John K Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 999029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John K Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | John K |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Dakota State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Orgy by Gábor Zoltán (review)
Reviewed by: Orgy by Gábor Zoltán John K. Cox GÁBOR ZOLTÁN Orgy Trans. Thomas Sneddon. Frankfurt am Main. CEEOLPress. 2022. 400 pages. THIS NOVEL IS TERRIFYING. Hungarian writer Gábor Zoltán, after a great deal of archival research, has created a nightmarish recounting of events from the final phase of the Holocaust in Hungary. In late 1944 and early 1945, after Budapest was consigned to the rule of the fascist organization known as the Arrow Cro…
Jurij KochGruben-Rand-Notizen
better to read one’s models or masters well than disguising who they are. For the canonical critic Ignacio Echevarr ía, Poeta chileno is not a novelistic epigone but primarily a charming, very rare, and disconcerting tribute to the poet’s vocation; a poignant settling of scores (in the third part Pato says, “He wasn’t a great poet, Bolaño”). The reception is equally enthusiastic in Spanish-language publications that are decisive in evaluating cur…
Weltschmerz in the Banat
The 1921 novel Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću (The Carnojevic Diaries), which launched the career of the Serbian intellectual Miloš Crnjanski, was a bold attempt to come to terms with the effects of World War I in the ethnically mixed region of the Banat in southern Hungary. The novel portrays savage fighting on the Eastern front, long recuperation times for its protagonist in hospitals, and unsettling homecomings, and in these ways it exhibits similariti…
Zwischenspiel by Monika Maron
104 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews he claims that “honest conversation ” with Karim is now impossible because of “the Niagara of suspicion and prejudice and brashness cascading around us.” It might be pointed out that suspicion and the rest are not unnatural in the documented circumstances of relations between Muslim immigrants and the locals in present-day Denmark and elsewhere in Europe. M. D. Allen University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley Pierre L…
[T]he Ghost of Myself
Joanne Harris’s Sleep, Pale Sister (1994) is one of a growing number of neo-Victorian texts to foreground a concern with the female body and the male artist. Such tropes are reminiscent of the Victorian sensation novel, and indeed Harris’s text draws heavily on the plot of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860). Through an exploration of Harris’s novel, this article considers the role of the female body as objet d’art in neo-sensation fiction…
SÃ1⁄4hne
reviews resulted in massive evacuations and downright starvation. He and Berlin do not lack for history, and as far as the city is concerned, even with all that’s been destroyed or forgotten, he is right that, if anything, an excess of history remains today. Ulf Zimmermann Kennesaw State University Araceli Tinajero. Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón. Madrid. Editorial Verbum. 2012. isbn 9788479627119 Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón is a memoir that rel…
Das Feuer im Spiegel
76 World Literature Today reviews have become devoted followers of his writing, The Secret of Evil constitutes an essential piece in Roberto Bolaño’s magnificent oeuvre. Andrew Martino Southern New Hampshire University Jurij Koch. Das Feuer im Spiegel. Bautzen, Germany. Domowina. 2012. isbn 9783742022370 One of the most interesting hidden chapters of modern German history remains the story of the Sorbian communities of Upper and Lower Lusatia (Ob…
Pannonia Imperilled
This essay explores the significance of the works of the Serbian–Jewish–Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš (1935–89) more than twenty years after his untimely passing. To understand Kiš's place in Serbian culture today, it is necessary to revisit the controversies that bedevilled his public reception in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s; to understand Kiš's place in Central European history today, though, it is necessary to broaden our familiarity with h…
Tales of Happiness and Misery
Q&A:WLT INTERVIEWS ^I^4iy¿jj4l¡^g^^ ^h X u O *: z oc O >i oc ^ O u O O x Koch,theauthor ofsevenbooks,is a Swissjournalist. He is thetwotime recipient oftheEgonErwin KischPrizefor German-language journalism (1988and 1996);hiscarefully constructed, dystopian first novel,Sara tanzt (Saradances)was awardedtheMaraCassensPrizefor thebestfirst novelof 2003.Notableamonghisworksaretheriveting novelDerFlambeur (Theflimflam flambeur), basedonthedifficult li…
Pojdimo vezat kosti by Cvetka Lipuš
Yet amidthefragments and ruins ofwarfare, Henson'sdynamic word visions makeus moreawareofthe astonishing beautythatremains in ourworld. NormaC. Wilson University ofSouthDakota Cvetka Lipus. Pojdimo vezat kosti. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Mladinska. 2010. 109 pages. €19.95. isbn978-961-011068 -2 In hersixth andmostrecent collection ofpoems, Cvetka Lipusdelivers a rich,denseset of highlyevocativetexts , demonstrating thatshe has takenherpoetryto new leve…
The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi, Robert Elsie, Janice Mathie-Heck
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW ^ l I oddly vibrant Toronto with distinct ly noir elements. Justin, the central consciousness and semi-anti-hero, might be Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim Dixon reincarnated in an even worse job as an adjunct teaching business writing at a community college, living in a shoddy apart ment, chronically short of money, with a moderate but persistent lin gerie fetish. He has become increas ingly detached from his university frien…
