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Corina M Stan

Corina M Stan

Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of English
English
corina.stan@duke.edu
Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708-0257
311 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture

Book · January 1, 2023 The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Chapter · January 1, 2023 What happens when we shift our attention from the progress of history to the movement of actual people? This is the question we set ourselves in 2017, when we, along with several colleagues at Duke University, convened a humanities lab entitled Representin ... Full text Cite

Migration and Experimentation: Introduction

Chapter · January 1, 2023 In Ailbhe Darcy’s “Alphabet” (analyzed in this section by Ailbhe McDaid), the formal acceleration of the lines reflects the awareness of imminent ecological collapse. The poem, however, also records a hopeless resilience: it isn’t really about the end of e ... Full text Cite

Migration as Palimpsest: Introduction

Chapter · January 1, 2023 A palimpsest is a parchment or tablet used one or more times after the earlier writing has been erased, although traces may still remain. The Greek palimpsestos, “scraped again,” indexes an economy of scarcity haunted by fragmented remnants of the past. (I ... Full text Cite

Invasion and Replacement Fantasies: Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints and the French Far Right

Chapter · January 1, 2023 This chapter engages critically with Jean Raspail’s best-selling novel The Camp of the Saints (1973), in which one million Indians invade Europe through France, leading to the “conquest” of the West a few days later. In 2011, Renaud Camus transformed this ... Full text Cite

A life without a shoreline: Tropes of refugee literature in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone

Journal Article Journal of Postcolonial Writing · November 2, 2018 Through close engagement with Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Go, Went, Gone (first published in German as Gehen, ging, gegangen in 2015), this article makes a case for refugee literature as a body of texts by and about refugees which represent migration as part o ... Full text Cite

The art of distances: Ethical thinking in twentieth-century literature

Book · January 1, 2018 In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Wa ... Cite

The lures of polyphony: Socrates, joyce, schoenberg

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Reading the scene from the “Sirens” episode, Jean-Michel Rabate suggests that just as the sound produced by the seashell is an imaginary one, reproduced in an echo-chamber but existing without actual presence, the song of the sirens is a silent one. While ... Full text Cite

A Passionate Misunderstanding: Orwell’s Paris, Miller’s China

Journal Article English Studies · April 2, 2016 ABSTRACT: One of the most famous essays in the sociology of intellectuals, “Inside the Whale” (1940), has been commonly understood as an anomaly: by endorsing Henry Miller's quietism in the face of world-scale disaster, George Orwell seemed to waver from h ... Full text Cite

Listening with mental doors ajar, inter passive learning, political correctness: Rethinking the lecture today

Journal Article Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication · 2016 Cite

Review of Barbara Johnson, A Life with Mary Shelley

Book Review Contemporary Women's Writing · 2014 Cite

Fabricado en Espana

Other Echinox, XXXI · 1999 Cite

Speaking without Speaking: Stanislaw Lem's Book of Engrafted Wishes

Other Books, Crooks and Readers: The Seduction of forgery Cite

On Tact in Dark Times

Other AEON : Forum für Junge Geschichtswissenschaft Cite

Philosophies of Distance and Proximity: Who Are We When We Are Alone?

Other LitHub Translation into Chinese by Xingying Peng and Wenxuan Xue. ... Cite