The Anthology of Babel
- Edited by Ed Simon
Published on January 24, 2020 by punctum books
- Pages
- 398 pages
- Languages
- English
- Dimensions
- 5⤫8 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-1-950192-47-2 (Paperback)
- ISBN (PDF)
- ISBN: 978-1-950192-48-9 (PDF)
- LCCN
- LCCN: 2019951803
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: LIT007000
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: DNL
Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors should be no impediment to interpreting their invented writings. In the first collection of its kind, The Anthology of Babel publishes essays by scholars on authors, books, and movements that are completely invented. Blurring the lines between scholarship and creative writing, The Anthology of Babel inaugurates a completely new literary genre perfectly attuned to the era we live in, a project evocative of Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino.
Contents
Frontmatter (1–10)
Ed Simon
Introduction: Labyrinths of Imagined Literature (15–25)
Ed Simon
The Body-Loving Philosophers (27–48)
Stephen David Engel
Encounters with the Unknown and Manifestations of Fear: Discerning the Purpose of the "Great Darkness Text" (49–72)
Seth Ligo
The "Romance of the Minotaur" Revisited (73–89)
Katherine McLoone
“The Very Globe Came Undone”: Ontological Negation in Enoch Campion’s "The Tragedy of Dracule" (91–100)
Ed Simon
“All My Heroines Must Like Him”: Circumscribing the Spouse in Jane Austen’s "Plan of a Husband" (101–118)
Tom Zille
Linus Withold and the Birth of the Rhizomatic Text (119–137)
Eric D. Lehman
Eighth Draft of “First-Order Variables & Repression: Oedipal Relations in ‘The Sandwich’ by Rubiard Whimp” by James Lichtenstein (139–Austin Sarfan)
Austin Sarfan
Under Imaginary Skies: Scholarly Variations on "The Rainberg Variations" (157–171)
Reed Johnson
Pedro Somar, traductor de Ramned, autor del Quijote (173–195)
David Ben-Merre, Raul Neira
"El fin del mundo": Uncharted Territory of Ernest Hemingway’s Fiction (197–213)
Maria-Josee Mendez
The Unfinished and Lost Texts of Richard A. Conlan: An Examination of an Obsession, by Mark Conlan, Ph.D. (215–234)
James Speese
Stirring the Sentient Dust: Marie-Rose Souci’s "The Grey Moth" (235–249)
Claire Daigle
Traduttore, Traditore: Authorial Inconsistencies in the Works of Redondo Panza (251–260)
Julia Coursey
The Purists: Cooperative Fundamentalism and Aesthetic Dogmatics (261–278)
Matthew Newcomb
From Paratext to Text, Scholar to Ragpicker: Inverted Criticism and the “Heidi B. Morton Papers and Library" (279–303)
Ryan Marnane
“What Else Was There To Do?”: Fat Futurity and the Limits of Narrative Imagination in Desolation (305–321)
Em K. Falk
“All My Life My Writing Is”: "The Auto-Bio-Graph of Smalloysius F.: Being Told by Itself" (323–344)
Stephen Hock
The Gravity of the Situation (345–363)
Bruce Krajewski
Darkness Made Visible: Eamonn Peters on Imagined Literature (365–387)
Ed Simon
Biographies
Ed Simon is a senior editor at the Marginalia Review of Books(opens in new tab), a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. A specialist in early modern literature and religion by training (PhD in English, Lehigh University), he is a regular contributor to multiple zines and journals such as The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, Berfrois, Jacobin, Tikkun, Salon, and Atlas Obscura, among others. His first collection of essays, America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post Religion, will be published by Zero Books in 2018.
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Genres
- Literary Studies
Keywords
- Babel
- imaginary literature
- Jorge Luis Borges
- labyrinths
- literary criticism
- literary studies
- philosophy