Luke R J Maynard
Dr. Luke R. J. Maynard is a writer, poet, musician, and literary critic. An alumnus of the University of Victoria and the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Maynard researches and publishes as a Free Scholar, studies Law at the University of Toronto.His dissertation, defended at the University of Victoria in 2013, charts the development of the vampire in English literature from 1732 to the present, and reorders the development of Western supernatural fiction through the lens of new and emerging narratives of secularization.Complementary to his work within the academy, Dr. Maynard has worked extensively with Victoria's Tongues of Fire spoken word collective, and is a writer of poetry, fiction, plays, music, and unusually-shaped projects outside of these genres. His first CD, Desolation Sound, contains a collection of songs a song cycle celebrating the industrial boom towns of coastal BC. After a few early tracks were released in a rare 2011 demo, the project will finally enjoy commercial release in 2018. In his spare time, Dr. Maynard continues to involve himself in grassroots, student, and community literary projects, and is especially invested in contract faculty rights, alt-ac scholarship, and the future of the Humanities both within and outside the traditional academy.
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Consisting of criticism juxtaposed with segments of a creative work in progress, this presentation confronts the problems of academic precarity through the lens of Cervantes and his picaresque hero. By remediating precarity through a quixotic literary and cultural lens, this presentation will address its perils and critique the obsolete weapons with which we engage it.
This paper, then, recognizes Freudian readings of _Star_Wars_ to be well-trod ground, but addresses the question of what related branches and models in Gothic criticism have been underapplied to this Gothic narrative of deadly architecture, maimed bodies, dead hands, tyrannical fathers, and ancient religion opposed by bourgeois futurity.
A modified version of this talk is available as a free online video lecture in three parts at the following address: http://goo.gl/DTZshs
Cambridge Scholars Press has graciously made available a sample of the book consisting of the introduction, contents, and the first 20 pages. Fortunately for me, my chapter fills pages 5 to 17, meaning that their "free sample" makes available my chapter in its entirety.
A brief statement of context and commentary follows the poem.
This paper, then, begins with the facts that are known about Byron’s lost memoir, and charts some of the efforts by which Byron’s critics have sought, in a sense, a spiritual reconstruction of this lost document, even as a literal reconstruction is forever lost to them. The hard facts of Byron’s life are interpreted perpetually through a soft speculation on his character, as represented through a web of anecdotes, letters, gossip, and of course by his poetry itself. The network of Byron’s biography is a wide-ranging tapestry of texts, and this paper draws out from this tapestry the collective narrative they tell about an emblematic figure of life-writing whose ultimate will toward autobiography was stopped in its tracks by a catastrophic destruction of writing which has become, in its way, just another chapter of his story.
The original version of this talk was delivered as an oral, somewhat conversational lecture; the paper has been adapted from this, and I've left it conversational and informal in tone.
Consisting of criticism juxtaposed with segments of a creative work in progress, this presentation confronts the problems of academic precarity through the lens of Cervantes and his picaresque hero. By remediating precarity through a quixotic literary and cultural lens, this presentation will address its perils and critique the obsolete weapons with which we engage it.
This paper, then, recognizes Freudian readings of _Star_Wars_ to be well-trod ground, but addresses the question of what related branches and models in Gothic criticism have been underapplied to this Gothic narrative of deadly architecture, maimed bodies, dead hands, tyrannical fathers, and ancient religion opposed by bourgeois futurity.
A modified version of this talk is available as a free online video lecture in three parts at the following address: http://goo.gl/DTZshs
Cambridge Scholars Press has graciously made available a sample of the book consisting of the introduction, contents, and the first 20 pages. Fortunately for me, my chapter fills pages 5 to 17, meaning that their "free sample" makes available my chapter in its entirety.
A brief statement of context and commentary follows the poem.
This paper, then, begins with the facts that are known about Byron’s lost memoir, and charts some of the efforts by which Byron’s critics have sought, in a sense, a spiritual reconstruction of this lost document, even as a literal reconstruction is forever lost to them. The hard facts of Byron’s life are interpreted perpetually through a soft speculation on his character, as represented through a web of anecdotes, letters, gossip, and of course by his poetry itself. The network of Byron’s biography is a wide-ranging tapestry of texts, and this paper draws out from this tapestry the collective narrative they tell about an emblematic figure of life-writing whose ultimate will toward autobiography was stopped in its tracks by a catastrophic destruction of writing which has become, in its way, just another chapter of his story.
The original version of this talk was delivered as an oral, somewhat conversational lecture; the paper has been adapted from this, and I've left it conversational and informal in tone.