Gert Buelens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1103582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gert Buelens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gert |
| FAMILY NAME | Buelens |
| SIGNATURE | BUELENS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Confidence
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Confidence is one of James's least-known novels, but its handling of point of view and the ethics of observing other people, its succession of often vividly-evoked settings – Siena, Baden-Baden, New York City, Paris, London – and its fascinating similarities …
Speaking Surfaces in James’s Siena
This essay examines anthropomorphised sites and buildings in “Siena Early and Late,” which convey a spectral quality that shines through apparently resistant surfaces. The challenge to penetration is welcomed more than deplored by James. He side-steps opportunities for in-depth probing, deriving profit from submission to an overpowering sense of historical significance and aesthetic meaning. That sense is sustained by the rhetorical power of the …
The Future of Trauma Theory
Knowledge, afterwardsness and the future of trauma theory / Robert Eaglestone -- Fascism and the sacred: sites of inquiry after (or along with) trauma / Dominick Lacapra -- Beyond eurocentrism: trauma theory in the global age / Stef Craps -- Affect, body, place: trauma theory in the world / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Trauma ties: Chiasmus and community in Lebanese civil war literature / Nouri Gana -- The end of trauma theory, or on not seeking prot…
Introduction Authorship as Cultural Performance
This article proposes a performative model of authorship, based on the historical alternation between predominantly 'weak' and 'strong' author concepts and related practices of writing, publication and reading. Based on this model, we give a brief overview of the historical development of such author concepts in English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. We argue for a more holistic approach to authorship within a cultural …
Enacting History in Henry James
Confounding Closed Systems”
In contemporary Jewish American fiction, the themes of immigration and resettlement take on a renewed significance. In various short stories and novels, a threefold composition – (prewar) life in Europe, the transatlantic journey and settlement in America – serves as a starting point for the contemplation of postwar Jewish American identity. Rebecca Goldstein’s novel Mazel is an excellent example of this. The novel reconstructs the lives of three…
Introduction
Trauma studies, an area of cultural investigation that came to prominence in the early-to-mid-1990s, prides itself on its explicit commitment to ethics, which sets it apart from the poststructuralist criticism of the 1970s and early 1980s in which it has its roots.Standing accused of irrelevance or indifference to "real-world" issues such as history, politics, and ethics because of its predominantly epistemological focus, this earlier, "textualis…
Above and Beneath Classification
Above and Beneath Classification": Bartleby, Life and Times of Michael K, and Syntagmatic Participation Gert Buelens (bio) and Dominiek Hoens (bio) The history of the relation between the law, norm, or rule on the one hand and what forms an exception to that rule on the other is complex and multifaceted.1 In the most general terms, one could posit that the exception is that which escapes from the rule. Thus, confronted with the strangeness of Mic…
Absentee American and Impatient Immigrant (Re)appraising the Promised Land
Henry James and the "Aliens"
Henry James and the “Aliens” intervenes substantially in current debates in James studies, most notably in the key areas of cultural studies, ethnic studies and queer studies. Focusing throughout on questions of identity, and most prominently on how the latter is given shape in the very form of the late style, the book finds that James’s response to the ethnic other can be grasped neither as an attempt to police, supervise and master the other, n…
Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Constitution of Identity in The Wings of the Dove
In The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson writes Language has of necessity recourse to indirection, to substitution: ... it must replace [an] empty center of content with something else, and it does so either by saying what the content is like (metaphor), or describing its context and the contours of its absence, listing the things that border around it (metonymy). Thus language, by its very nature, is either analogical or fetishistic....”…
The Western Home
The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Get access The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Gert Buelens Gert Bue…
The American poet and his city
The Jewish Immigrant Experience
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Above and Beneath Classification
Above and Beneath Classification": Bartleby, Life and Times of Michael K, and Syntagmatic Participation Gert Buelens (bio) and Dominiek Hoens (bio) The history of the relation between the law, norm, or rule on the one hand and what forms an exception to that rule on the other is complex and multifaceted.1 In the most general terms, one could posit that the exception is that which escapes from the rule. Thus, confronted with the strangeness of Mic…
