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• This Aggression Will Not Stand, Man: Searching for Agency in 'The Big Lebowski'. (Language and Literature)

  Author:Todd A. ComerFrom:Michigan Academician (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2002195 words Brief article "This aggression will not stand, man:" Searching for Agency in The Big Lebowski. Todd A. Comer, Michigan State University; home address: 1007 Cooper Street, Lansing, MI 48910-2715; comertod@msu.edu Joel and Ethan...

• The disabled hero: being and ethics in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings

  Author:Todd A. ComerFrom:Mythlore (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall-Winter 20168,825 words Article 1240LWhy must Peter Jackson's films be so interminably, so painfully long? My simple response is that Jackson's films are ultimately an untimely meditation on pain, on the way that a wound affects being in the world....

• An Introduction: Disability Studies and Ecocriticism.

  Authors:Todd A. Comer and Christine JunkerFrom:Studies in the Humanities (Vol. 46, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20206,341 words Article 1310LThe problem confronting us, whether we study ecology or disability, is the same: The Subject. Philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy writes, "But the individual is merely the residue of the experience of the dissolution of...

• A mortal agency: Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds

  Author:Todd A. ComerFrom:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20085,242 words Article 1290LIn addition to showing how politically oriented Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds remains despite its playful exterior, this essay constitutes an extended reflection on issues of power and agency within the postcolonial...