Writing in the Dark
3 I1 Even Gioia's insistence that i cool, without themodern term, is [ a very recent concept can be ques i tioned. He mentions Castiglione's [ The Courtier as perhaps a singular 1 anticipation of the cool, ignoring , or ignorant of Restoration Comedy 1 heroes of Etherege and Congreve or i Algernon Moncrieff or any number ' of characters, real and fictional, who i form thedandy tradition, which the [ reallyhip continued inodd ways. Ted Gioia maint…
The Bars of Atlantis
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW Then, however, the speaker turns on himself: "What ifall thispassion is out of proportion to its subject? ... / thatshe should infect your day to the very marrow, / to hate the common lightand its simple joys / .. .old man in the dimming world." Derek Walcott's carefully nuanced, balanced, and multifaceted under standing of theworld gives these poems their maturity of vision; it's his supreme craft that gives them their…
Bitterfelder Bogen
m 1-4 > Z I?< w p H < m H NN Q O hood, my friends,my everything?" Her passport confiscated, she cannot leave Britain until she receives offi cial "refugee" status four years later. Once her sister returns to Croatia to study, Marie must relocate repeat edly. Initially rejecting the new places, where she is always "once again a foreigner," the resilient teen builds a life and finds beauty in each. When her mother comes to England, Vesna, immersed …
Remembering the Balkans
Cioran, adding that, to some, a definition coming from him would certainly be considered dubi ous, since Cioran himself came from the Balkans; I am repeating my main point here, because it impresses me as a fitting overture for (yet another) reflection on the Balkans: problem with the Balkans, its fateful curse, is often precisely the way it fits into outsiders' definitions, its susceptibility to what a poet described thus: somebody from out side…
Obleganje SreÄe by Cvetka Lipuš
departure: / flowerpower vinyls strewn and sleeveless." And therein isperhaps theoverarching meaning of Perplexed Skin: a modern genera tion lives in search ofmeaning and, though comfortable, remains psychi cally unfulfilled. The social debris of our forebears remains, but as a hin drance, outmoded and meaningless. And in poetry, inwhich every word ispotentially sacred and must be used deliberately, as itmust be read, the reader is left,as the ti…
A Balkan Trilogy
The History of Serbia
Yugoslavia and Its Historians
Slovenia
A clear and concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia. It examines the country's rapid transition from a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within Yugoslavia, to an independent state and analyzes the major political and economic developments since 1991. The perfect introduction to one of Europe's most fascinating nations
In the Wake of the Balkan Myth
The Great War, 1914-18
Peasants and Communists
Independent Slovenia
Introduction - Slovene Nationalism - The Slovene Economy Evan Kraft & Milan Vodopivec - Slovene Social Movements and the Creation of Civil Society - Cultural Clashes - The Political Realignment - The Struggle for Recognition and Foreign Policy
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Independent Slovenia
Introduction - Slovene Nationalism - The Slovene Economy Evan Kraft & Milan Vodopivec - Slovene Social Movements and the Creation of Civil Society - Cultural Clashes - The Political Realignment - The Struggle for Recognition and Foreign Policy
Historical Dictionary of Slovenia
A valuable reference work for students, scholars, researchers, and those interested in the economy, politics, and culture of Slovenia
Peasants and Communists
The Great War, 1914-18
In the Wake of the Balkan Myth
Slovenia
A clear and concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia. It examines the country's rapid transition from a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within Yugoslavia, to an independent state and analyzes the major political and economic developments since 1991. The perfect introduction to one of Europe's most fascinating nations
The History of Serbia
Yugoslavia and Its Historians
A Balkan Trilogy
Remembering the Balkans
Cioran, adding that, to some, a definition coming from him would certainly be considered dubi ous, since Cioran himself came from the Balkans; I am repeating my main point here, because it impresses me as a fitting overture for (yet another) reflection on the Balkans: problem with the Balkans, its fateful curse, is often precisely the way it fits into outsiders' definitions, its susceptibility to what a poet described thus: somebody from out side…
Obleganje SreÄe by Cvetka Lipuš
departure: / flowerpower vinyls strewn and sleeveless." And therein isperhaps theoverarching meaning of Perplexed Skin: a modern genera tion lives in search ofmeaning and, though comfortable, remains psychi cally unfulfilled. The social debris of our forebears remains, but as a hin drance, outmoded and meaningless. And in poetry, inwhich every word ispotentially sacred and must be used deliberately, as itmust be read, the reader is left,as the ti…
Pojdimo vezat kosti by Cvetka Lipuš
Yet amidthefragments and ruins ofwarfare, Henson'sdynamic word visions makeus moreawareofthe astonishing beautythatremains in ourworld. NormaC. Wilson University ofSouthDakota Cvetka Lipus. Pojdimo vezat kosti. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Mladinska. 2010. 109 pages. €19.95. isbn978-961-011068 -2 In hersixth andmostrecent collection ofpoems, Cvetka Lipusdelivers a rich,denseset of highlyevocativetexts , demonstrating thatshe has takenherpoetryto new leve…
The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi, Robert Elsie, Janice Mathie-Heck
