Walter Kalaidjian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Kalaidjian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalaidjian |
| SIGNATURE | KALAIDJIAN W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Refinding the Object in Modern Fiction Studies
Grounded deeply in psychoanalytic theories, the article illustrates how "oral satisfactions of eating and drinking" in The Garden of Eden connect with "object relations" in the understanding of character development. Also discussed: works by Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Patrick McGrath
Traversing Psychosis: Lacan, Topology, and ‘The Jet-Propelled Couch
Traversing Psychosis: Lacan, Topology, and ‘The Jet-Propelled Couch’ Walter Kalaidjian (bio) Reaching back to his 1951 collaboration with Georges Th. Guilbaud, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Émile Benveniste, Jacques Lacan had a life-long fascination with topology.1 From his invocation of the torus in his 1953 Rome Address, through his turn in the 1960s to the Möbius strip, Klein bottle, and cross-cap, Lacan’s near obsessive engagement with topology cu…
Incoming: Globalization, Disaster, Poetics
Research Article| October 01 2007 Incoming: Globalization, Disaster, Poetics Walter Kalaidjian Walter Kalaidjian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 825–848. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-048 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
The Red Decade and the Blue Guitar
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941
In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics. Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and…
American Culture between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique
American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique
This study examines the feminist, African-American and populist that flourished in the era of American modernism. Arguing that American modernism runs much deeper than the seminal contributions of Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Kalaidjian revisits the historical avant-garde showcased in magazines of the period. This revisionary study discusses public art in the Depression era, proletarian subculture, and the social poetics of Kenneth…
The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry
Introductions and interdictions Unmeaning jagon / Uncanonized beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet The child who writes / The child who died Dirty jokes and angels: Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan - Writing the Gay community Gertrude Stein's doggerel Yiddish: women, dogs and Jews Afterword: closer than close
Mainlining Postmodernism: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and the Art of Intervention
Postmodern Culture - Volume 2, Number 3, May 1992
Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetics of Specific Critique: "Rereading "The Book of the Dead
t is an instructive paradox that in the divisive milieu of the Depression era, the sign of a poem's cultural power lay not in its widespread acclaim, as it does today, but instead in the critical conflict it provoked. Indeed, entire careers of this period record in their twists and turns the historical pressures that writers were compelled to negotiate. Most notably, of course, Archibald MacLeish went the full gamut of interbellum political life.…
Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry
Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945
Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry
Many of Our Waters: The Poetry of James Wright
At first glance, the movement of James Wright's career away from the initial apprenticeship to traditional verse forms to his later postmodernist innovations, under the influence of Robert Bly's deep poetry and Spanish surrealism, appears erratic and disjunctive, lacking in a common center of inspiration and unifying technique. His final quest from Shall We Gather at the River to To a Blossoming Pear Tree for a more personal style-a more authenti…
Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetics of Specific Critique: "Rereading "The Book of the Dead
t is an instructive paradox that in the divisive milieu of the Depression era, the sign of a poem's cultural power lay not in its widespread acclaim, as it does today, but instead in the critical conflict it provoked. Indeed, entire careers of this period record in their twists and turns the historical pressures that writers were compelled to negotiate. Most notably, of course, Archibald MacLeish went the full gamut of interbellum political life.…
Traversing Psychosis: Lacan, Topology, and ‘The Jet-Propelled Couch
Traversing Psychosis: Lacan, Topology, and ‘The Jet-Propelled Couch’ Walter Kalaidjian (bio) Reaching back to his 1951 collaboration with Georges Th. Guilbaud, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Émile Benveniste, Jacques Lacan had a life-long fascination with topology.1 From his invocation of the torus in his 1953 Rome Address, through his turn in the 1960s to the Möbius strip, Klein bottle, and cross-cap, Lacan’s near obsessive engagement with topology cu…
Many of Our Waters: The Poetry of James Wright
At first glance, the movement of James Wright's career away from the initial apprenticeship to traditional verse forms to his later postmodernist innovations, under the influence of Robert Bly's deep poetry and Spanish surrealism, appears erratic and disjunctive, lacking in a common center of inspiration and unifying technique. His final quest from Shall We Gather at the River to To a Blossoming Pear Tree for a more personal style-a more authenti…
Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry
Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945
Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry
Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetics of Specific Critique: "Rereading "The Book of the Dead
t is an instructive paradox that in the divisive milieu of the Depression era, the sign of a poem's cultural power lay not in its widespread acclaim, as it does today, but instead in the critical conflict it provoked. Indeed, entire careers of this period record in their twists and turns the historical pressures that writers were compelled to negotiate. Most notably, of course, Archibald MacLeish went the full gamut of interbellum political life.…
Mainlining Postmodernism: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and the Art of Intervention
Postmodern Culture - Volume 2, Number 3, May 1992
American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique
This study examines the feminist, African-American and populist that flourished in the era of American modernism. Arguing that American modernism runs much deeper than the seminal contributions of Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Kalaidjian revisits the historical avant-garde showcased in magazines of the period. This revisionary study discusses public art in the Depression era, proletarian subculture, and the social poetics of Kenneth…
The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry
Introductions and interdictions Unmeaning jagon / Uncanonized beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet The child who writes / The child who died Dirty jokes and angels: Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan - Writing the Gay community Gertrude Stein's doggerel Yiddish: women, dogs and Jews Afterword: closer than close
American Culture between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941
In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics. Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and…
The Red Decade and the Blue Guitar
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
Incoming: Globalization, Disaster, Poetics
Research Article| October 01 2007 Incoming: Globalization, Disaster, Poetics Walter Kalaidjian Walter Kalaidjian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 825–848. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-048 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
Traversing Psychosis: Lacan, Topology, and ‘The Jet-Propelled Couch
Traversing Psychosis: Lacan, Topology, and ‘The Jet-Propelled Couch’ Walter Kalaidjian (bio) Reaching back to his 1951 collaboration with Georges Th. Guilbaud, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Émile Benveniste, Jacques Lacan had a life-long fascination with topology.1 From his invocation of the torus in his 1953 Rome Address, through his turn in the 1960s to the Möbius strip, Klein bottle, and cross-cap, Lacan’s near obsessive engagement with topology cu…
Refinding the Object in Modern Fiction Studies
Grounded deeply in psychoanalytic theories, the article illustrates how "oral satisfactions of eating and drinking" in The Garden of Eden connect with "object relations" in the understanding of character development. Also discussed: works by Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Patrick McGrath
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