{"id":10843,"date":"2014-06-13T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:27:49","slug":"mla-2015-weird-fiction-weird-methods-rountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/13\/mla-2015-weird-fiction-weird-methods-rountable\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA 2015: &#8220;Weird Fiction, Weird Methods&#8221; roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLA 2015 Vancouver, session roundtable on \u201cWeird Fiction, Weird Methods\u201d.  Does weird fiction have a single coherent approach and origin?  Does it need to be read and studied differently than other fiction?  Can it find a place in academia, or is it just too&#8230; <em>weird<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>* Kate Marshall (elements of American naturalist literature may have been co-opted by the early weird)<\/p>\n<p>* S. T. Joshi (recapping Lovecraft&#8217;s theories of the weird)<\/p>\n<p>* Ali Sperling (the early literary weird should be understood as part of the history of modernist literature)<\/p>\n<p>* Matthew Taylor (what the new Speculative Realist philosophy has taken from the old weird, especially re: autonomous self-generating systems that have unhuman frames of reference)<\/p>\n<p>* Eileen Joy (can academics develop a weird methodology for weird literature, by borrowing ideas from the philosophers of OOO Speculative Realism?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLA 2015 Vancouver, session roundtable on \u201cWeird Fiction, Weird Methods\u201d. Does weird fiction have a single coherent approach and origin? &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/13\/mla-2015-weird-fiction-weird-methods-rountable\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}