Department of Rhetoric, Writing and Communications

From Posthumanist Anaesthetics to Promethean Dialectics: Further Considerations on the Category of the Hysterical Sublime

Flisfeder, Matthew (Taylor and Francis, 2023-04-25)

This essay proposes a critique of posthumanist critical theory through the development of the category of the hysterical sublime, a concept first introduced by Fredric Jameson in his early writings on postmodernism. While ...

Freedom and Alienation; Or, Humanism of the Non-All

Flisfeder, Matthew (2022)

Today, the popular concept of the Anthropocene, used to denote the human geological age, puts to question the centrality of human subjectivity as an ethical agency. Critical posthumanism, in this context, demands the ...

Language ideology of bilingual education policies for ethno-linguistic minorities in South Korea

Kang, Mi Ok; Sohn, Bong-gi (The Korean Educational Administration Society, 2016-12)

Drawing from the national and regional governments’ bilingual education policy documents for the languages of ethno-linguistic minorities, we investigated the intersections between bilingual education in the languages of ...

Translanguaging and trans-semiotizing for critical Integration of content and language in plurilingual educational settings

Sohn, Bong-gi; Lin, Angela M. Y. (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) Regional Language Centre (RELC), 2022)

Arising in Europe in the early 1990s, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has become a popular educational approach. CLIL involves a dual focus on content and language learning with an additional language used ...

Avant-propos: Compagnons à la lisière de l'Islande

McGillivray, Andrew (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), 2019)

La récente publication de Wayward Heroes, traduite par Philip Roughton, constitue un événement marquant pour la littérature mondiale. Il s’agit de la première traduction directe de l’islandais à anglais du roman Gerpla de ...

Foreword: Companions on the Edge of Iceland

McGillivray, Andrew (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), 2019)

The recent publication of Wayward Heroes, translated by Philip Roughton, marks a significant event for world literature, the first direct translation from Icelandic to English of Halldór Laxness’s masterpiece novel Gerpla. ...

The Apostle of Reason: Hegel & The Desire for Emancipation in the 21st Century

Flisfeder, Matthew (CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory, 2019-09-18)

This article critically engages Todd McGowan's book, Emancipation After Hegel. Through McGowan's book, the author offers a Marxist-Hegelian interpretation of universal emancipation elaborated through a Lacanian psychoanalytic ...

Icelandic Culture and Concepts of the Æsir in Manitoba

McGillivray, Andrew (CSS Publications (Centre for Scandinavian Studies), 2017)

The Icelandic community in Manitoba continually translates its cultural heritage into a Canadian context, a process that began in 1875 at the time of initial Icelandic settlement in the Interlake region. Like other settler ...

Gender and Subversion in Medieval Icelandic Legend and Saga

McGillivray, Andrew (Roda da Fortuna: Revista Eletrônica sobre Antiguidade e Medievo / Electronic Journal about Antiquity and Middle Ages, 2017)

The saga writers of medieval Iceland rhetorically engage with contemporary social issues in their narratives, including issues faced by women and, in particular, the treatment of women in regard to their marriages. Many ...

Influences of Pre-Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry: A Narrative Study of Vafþrúðnismál

McGillivray, Andrew (Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2018)

Abstract: In this study, McGillivray explores the cultural environment in which the Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál was composed and reexamines the relationship between form and content in the poem and the respective influences ...

The Entrepreneurial Subject and the Objectivization of the Self in Social Media

Flisfeder, Matthew (Duke University Press, 2015)

Morality or Enjoyment? On Althusser’s Ideological Supplement of the Law

Flisfeder, Matthew (Mediations, 2017)

Love and Sex in the Age of Capitalist Realism: On Spike Jonze’s Her

Flisfeder, Matthew; Burnham, Clint (The University of Texas Press, 2017)

Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) is a film about a romantic relationship between a man and an operating system. Using a Lacanian and Žižekian psychoanalytic framework, we interpret this film in the context of what the cultural ...

“Trump” - What does the name signify?; or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right: Three Contradictions of the Present Conjuncture.

Flisfeder, Matthew (Cultural Politics, 2018)

This article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and ...