Richardson Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5087680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richardson Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richardson |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Probing Covert Progressions
Dan Shen has done impressive work in a number of fields of narrative theory for many years. Perhaps her most substantial achievement is her theory of covert progression, a contribution that promises to extend and refine our concept of plot. The positions she advances also invite further discussion. Concerning her target essay, one question that arises involves literary history. Many of the key examples offered by Shen (as well as by other theoris…
Response to Gerald Prince
I wish to address two points in Gerald Prince's review essay of my book; one of the points is factual, the other raises some interesting questions about the definition of narrative. Prince claims that I tend “to use terms like ‘narrative,’ ‘text,’ ‘work,’ ‘literature,’ and ‘novel’ interchangeably (see, e.g., 8, 27, 31, et passim)” (268). I have always admired Prince's rigorous definitions and careful applications of those definitions and have tri…
The Law of Epikrates of 354/3 B.C
The Tribes, the Centuries, and Romulus' Cavalry
It is generally accepted that the Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres were Rome's oldest tribes and that they provided three centuries of cavalry for Rome's earliest army. But this is to conflate two incompatible traditions. The Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres were tribes according to some, but centuries according to others. They were never both at the same time. This has consequences for the way in which Rome's cavalry was said to have originally been recru…
What Good is a (Indeed, This) History of Pragmatism
The philosophical point of the history of pragmatism offered by Cheryl Misak appears to be, to a first approximation, to recover pragmatism from Rorty. She does this by uncovering an “objectivist” pragmatist lineage that begins with Peirce and runs right through the central figures of American analytic philosophy (Sellars, Quine, Goodman, Davidson). In this essay, I raise historical puzzles for Misak’s account, including reasons to doubt that Qui…
Push, Precious , and New Narratives of Slavery in Harlem
This essay situates Sapphire's Push and the film Precious based on it in relation to the slave narrative and neoslave narrative as genres in African American literary history. It draws on James Olney's classic critical elaboration of defining features of the slave narrative to examine ways in which both the novel and film cite features of this genre in their composition and formal design. In its first section, the essay explores parallel scenes i…
Our Stories Have Never Been Told
Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman earned a place in cinematic history as the first feature-length narrative film written and directed by an out black lesbian about black lesbians. This article examines how the film provides an important opportunity to mark the burgeoning genre of black queer documentary as a historiographical medium. The documentary film is a tool that highlights underexplored issues in black experience and provides a…
Fictions of Dissent
Religious Experience and the New Woman
Reviewed by: Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall LeeAnne M. Richardson (bio) Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, by Joanna Dean; pp. x + 322. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007, $19.95, £14.99. This biography of Lily Dougall narrates the life of a novelist, theologian, and lesbian, and occupies—or, perhaps, destabilizes—multiple disciplinary categories. Dougall w…
Blowing British
Eléments de mathématiques modernes
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Eléments de mathématiques modernes
Blowing British
Religious Experience and the New Woman
Reviewed by: Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall LeeAnne M. Richardson (bio) Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, by Joanna Dean; pp. x + 322. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007, $19.95, £14.99. This biography of Lily Dougall narrates the life of a novelist, theologian, and lesbian, and occupies—or, perhaps, destabilizes—multiple disciplinary categories. Dougall w…
Our Stories Have Never Been Told
Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman earned a place in cinematic history as the first feature-length narrative film written and directed by an out black lesbian about black lesbians. This article examines how the film provides an important opportunity to mark the burgeoning genre of black queer documentary as a historiographical medium. The documentary film is a tool that highlights underexplored issues in black experience and provides a…
Fictions of Dissent
Push, Precious , and New Narratives of Slavery in Harlem
This essay situates Sapphire's Push and the film Precious based on it in relation to the slave narrative and neoslave narrative as genres in African American literary history. It draws on James Olney's classic critical elaboration of defining features of the slave narrative to examine ways in which both the novel and film cite features of this genre in their composition and formal design. In its first section, the essay explores parallel scenes i…
What Good is a (Indeed, This) History of Pragmatism
The philosophical point of the history of pragmatism offered by Cheryl Misak appears to be, to a first approximation, to recover pragmatism from Rorty. She does this by uncovering an “objectivist” pragmatist lineage that begins with Peirce and runs right through the central figures of American analytic philosophy (Sellars, Quine, Goodman, Davidson). In this essay, I raise historical puzzles for Misak’s account, including reasons to doubt that Qui…
Probing Covert Progressions
Dan Shen has done impressive work in a number of fields of narrative theory for many years. Perhaps her most substantial achievement is her theory of covert progression, a contribution that promises to extend and refine our concept of plot. The positions she advances also invite further discussion. Concerning her target essay, one question that arises involves literary history. Many of the key examples offered by Shen (as well as by other theoris…
Response to Gerald Prince
I wish to address two points in Gerald Prince's review essay of my book; one of the points is factual, the other raises some interesting questions about the definition of narrative. Prince claims that I tend “to use terms like ‘narrative,’ ‘text,’ ‘work,’ ‘literature,’ and ‘novel’ interchangeably (see, e.g., 8, 27, 31, et passim)” (268). I have always admired Prince's rigorous definitions and careful applications of those definitions and have tri…
The Law of Epikrates of 354/3 B.C
The Tribes, the Centuries, and Romulus' Cavalry
It is generally accepted that the Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres were Rome's oldest tribes and that they provided three centuries of cavalry for Rome's earliest army. But this is to conflate two incompatible traditions. The Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres were tribes according to some, but centuries according to others. They were never both at the same time. This has consequences for the way in which Rome's cavalry was said to have originally been recru…
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