Reading, investment, and guarantee: The Pale King and the authority of the modern literary archive
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2019.1684027
Abstract: ABSTRACTThis article argues that an analysis of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished and posthumously published novel The Pale King, alongside its various drafts and ‘genetic’ materials, can illuminat... read more here.
Keywords: pale king; reading investment; guarantee pale; king authority ... See more keywords
Rereading Cain, Abel, and Martin Luther King Jr in Charles Johnson’s Dreamer
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DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fraa012
Abstract: Charles Johnson sets his 1998 novel Dreamer during the Chicago Freedom Movement that Martin Luther King Jr led in 1966. Alongside his fictionalised King character, Johnson imagines a doppelganger, Chaym Smith. Johnson develops the story… read more here.
Keywords: luther king; martin luther; charles johnson; cain ... See more keywords
King Alfred and the Sibyl: sources of praise in the Latin acrostic verses of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 671
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DOI: 10.1111/emed.12331
Abstract: This article offers an analysis of the possible sources that influenced the composition of the sole surviving set of Latin verses that were composed for the Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the Great (871–899). In particular, a… read more here.
Keywords: king alfred; praise latin; alfred sibyl; sibyl sources ... See more keywords