Eve C Sorum
Biographic Data
| ID | 9245779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eve C Sorum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eve C |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorum |
| SIGNATURE | SORUM E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Orientations
In this chapter, Eve Sorum asks what happens when a reader or writer tries to orient herself toward an othered body or distant place in a text, only to have the object of that gaze turn and look back. What can disorienting literary moves – changes to both poetic and narrative form and perspective – reveal about how space determines who can speak and how one can speak in a text? This chapter explores the disorientation and subsequent transformatio…
Humility and Perspective-Taking
In an essay written sometime in 1917 or 1918, unpublished during his lifetime and only discovered in 1980, Ford Madox Ford reflects on what his war experience in France taught him: “above all things—humility”. This article argues that Ford’s writing about humility and perspective-taking in his wartime essays, which he connects to unstinting attentiveness to the particularities of place and people, can be read through an ecocritical lens that sees…
Unmastery
In this article, Eve Sorum argues that Woolf’s use of pauses illustrates a feminist pedagogy of unmastery, providing readers and teachers with an alternative approach to reading that counteracts what Woolf saw as patriarchal modes of experiencing language and defining knowledge. Through an examination of essays including “On Not Knowing Greek,” “Why?,” “Craftsmanship,” and “The Reader,” Sorum posits that unmastery involves rethinking a one-way re…
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Unmastery
In this article, Eve Sorum argues that Woolf’s use of pauses illustrates a feminist pedagogy of unmastery, providing readers and teachers with an alternative approach to reading that counteracts what Woolf saw as patriarchal modes of experiencing language and defining knowledge. Through an examination of essays including “On Not Knowing Greek,” “Why?,” “Craftsmanship,” and “The Reader,” Sorum posits that unmastery involves rethinking a one-way re…
Humility and Perspective-Taking
In an essay written sometime in 1917 or 1918, unpublished during his lifetime and only discovered in 1980, Ford Madox Ford reflects on what his war experience in France taught him: “above all things—humility”. This article argues that Ford’s writing about humility and perspective-taking in his wartime essays, which he connects to unstinting attentiveness to the particularities of place and people, can be read through an ecocritical lens that sees…
Orientations
In this chapter, Eve Sorum asks what happens when a reader or writer tries to orient herself toward an othered body or distant place in a text, only to have the object of that gaze turn and look back. What can disorienting literary moves – changes to both poetic and narrative form and perspective – reveal about how space determines who can speak and how one can speak in a text? This chapter explores the disorientation and subsequent transformatio…
Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (1 work) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (1 work) · Humility (1 work) · Law (1 work)