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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
Office hours

Fall'26 Semester:
Mondays from 9-11 am (Allen 311)

  

Scholarly Works - Book sections

Introduction

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

The lures of polyphony: Socrates, joyce, schoenberg

Book section · 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