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The Left Turns That Led to ‘Taking Funny Music Seriously’
On March 12, 2020, I gave a book talk at California State University, Bakersfield, celebrating the release of Weird Al: Seriously. I began that book because I had wanted to confront prejudices against funny music—ideas that humor in music was somehow less significant than so-called “serious” music or classical music….
Read MoreTheory’s Theatrics in “Circe”: A Closer Look at JML 47.3
By Katherine Franco, author of “Staging the Surface: James Joyce’s Theater for Theorization in ‘Circe,’” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 3,…
Read MoreJournal of Modern Literature Call-for-Papers: “Caribbean Literatures and the Environment”
Topics addressed may include oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.
JML publishes essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century global literature….
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