Introduction Authorship as Cultural Performance
This article proposes a performative model of authorship, based on the historical alternation between predominantly 'weak' and 'strong' author concepts and related practices of writing, publication and reading. Based on this model, we give a brief overview of the historical development of such author concepts in English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. We argue for a more holistic approach to authorship within a cultural …
The Jewish Immigrant Experience
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The American poet and his city
The Western Home
The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Get access The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Orm Øverland. Northfield, MN: Norwegian American Historical Association (distributed by University of Illinois Press), 1996. xii + 442 pages. $44.95. Gert Buelens Gert Bue…
Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Constitution of Identity in The Wings of the Dove
In The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson writes Language has of necessity recourse to indirection, to substitution: ... it must replace [an] empty center of content with something else, and it does so either by saying what the content is like (metaphor), or describing its context and the contours of its absence, listing the things that border around it (metonymy). Thus language, by its very nature, is either analogical or fetishistic....”…
Henry James and the "Aliens"
Henry James and the “Aliens” intervenes substantially in current debates in James studies, most notably in the key areas of cultural studies, ethnic studies and queer studies. Focusing throughout on questions of identity, and most prominently on how the latter is given shape in the very form of the late style, the book finds that James’s response to the ethnic other can be grasped neither as an attempt to police, supervise and master the other, n…
Absentee American and Impatient Immigrant (Re)appraising the Promised Land
Above and Beneath Classification
Above and Beneath Classification": Bartleby, Life and Times of Michael K, and Syntagmatic Participation Gert Buelens (bio) and Dominiek Hoens (bio) The history of the relation between the law, norm, or rule on the one hand and what forms an exception to that rule on the other is complex and multifaceted.1 In the most general terms, one could posit that the exception is that which escapes from the rule. Thus, confronted with the strangeness of Mic…
Introduction
Trauma studies, an area of cultural investigation that came to prominence in the early-to-mid-1990s, prides itself on its explicit commitment to ethics, which sets it apart from the poststructuralist criticism of the 1970s and early 1980s in which it has its roots.Standing accused of irrelevance or indifference to "real-world" issues such as history, politics, and ethics because of its predominantly epistemological focus, this earlier, "textualis…
Enacting History in Henry James
Confounding Closed Systems”
In contemporary Jewish American fiction, the themes of immigration and resettlement take on a renewed significance. In various short stories and novels, a threefold composition – (prewar) life in Europe, the transatlantic journey and settlement in America – serves as a starting point for the contemplation of postwar Jewish American identity. Rebecca Goldstein’s novel Mazel is an excellent example of this. The novel reconstructs the lives of three…
Introduction Authorship as Cultural Performance
This article proposes a performative model of authorship, based on the historical alternation between predominantly 'weak' and 'strong' author concepts and related practices of writing, publication and reading. Based on this model, we give a brief overview of the historical development of such author concepts in English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. We argue for a more holistic approach to authorship within a cultural …
The Future of Trauma Theory
Knowledge, afterwardsness and the future of trauma theory / Robert Eaglestone -- Fascism and the sacred: sites of inquiry after (or along with) trauma / Dominick Lacapra -- Beyond eurocentrism: trauma theory in the global age / Stef Craps -- Affect, body, place: trauma theory in the world / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Trauma ties: Chiasmus and community in Lebanese civil war literature / Nouri Gana -- The end of trauma theory, or on not seeking prot…
Speaking Surfaces in James’s Siena
This essay examines anthropomorphised sites and buildings in “Siena Early and Late,” which convey a spectral quality that shines through apparently resistant surfaces. The challenge to penetration is welcomed more than deplored by James. He side-steps opportunities for in-depth probing, deriving profit from submission to an overpowering sense of historical significance and aesthetic meaning. That sense is sustained by the rhetorical power of the …
Confidence
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Confidence is one of James's least-known novels, but its handling of point of view and the ethics of observing other people, its succession of often vividly-evoked settings – Siena, Baden-Baden, New York City, Paris, London – and its fascinating similarities …
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