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Publications by Jesse Kavadlo
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, 2020
Review essay of: Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monst... more Review essay of:
Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke
Douglas Keesey, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk
David McCracken, Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels
New Jersey English Journal , 2020
While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging text... more While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging texts. Rather than beginning in-class discussions by learning what students think, we can use what social media theorists refer to as “ambient awareness” to start at a more advanced stage to cultivate student confusion for pedagogical purposes.
PopMatters, 2019
This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of... more This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of hell.
Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy ... more Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy manuscripts, the award-winning author talks typewriters, telephones, and why he doesn't think of himself as a novelist.
Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and end... more Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and endings themselves are best emblematized by a dysfunctional father/son relationship.
What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears f... more What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears from our stories? What does it mean when our stories and our characters, unlike our lives, refuse to come to an end?
Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing Using Technology, Sep 2013
Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, May 2013
Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2006
Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy, 2005
X-Men and Philosophy, 2009
Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 2000
Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic …, 2011
Studies in Popular Culture30, 2007
Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, Jan 2012
Currents in Teaching and Learning, 2010
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, 2020
Review essay of: Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monst... more Review essay of:
Francisco Collado-Rodriguez (ed), Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke
Douglas Keesey, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk
David McCracken, Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels
New Jersey English Journal , 2020
While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging text... more While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging texts. Rather than beginning in-class discussions by learning what students think, we can use what social media theorists refer to as “ambient awareness” to start at a more advanced stage to cultivate student confusion for pedagogical purposes.
PopMatters, 2019
This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of... more This book review/essay/interview examines some of the cultural origins and literary iterations of hell.
Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy ... more Forget everything you think you know about Paul Auster: with the release of his New York Trilogy manuscripts, the award-winning author talks typewriters, telephones, and why he doesn't think of himself as a novelist.
Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and end... more Somehow, without realizing it, for both DeLillo and Rowling, death, the end of the world, and endings themselves are best emblematized by a dysfunctional father/son relationship.
What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears f... more What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears from our stories? What does it mean when our stories and our characters, unlike our lives, refuse to come to an end?
Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing Using Technology, Sep 2013
Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, May 2013
Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2006
Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy, 2005
X-Men and Philosophy, 2009
Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 2000
Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic …, 2011
Studies in Popular Culture30, 2007
Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, Jan 2012
Currents in Teaching and Learning, 2010
Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in t... more Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures argues that popular culture has been preoccupied by fantasies and narratives dominated by the anxiety —and, strangely, the wish fulfillment—that comes from the breakdowns of morality, family, law and order, and storytelling itself. From aging superheroes to young adult dystopias, heroic killers to lustrous vampires, the figures of our fiction, film, and television again and again reveal and revel in the imagery of terror. Kavadlo's single-author, thesis-driven book makes the case that many of the novels and films about September 11, 2001, have been about much more than terrorism alone, while popular stories that may not seem related to September 11 are deeply connected to it.
The book examines New York novels written in response to September 11 along with the anti-heroes of television and the resurgence of zombies and vampires in film and fiction to draw a correlation between Kavadlo's "Era of Terror" and the events of September 11, 2001. Geared toward college students, graduate students, and academics interested in popular culture, the book connects multiple topics to appeal to a wide audience.
Features
Provides an interesting new framework in which to examine popular culture
Examines films, television shows, and primary texts such as novels for evidence of cultural anxiety and a preoccupation with terror
Offers insightful and original interpretations of primary texts
Suggests possible conclusions about cultural anxiety regarding breakdowns of tradition and authority
Author Michel Chabon is acutely attuned to life in contemporary America, providing insight into t... more Author Michel Chabon is acutely attuned to life in contemporary America, providing insight into the history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in novels such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), Wonder Boys (1995), and Telegraph Avenue (2012). The Pulitzer prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Chabon follows in the footsteps of past stylists, writing across multiple genres that include young-adult literature, essays, and screenplays. Despite his broad success, however, Chabon’s work has not been adequately examined from a critical perspective.
Michael Chabon’s America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces is the first scholarly collection of essays analyzing the work of the acclaimed author. This book demonstrates how Chabon uses a broad range of styles and genres, including detective and comic book fiction, to define the American experience. These essays assess and analyze Chabon’s complete oeuvre, demonstrating his deep connection to the contemporary world and his place as a literary force.
Providing a context for understanding the author’s work from cultural, historical, and stylistic perspectives, Michael Chabon’s America is a valuable study of a celebrated author whose work deserves close examination.
New Yok: Peter Lang, 2004
Don DeLillo - winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusale... more Don DeLillo - winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize - is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial culture, this book argues that DeLillo’s recent novels - White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, and The Body Artist - are more concerned with spiritual crisis. Although DeLillo’s worlds are rife with rejection of belief and littered with faithfulness, estrangement, and desperation, his novels provide a balancing moral corrective against the conditions they describe. Speaking the vernacular of contemporary America, DeLillo explores the mysteries of what it means to be human.
Review of Michael Chabon's book, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
Mfs-modern Fiction Studies, 2010
This latest issue of Praxis comes on the heels of the University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate... more This latest issue of Praxis comes on the heels of the University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Writing Center's 20th Anniversary and Symposium. This weekend-long event featured nearly thirty individual and panel presentations from writing center practitioners discussing the changing future of writing centers-technologically, theoretically, pedagogically, administratively, and globally. And although we did not issue a formal call for themed submission this issue, the focus articles and columns here all reflect that changes for writing centers are certainly on the horizon; figuring the ways to merge traditions of the past with practices for the future place writing centers in the U.S. and abroad at a crossroads.