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW ^ l I oddly vibrant Toronto with distinct ly noir elements. Justin, the central consciousness and semi-anti-hero, might be Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim Dixon reincarnated in an even worse job as an adjunct teaching business writing at a community college, living in a shoddy apart ment, chronically short of money, with a moderate but persistent lin gerie fetish. He has become increas ingly detached from his university frien…
Writing in the Dark
3 I1 Even Gioia's insistence that i cool, without themodern term, is [ a very recent concept can be ques i tioned. He mentions Castiglione's [ The Courtier as perhaps a singular 1 anticipation of the cool, ignoring , or ignorant of Restoration Comedy 1 heroes of Etherege and Congreve or i Algernon Moncrieff or any number ' of characters, real and fictional, who i form thedandy tradition, which the [ reallyhip continued inodd ways. Ted Gioia maint…
The Bars of Atlantis
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW Then, however, the speaker turns on himself: "What ifall thispassion is out of proportion to its subject? ... / thatshe should infect your day to the very marrow, / to hate the common lightand its simple joys / .. .old man in the dimming world." Derek Walcott's carefully nuanced, balanced, and multifaceted under standing of theworld gives these poems their maturity of vision; it's his supreme craft that gives them their…
Bitterfelder Bogen
m 1-4 > Z I?< w p H < m H NN Q O hood, my friends,my everything?" Her passport confiscated, she cannot leave Britain until she receives offi cial "refugee" status four years later. Once her sister returns to Croatia to study, Marie must relocate repeat edly. Initially rejecting the new places, where she is always "once again a foreigner," the resilient teen builds a life and finds beauty in each. When her mother comes to England, Vesna, immersed …
Tales of Happiness and Misery
Q&A:WLT INTERVIEWS ^I^4iy¿jj4l¡^g^^ ^h X u O *: z oc O >i oc ^ O u O O x Koch,theauthor ofsevenbooks,is a Swissjournalist. He is thetwotime recipient oftheEgonErwin KischPrizefor German-language journalism (1988and 1996);hiscarefully constructed, dystopian first novel,Sara tanzt (Saradances)was awardedtheMaraCassensPrizefor thebestfirst novelof 2003.Notableamonghisworksaretheriveting novelDerFlambeur (Theflimflam flambeur), basedonthedifficult li…
Pannonia Imperilled
This essay explores the significance of the works of the Serbian–Jewish–Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš (1935–89) more than twenty years after his untimely passing. To understand Kiš's place in Serbian culture today, it is necessary to revisit the controversies that bedevilled his public reception in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s; to understand Kiš's place in Central European history today, though, it is necessary to broaden our familiarity with h…
[T]he Ghost of Myself
Joanne Harris’s Sleep, Pale Sister (1994) is one of a growing number of neo-Victorian texts to foreground a concern with the female body and the male artist. Such tropes are reminiscent of the Victorian sensation novel, and indeed Harris’s text draws heavily on the plot of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860). Through an exploration of Harris’s novel, this article considers the role of the female body as objet d’art in neo-sensation fiction…
SÃ1⁄4hne
reviews resulted in massive evacuations and downright starvation. He and Berlin do not lack for history, and as far as the city is concerned, even with all that’s been destroyed or forgotten, he is right that, if anything, an excess of history remains today. Ulf Zimmermann Kennesaw State University Araceli Tinajero. Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón. Madrid. Editorial Verbum. 2012. isbn 9788479627119 Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón is a memoir that rel…
Das Feuer im Spiegel
76 World Literature Today reviews have become devoted followers of his writing, The Secret of Evil constitutes an essential piece in Roberto Bolaño’s magnificent oeuvre. Andrew Martino Southern New Hampshire University Jurij Koch. Das Feuer im Spiegel. Bautzen, Germany. Domowina. 2012. isbn 9783742022370 One of the most interesting hidden chapters of modern German history remains the story of the Sorbian communities of Upper and Lower Lusatia (Ob…
Zwischenspiel by Monika Maron
104 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews he claims that “honest conversation ” with Karim is now impossible because of “the Niagara of suspicion and prejudice and brashness cascading around us.” It might be pointed out that suspicion and the rest are not unnatural in the documented circumstances of relations between Muslim immigrants and the locals in present-day Denmark and elsewhere in Europe. M. D. Allen University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley Pierre L…
Weltschmerz in the Banat
The 1921 novel Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću (The Carnojevic Diaries), which launched the career of the Serbian intellectual Miloš Crnjanski, was a bold attempt to come to terms with the effects of World War I in the ethnically mixed region of the Banat in southern Hungary. The novel portrays savage fighting on the Eastern front, long recuperation times for its protagonist in hospitals, and unsettling homecomings, and in these ways it exhibits similariti…
Jurij KochGruben-Rand-Notizen
better to read one’s models or masters well than disguising who they are. For the canonical critic Ignacio Echevarr ía, Poeta chileno is not a novelistic epigone but primarily a charming, very rare, and disconcerting tribute to the poet’s vocation; a poignant settling of scores (in the third part Pato says, “He wasn’t a great poet, Bolaño”). The reception is equally enthusiastic in Spanish-language publications that are decisive in evaluating cur…
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