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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Jonathan Eburne, "Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Description: Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry (U Minnesota Press, 2025) is the latest book by scholar Jonathan P. Eburne, J. H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. An experiment in returning to incomplete scholarly projects to renovate and reimagine them, the book stages a series of encounters with essays âsuspended in processâ: essays that Jonathan began writing but that didnât materialize in their intended form.
Fascinating, witty, and original, Exploded Views is a record of Jonathanâs intellectual curiosity in its rich idiosyncrasyâfrom the parasitical deformations of insect galls to the s...