John Limon
Biographic Data
| ID | 387386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Limon |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Limon |
| SIGNATURE | LIMON J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cars and Conversion
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and “Spring in Fialta” are perfectionist love stories that feature car accidents. What is the relationship of the aesthetic bliss that replaces romantic bliss, on the one hand, to a plot that depends on random violence, on the other? This essay argues that Fitzgerald is Nabokov's precursor in reconciling the age of randomness, as noted and theorized by Victorian novelists, to mo…
The Shame of Abu Ghraib
Beautiful Failing
Making an essay from a synthesis of the career of Franz Kafka and the history of the Boston Red Sox has all the earmarks of a stunt. I cannot even pretend, in the manner of New Historicists, that there is cultural insight to be wrested from the assimilating of elite and popular culture. The history of the Red Sox that I am considering begins in 1919, when Kafka was at a stage of his career between The Trial and The Castle; but Red Sox history has…
Nectarines
Nectarines John Limon (bio) For many of the many of us who were coming into or passing through adolescence at the beginning of the sixties, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks were an initiation; Reiner’s extemporaneous interviews with “The 2000 Year Old Man” and other Brooks characters were a shibboleth of comic sensibility, when comic sensibility was most of sensibility. 1 Johnny Carson was a similar case to a lesser degree. No one doubted that Carson’s…
Seeing New Worlds
Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture. Walls reveals that the scientific texts of Thoreau s day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to the Journal the late natural history essays. Here …
Writing after War
Journal Article Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism. By John Limon. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 255 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19508758-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-508759-3.) Get access Peter C. Rollins Peter C. Rollins Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1…
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
A Cartesian plague 43 Hume and repetition 51 Kant and madness 61 Coda 69 3. Poe's methodology 70 Is science deadly dull?70 Is there a life science?82 Undying literature 96 4. Hawthorne's technology 121 The anxieties of alienation 121 The problems of preemption 135 Treachery betrayed 150 5.After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer 160 Sister Carrie, Brother Arthur 160 Polar similarity 169 The celestial spacecr…
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
Journal Article The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing. By John Limon. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiv + 216 pp. $29.95.) Get access Daniel A. Segal Daniel A. Segal Pitzer College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078156 Published: 01 June 1991
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
A Cartesian plague 43 Hume and repetition 51 Kant and madness 61 Coda 69 3. Poe's methodology 70 Is science deadly dull?70 Is there a life science?82 Undying literature 96 4. Hawthorne's technology 121 The anxieties of alienation 121 The problems of preemption 135 Treachery betrayed 150 5.After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer 160 Sister Carrie, Brother Arthur 160 Polar similarity 169 The celestial spacecr…
The Integration of Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses
The Integration of Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
Journal Article The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing. By John Limon. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiv + 216 pp. $29.95.) Get access Daniel A. Segal Daniel A. Segal Pitzer College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078156 Published: 01 June 1991
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
A Cartesian plague 43 Hume and repetition 51 Kant and madness 61 Coda 69 3. Poe's methodology 70 Is science deadly dull?70 Is there a life science?82 Undying literature 96 4. Hawthorne's technology 121 The anxieties of alienation 121 The problems of preemption 135 Treachery betrayed 150 5.After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer 160 Sister Carrie, Brother Arthur 160 Polar similarity 169 The celestial spacecr…
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
A Cartesian plague 43 Hume and repetition 51 Kant and madness 61 Coda 69 3. Poe's methodology 70 Is science deadly dull?70 Is there a life science?82 Undying literature 96 4. Hawthorne's technology 121 The anxieties of alienation 121 The problems of preemption 135 Treachery betrayed 150 5.After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer 160 Sister Carrie, Brother Arthur 160 Polar similarity 169 The celestial spacecr…
Writing after War
Journal Article Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism. By John Limon. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 255 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19508758-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-508759-3.) Get access Peter C. Rollins Peter C. Rollins Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1…
Nectarines
Nectarines John Limon (bio) For many of the many of us who were coming into or passing through adolescence at the beginning of the sixties, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks were an initiation; Reiner’s extemporaneous interviews with “The 2000 Year Old Man” and other Brooks characters were a shibboleth of comic sensibility, when comic sensibility was most of sensibility. 1 Johnny Carson was a similar case to a lesser degree. No one doubted that Carson’s…
Seeing New Worlds
Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture. Walls reveals that the scientific texts of Thoreau s day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to the Journal the late natural history essays. Here …
Beautiful Failing
Making an essay from a synthesis of the career of Franz Kafka and the history of the Boston Red Sox has all the earmarks of a stunt. I cannot even pretend, in the manner of New Historicists, that there is cultural insight to be wrested from the assimilating of elite and popular culture. The history of the Red Sox that I am considering begins in 1919, when Kafka was at a stage of his career between The Trial and The Castle; but Red Sox history has…
The Shame of Abu Ghraib
Cars and Conversion
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and “Spring in Fialta” are perfectionist love stories that feature car accidents. What is the relationship of the aesthetic bliss that replaces romantic bliss, on the one hand, to a plot that depends on random violence, on the other? This essay argues that Fitzgerald is Nabokov's precursor in reconciling the age of randomness, as noted and theorized by Victorian novelists, to mo…
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