Kolb Kolb
Biographic Data
| ID | 6011324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kolb Kolb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kolb |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolb |
| SIGNATURE | KOLB K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paravictorianism
This article revisits the 2006 diplomatic standoff between Indonesia and the World Health Organization over wild-type (or naturally occurring) viral flu samples in the context of the ongoing War on Terror, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Romance whose imagination seems to have predicted, improbably, the conceptual conjoining of the two: Mary Shelley's late, reviled apocalypse fantasy, The Last Man (1826). Raza Kolb explores the political and concept…
Plot Circles
Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels move in circles: characters retrace their steps, and history repeats itself. The limited geography registers and reflects both movements. At the same time, the novels repeatedly figure choice as binary—limited to two seemingly equivalent alternatives. This essay argues that these apparently disparate features of Hardy’s plots are, in fact, structurally linked. Circular movement and binary choice echo through contempor…
Plot Circles
Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels move in circles: characters retrace their steps, and history repeats itself. The limited geography registers and reflects both movements. At the same time, the novels repeatedly figure choice as binary—limited to two seemingly equivalent alternatives. This essay argues that these apparently disparate features of Hardy’s plots are, in fact, structurally linked. Circular movement and binary choice echo through contempor…
Plot Circles
Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels move in circles: characters retrace their steps, and history repeats itself. The limited geography registers and reflects both movements. At the same time, the novels repeatedly figure choice as binary—limited to two seemingly equivalent alternatives. This essay argues that these apparently disparate features of Hardy’s plots are, in fact, structurally linked. Circular movement and binary choice echo through contempor…
Paravictorianism
This article revisits the 2006 diplomatic standoff between Indonesia and the World Health Organization over wild-type (or naturally occurring) viral flu samples in the context of the ongoing War on Terror, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Romance whose imagination seems to have predicted, improbably, the conceptual conjoining of the two: Mary Shelley's late, reviled apocalypse fantasy, The Last Man (1826). Raza Kolb explores the political and concept…
Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 work) · Decadence, Literature, and Society (1 work) · Fantasy (1 work) · French Literature and Poetry (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work)