- Cedar Crest College, Creative Writing Masters Degree Program, Department Memberadd
- Julian Barnes, Historiographic Metafiction, Autobiography and life writing studies, Dmitri Shostakovich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, and 14 moreBiographical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Hybrid writing, Regionalism, Cormac McCarthy, Literary fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Lyric Essay, Experimental fiction, Metafiction, History of the Book, Print Culture, Book History and the History of Reading, Editing (Creative Writing), and Independent Publishingedit
- Author, editor, teacher, and frequent public speaker on books & literary culture. Founder/publisher, Atelier26 Books. Contributing editor, Moss literary journal. 8 published boo... moreAuthor, editor, teacher, and frequent public speaker on books & literary culture. Founder/publisher, Atelier26 Books. Contributing editor, Moss literary journal. 8 published books (fiction & nonfiction). Perpetua's Kin, a novel, coming fall 2018. Short fiction, nonfiction, and critical writing in many publications including The Kenyon Review, American Book Review, The Oregonian, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Lit Hub, Epoch, Boulevard, Glimmer Train, Tin House, Catamaran, Fiction Writers Review, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. www.MAllenCunningham.comedit
An essay by M. Allen Cunningham considering Cormac McCarthy's entire corpus and the trajectory of his reputation. First published in Poets & Writers Magazine, September/October 2007.
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Cultural criticism / Hybrid Essay by M. Allen Cunningham in the form of an illustrated glossary. Presents a brief and sometimes personal survey of the culture of spectacle from the Great Exposition of 1900 to Facebook and Google Glass.... more
Cultural criticism / Hybrid Essay by M. Allen Cunningham in the form of an illustrated glossary. Presents a brief and sometimes personal survey of the culture of spectacle from the Great Exposition of 1900 to Facebook and Google Glass. Published in Oregon Humanities Magazine, spring 2013.
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Biofiction has become a dominant literary form in recent years. But what exactly is it? And how did it come into being? The editor of the American Book Review asked me to guest-edit a special issue about biofiction in order to answer... more
Biofiction has become a dominant literary form in recent years. But what exactly is it? And how did it come into being? The editor of the American Book Review asked me to guest-edit a special issue about biofiction in order to answer these and many other questions. In my introduction, I survey some of the major moments in the evolution of biofiction and I clarify how my contributors to this special issue have expanded our understanding of the literary form.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Irish Studies, Spanish Literature, Medieval Literature, and 46 moreModernism (Literature), Irish Literature, Medieval History, Australian Studies, Italian Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, The Historical Novel, French Revolution, Australia, Italian Literature, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Virginia Woolf, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Postmodernism, Irish History, Postmodern Fiction, Georg Lukacs, Modernism, Renaissance literature, Australian History, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, British and Irish History, Postmodernism (Literature), Postmodern Literature, Australian Literature, Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Leo Tolstoy, Postmodern, Georg Lukács, Arthur Rimbaud, William Shakespeare, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Biofiction, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf Studies, Roger Casement, Anne Hathaway Shakespeare, Emma Donoghue, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure. To get some better insight into the nature of biofiction, the editor of The American Book Review commissioned me to guest-edit a special issue about... more
Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure. To get some better insight into the nature of biofiction, the editor of The American Book Review commissioned me to guest-edit a special issue about biofiction. This issue contains essays and reviews from some of the most famous scholars and authors of biofiction today. Here is a link to the special issue: http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/38180
Here is a link to the introduction to the issue: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/689189/pdf
Here is a link to the introduction to the issue: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/689189/pdf
Research Interests: French Literature, Spanish Literature, Spanish, Victorian Studies, Australian Studies, and 41 moreItalian Studies, Mexican Studies, Shakespeare, The Historical Novel, Australia, Victorian Literature, Italian Literature, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Postmodernism, Australian Indigenous Studies, Postmodern Fiction, Georg Lukacs, Contemporary American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Italian Renaissance Art, Neo-Victorian Literature, Australian History, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Neo-Victorian fiction, Postmodernism (Literature), Postmodern Literature, Dmitri Shostakovich, Australian Literature, Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture, Mexican Literature, Bloomsbury Group, Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film, Postmodern, Julian Barnes, Georg Lukács, William Shakespeare, Biographical Novel, Death of the author, Neo-Victorian studies, Lytton Strachey, Biofiction, Virginia Woolf Studies, and Lizzie Borden
Introduction by M. Allen Cunningham to the book FUNNY-ASS THOREAU (Atelier26 Books, 2016). Explores the neglected subject of Henry David Thoreau's sense of humor. This essay appeared on Lit Hub, November 2016.
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"Technology & Ideology: Why Our Tools Are Never Neutral" by M. Allen Cunningham. Examines, through illustrated argument and historical anecdote, the relationships between technology, ideology, advertising, and current reading habits. This... more
"Technology & Ideology: Why Our Tools Are Never Neutral" by M. Allen Cunningham. Examines, through illustrated argument and historical anecdote, the relationships between technology, ideology, advertising, and current reading habits. This is an excerpt from Cunningham's book of cultural criticism THE FLICKERING PAGE: THE READING EXPERIENCE IN DIGITAL TIMES, illustrated by Nathan Shields (Atelier26 Books, 2014).