Caren Irr
Biographic Data
| ID | 480301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caren Irr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caren |
| FAMILY NAME | Irr |
| SIGNATURE | IRR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6832-3469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Problem of Cultural Anxiety
Apocalypse can be understood as a social process masquerading as an event. The process in question for many contemporary narratives, according to Brent Ryan Bellamy's engaging new study, is the decline of US power on the global stage. Indicated by a turn away from the industrial economy that drove mid-twentieth-century prosperity and a consequent rise in militarization, US decline, as Bellamy understands it, triggers widespread cultural anxiety t…
Phronesis
This essay examines the concept of the political as it is invoked in the environmental humanities. The critical project of the field involves overcoming the sensory and perceptive limits of enclosure within the realm of the merely human. By theorising new relations to the environment, environmental humanists seek forms of political action that allow humans to inhabit the planet more sustainably. This focus on theoretical wisdom – or sophia – has …
When the Migrant’s Perspective Takes Center Stage
Even as border crises have intensified and travel bans have proliferated around the world during the early 2020s, impressive new scholarship on the literature of migration has been opening prospects for new cosmopolitanisms. Recent essays by Nasia Anam, Marissia Fragkou, and Dominic Thomas all stress the importance of telling migration stories from the perspective of the migrants themselves. They each trace the path of a different diaspora (Musli…
Ideology Critique 2.0
This essay differentiates the project of ideology critique proper from its less ambitious relative, propaganda labeling. It then proceeds to identify four tasks whose undertaking is necessary in order to update and refresh the project of ideology critique. These four tasks include: 1) distinguishing between ideology and propaganda; 2) understanding ideology in relation to current conditions-especially the abundance and novelty of affect, the shri…
Where in the World Is US Literature?
Where is US literature relative to “the world”? How do Americanists understand “the world”? How does shifting our understanding of “the world” transform the study of US literary history? Or, does simply posing the question of US literature and the world imply a dissolution of the field? Are operative concepts of the “Americanness” of American literature rendered obsolete once the question of “the world” is posed? There was a time when such questi…
Orgies of Feeling
How does neoliberalism feel? This question motivates these two strong studies of contemporary US political discourse and fiction. Both Anker and Smith answer it with an associative or descriptive mapping that they prefer to the apparently dated project of ideology critique. “My generation of political theorists,” Anker writes in her final chapter, refuses “to grant moral purity to cherished canonical texts, key modes of critique, and firm politic…
Rethinking the Frankfurt School
Toward the World Novel
Presents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international--especially expatriate--fiction in 21st-century US letters.
Shades of the Planet
Book Review| January 01 2008 Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World LiteratureDimock, Wai Chee; Buell, Lawrence Caren Irr Caren Irr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (4): 519–521. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659688 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Caren Irr; Shades of the…
A Gendered Collision
Book Review| December 01 2001 A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction By Rhonda S. Pettit. Cranbury, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2000. 248 pp. $39.50. Caren Irr Caren Irr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 880–881. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-880 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementa…
Literature As Proleptic Globalization, or a Prehistory of the New Intellectual Property
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
The Suburb of Dissent
The New Red Negro
Book Review| September 01 2000 The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry,1930-1946 By James Edward Smethurst. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 288 pp.$45.00. Caren Irr Caren Irr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 645–646. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-645 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation…
Partisans and Poets
Introduction Partisan poetics, circa 1914 1. I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier: The Woman's Peace Party and the Pacifist Majority 2. The new society within the shell of the old: Wobbly Parody Poetical and Political 3. The barbarians at the gate: The Soldier-Poet and the Great War in Black and White 4. Marketing patriotism: The Frugal Housewife and the Consumption of Poetry 5. Beating the competition: The Woman's Peace Party and the Industrial…
Queer Borders
Queer Borders: Figures from the 1930s for U.S.-Canadian Relations Caren Irr (bio) “Canada as a separate but dominated country,” wrote Margaret Atwood during the free trade debates of the late 1980s, “has done about as well under the United States as women worldwide have done under men. About the only position they have ever adopted toward us, country to country, has been the missionary position, and we were not on top. I guess that is why the nat…
From Nation to Generation
Canada at present was called a nation only because a few laws had beenpassed and a railway line sent from one coast to the other. In returninghome [Neil Macrae, the heroj knew that he was doing more than comingback to familiar surroundings. For better or worse he was entering thefuture, he was identifying himself with the still-hidden forces which weredoomed to shape humanity as certainly as the tiny states of Europe hadshaped the past. Canada wa…
From Nation to Generation
Daughters of the Great Depression
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Shades of the Planet
Book Review| January 01 2008 Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World LiteratureDimock, Wai Chee; Buell, Lawrence Caren Irr Caren Irr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (4): 519–521. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659688 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Caren Irr; Shades of the…
Ideology Critique 2.0
