Congratulations to First-Year Student Nick Manai!
Congratulations to first-year student Nick Manai for getting his paper published in The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies! Nick’s paper will appear in the 2018 issue, Volume 18.
The title of Nick’s paper is “Turning Inward: Using Insight as a Catalyst for Change in The Corrections.”
Nick’s paper looks at the ways Jonathan Franzen's characters make meaningful change to their lives in his novel The Corrections. Nick argues that they are able to expand strict moral perspectives through reflection that yields insight into their own lives or the lives of their family members. Franzen's thematic commitment to insight is indicative of Marilynne Robinson's belief in the mind’s introspective powers and Foucault's concern, later in his career, with knowledge of the self. This reading also confirms Rachel Greenwald Smith's sense of the "affective hypothesis" in contemporary fiction where characters actively seek to improve their emotions, but Nick argue that rather than isolating characters, Franzen uses insight as a way to strengthen social networks (Smith 2).
The title of Nick’s paper is “Turning Inward: Using Insight as a Catalyst for Change in The Corrections.”
Nick’s paper looks at the ways Jonathan Franzen's characters make meaningful change to their lives in his novel The Corrections. Nick argues that they are able to expand strict moral perspectives through reflection that yields insight into their own lives or the lives of their family members. Franzen's thematic commitment to insight is indicative of Marilynne Robinson's belief in the mind’s introspective powers and Foucault's concern, later in his career, with knowledge of the self. This reading also confirms Rachel Greenwald Smith's sense of the "affective hypothesis" in contemporary fiction where characters actively seek to improve their emotions, but Nick argue that rather than isolating characters, Franzen uses insight as a way to strengthen social networks (Smith 2).
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