Abstract of paper to be published this summer, in The South Central Review. Following the confirmation of Einstein’s theory of relativity in 1919, the mainstream and avant-garde press erupted with news about the theory, offering commentary that ranged from clear-sighted…
Image from Jalopnik.com, “Meet Camilla” “Einstein and an Alien: Faulkner’s Tools for Building a Better Chicken House” Abstract for workshop/paper I will give at the 2015 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, in Oxford, MS. Einstein and aliens: In the early 1920s, these…
When Einstein’s theory of relativity first became known to the world in the early 1920s, there was an outpouring of attempts in 1921 by the print media, literary writers, artists and others to understand the theory and think about its meaning not only…
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