Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature
Encyclopedia
Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature (ISSN 1551-0433) is an academic journal
founded in 2004 by members of Binghamton University
's English Department. The journal was published biannually, in the winter and the summer, from 2004 - 2006 inclusive, and annually from 2007. Originally founded as a response to the growing perception of existentialism
as anachronistic to literary study, Stirrings Still serves as a forum for the discussion of the relationship between existential literature & philosophy and postmodern literature
& theory.
The journal's name is a reference to the last piece of prose published by Samuel Beckett
.
The founding editor of Stirrings Still is Erik Grayson.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
founded in 2004 by members of Binghamton University
Binghamton University
Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...
's English Department. The journal was published biannually, in the winter and the summer, from 2004 - 2006 inclusive, and annually from 2007. Originally founded as a response to the growing perception of existentialism
Existentialism
Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...
as anachronistic to literary study, Stirrings Still serves as a forum for the discussion of the relationship between existential literature & philosophy and postmodern literature
Postmodern literature
The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post–World War II literature and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature.Postmodern literature, like postmodernism as a whole, is hard to define and there is little agreement on the exact...
& theory.
The journal's name is a reference to the last piece of prose published by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
.
The founding editor of Stirrings Still is Erik Grayson.
Notable Issues
- Vol. 2, No. 2 (2005): The first collection of critical essays on American novelist Chuck PalahniukChuck PalahniukCharles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...
to appear in print. - Vol.3, No. 1 (2006): Contains a rare interview with Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
-winning South African novelist J.M. Coetzee.