this article: An Interview with Grace Paley, 26 October 2001, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ejac/21/1/s3-1.gif
Cultivating Peripheral Vision
In 1971 Ralph Ellison reminded writers to ‘keep a sharp eye’ on what was going on in the ‘unintellectualized areas of our experience’. Since then cultural studies has developed ‘peripheral vision’ to some extent, but it continues to neglect sport. This article makes the case for paying proper attention to sport, and in particular, the career of Jack Johnson by discussing the significance of his 1910 fight against Jim Jeffries for Ellison's Invisi…
The modern beach
Edward J. O'Brien's Prize Stories of the ‘National Soul’
Some Competing Analogies for Sport
Research Article| April 01 2010 Some Competing Analogies for Sport Kasia Boddy Kasia Boddy Department of English, University College, London Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (1): 55–70. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.1.55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kasia Boddy; Some Comp…
Under Queensberry Rules, So to Speak’
This essay considers the development of the Queensberry Rules in the 1860s and their subsequent history as a metaphor for regulation. Unlike other codes introduced in the period, the Queensberry Rules did not simply regularize existing practices; they suggested that an activity that the law refused to accept was a sport (prizefighting) could be refashioned to make it closely resemble an activity (sparring) whose sporting credentials were clear. S…
A Straight Left against a Slogging Ruffian
The complicated shifts in power and status that took place between Britain, France and the United States in the years immediately preceding the First World War resulted in anxious self-examination and a series of identity crises whose social, cultural and political ramifications would be felt for decades to come. This was also a boom time for boxing, and one that was distinguished by a lively debate about the pros and cons of the "English" and "A…
Making history
‘So, what difference does it make?’ A collective interview
Puritans, new and old
Making it long
In 2010, following the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s fourth novel, Freedom, a furore briefly emerged in the literary media about whether the Great American Novel, so-called since 1868, is ‘coded male’. This essay briefly explores the history of novelistic claims to national spokesmanship, and, latterly, spokeswomanship. It considers the influence on Don DeLillo on contemporary fiction, and particularly, his importance for women writers such a…
A conversation with Robert Glück
I spoke to Robert Gluck at his home in San Francisco in August 1996, but have not published the interview until now. We mainly discussed his 1994 novel, Margery Kemp, a work that declares his sense
New Narrative now
As much as New Narrative famously retools the autobiographical ‘I’, as the essays in this special issue show, the chorus and the crowd are also always in play. With this in mind, we asked a range o
New Narrative now
This special issue of Textual Practice marks the 25th anniversary of the publication in these pages of Gregory Bredbeck’s ground-breaking article on what was then the emergent movement of New Narra
Sondheim and Weidman’s unintended trilogy
In November 2023, Pacific Overtures opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory, a ‘comparatively pocket-sized’ South London theatre famous for producing musicals.1 While serving as a tribute to Stephen Sondheim who had died three months earlier, the revival of his 1976 play had been planned for a long time: the intention – as the theatre announced – was to complete ‘the Menier’s trilogy’ of Sondheim’s collaborations with John Weidman. Their three pla…
‘It might as well be Stephen’ essays in appreciation of Sondheim
In 1994, New York magazine asked whether Stephen Sondheim was God. The question, as Sondheim later pointed out, was not simply ‘unanswerable’ but ‘camp’.1 He didn’t elaborate, but anyone who knew Susan Sontag’s famous 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’ would have understood. Indeed, for Sontag, one of camp’s defining qualities is not just ‘a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation’, but a knowingness or cliquishness about that appreciation. Taking delight in …
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