This essay differentiates the project of ideology critique proper from its less ambitious relative, propaganda labeling. It then proceeds to identify four tasks whose undertaking is necessary in order to update and refresh the project of ideology critique. These four tasks include: 1) distinguishing between ideology and propaganda; 2) understanding ideology in relation to current conditions-especially the abundance and novelty of affect, the shri…
Queer Borders
Queer Borders: Figures from the 1930s for U.S.-Canadian Relations Caren Irr (bio) “Canada as a separate but dominated country,” wrote Margaret Atwood during the free trade debates of the late 1980s, “has done about as well under the United States as women worldwide have done under men. About the only position they have ever adopted toward us, country to country, has been the missionary position, and we were not on top. I guess that is why the nat…
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Daughters of the Great Depression
Queer Borders
Queer Borders: Figures from the 1930s for U.S.-Canadian Relations Caren Irr (bio) “Canada as a separate but dominated country,” wrote Margaret Atwood during the free trade debates of the late 1980s, “has done about as well under the United States as women worldwide have done under men. About the only position they have ever adopted toward us, country to country, has been the missionary position, and we were not on top. I guess that is why the nat…
From Nation to Generation
Canada at present was called a nation only because a few laws had beenpassed and a railway line sent from one coast to the other. In returninghome [Neil Macrae, the heroj knew that he was doing more than comingback to familiar surroundings. For better or worse he was entering thefuture, he was identifying himself with the still-hidden forces which weredoomed to shape humanity as certainly as the tiny states of Europe hadshaped the past. Canada wa…
From Nation to Generation
Partisans and Poets
Introduction Partisan poetics, circa 1914 1. I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier: The Woman's Peace Party and the Pacifist Majority 2. The new society within the shell of the old: Wobbly Parody Poetical and Political 3. The barbarians at the gate: The Soldier-Poet and the Great War in Black and White 4. Marketing patriotism: The Frugal Housewife and the Consumption of Poetry 5. Beating the competition: The Woman's Peace Party and the Industrial…
The Suburb of Dissent
The New Red Negro
Book Review| September 01 2000 The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry,1930-1946 By James Edward Smethurst. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 288 pp.$45.00. Caren Irr Caren Irr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 645–646. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-645 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation…
A Gendered Collision
Book Review| December 01 2001 A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction By Rhonda S. Pettit. Cranbury, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2000. 248 pp. $39.50. Caren Irr Caren Irr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 880–881. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-880 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementa…
Literature As Proleptic Globalization, or a Prehistory of the New Intellectual Property
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
Shades of the Planet
Book Review| January 01 2008 Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World LiteratureDimock, Wai Chee; Buell, Lawrence Caren Irr Caren Irr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (4): 519–521. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659688 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Caren Irr; Shades of the…
Toward the World Novel
Presents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international--especially expatriate--fiction in 21st-century US letters.
Rethinking the Frankfurt School
Orgies of Feeling
How does neoliberalism feel? This question motivates these two strong studies of contemporary US political discourse and fiction. Both Anker and Smith answer it with an associative or descriptive mapping that they prefer to the apparently dated project of ideology critique. “My generation of political theorists,” Anker writes in her final chapter, refuses “to grant moral purity to cherished canonical texts, key modes of critique, and firm politic…
Where in the World Is US Literature?
Where is US literature relative to “the world”? How do Americanists understand “the world”? How does shifting our understanding of “the world” transform the study of US literary history? Or, does simply posing the question of US literature and the world imply a dissolution of the field? Are operative concepts of the “Americanness” of American literature rendered obsolete once the question of “the world” is posed? There was a time when such questi…
When the Migrant’s Perspective Takes Center Stage
Even as border crises have intensified and travel bans have proliferated around the world during the early 2020s, impressive new scholarship on the literature of migration has been opening prospects for new cosmopolitanisms. Recent essays by Nasia Anam, Marissia Fragkou, and Dominic Thomas all stress the importance of telling migration stories from the perspective of the migrants themselves. They each trace the path of a different diaspora (Musli…
Ideology Critique 2.0
This essay differentiates the project of ideology critique proper from its less ambitious relative, propaganda labeling. It then proceeds to identify four tasks whose undertaking is necessary in order to update and refresh the project of ideology critique. These four tasks include: 1) distinguishing between ideology and propaganda; 2) understanding ideology in relation to current conditions-especially the abundance and novelty of affect, the shri…
Phronesis
This essay examines the concept of the political as it is invoked in the environmental humanities. The critical project of the field involves overcoming the sensory and perceptive limits of enclosure within the realm of the merely human. By theorising new relations to the environment, environmental humanists seek forms of political action that allow humans to inhabit the planet more sustainably. This focus on theoretical wisdom – or sophia – has …
Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Problem of Cultural Anxiety
Apocalypse can be understood as a social process masquerading as an event. The process in question for many contemporary narratives, according to Brent Ryan Bellamy's engaging new study, is the decline of US power on the global stage. Indicated by a turn away from the industrial economy that drove mid-twentieth-century prosperity and a consequent rise in militarization, US decline, as Bellamy understands it, triggers widespread cultural anxiety t…
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