Joseph Litvak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1107684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Litvak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Litvak |
| SIGNATURE | LITVAK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seductive
Leo Bersani was an enormously seductive critic, and he frequently wrote about seductiveness, beginning with his first book, Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and Art. This essay focuses on a passage in that book where Bersani discusses Proust's character, the Baron de Charlus, whose seductive orientation toward the world Bersani relates to Charlus's "homosexual talk." This essay considers the fate of seductiveness within Bersani's own career-lo…
Implication's Implications
Review Article| August 01 2021 Implication's Implications Lucey, Michael, Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from Colette to Hervé Guibert (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2019), pp. 344, cloth, $90.00. Joseph Litvak Joseph Litvak Tufts University JOSEPH LITVAK is professor of English at Tufts University. His most recent books are The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (2009) and Ahmed the Philosopher (2014), his trans…
Black comedy and the Bildungsroman: Fran Ross's Oreo
In this essay, I place Fran Ross’s dazzling, unjustly neglected novel, Oreo, at the centre of contemporary discussions of race, gender, and the politics of laughter in the racist, misogynistic, and homophobic regime that includes but that is not limited to the post-Obama United States. This apparently anachronistic move elaborates on the insight of the few critics who have attended to Ross’s novel and who, accounting for its failure to win an aud…
Two Much
Critics of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) have attended to the film's motifs of doubling, pairing, and reversal. We, however, approach Strangers on a Train as an interrogation of the couple form, as a violently comic challenge to its normative regulation of the social order. If the film is obsessed with the number two, it is equally obsessed with all the ways in which this even number can prove to be odd or strange or queer, as ex…
Unctuous
Research Article| December 01 2012 Unctuous: Resentment in David Copperfield Joseph Litvak Joseph Litvak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 127–150. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.2.0127 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Litvak; Unctuous: Resentment in David Copperfield. Qui Parle 1 December 2012; 20 (2): 127–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quipa…
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Cultural study of Cold War film and theater that considers how Jewish assimilation into American culture during the blacklist period was characterized by a demand to be a stoolpigeon, or to become an informer.
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC's…
Glad to Be Unhappy
Research Article| July 01 2007 Glad to Be Unhappy Joseph Litvak Joseph Litvak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 523–531. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Litvak; Glad to Be Unhappy. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2007; 106 (3): 523–531. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0038…
Adorno Now
It's a bit of a stretch, in the context of this forum, to choose Theodor Adorno's Notes to Literature. The two volumes of Shierry Weber Nicholsen's translation were published in 1991 and 1992 respectively--just barely fitting into the category of works published in the last five or ten years. While the most recent of the essays collected in these two volumes date from the sixties, some, qualifying as juvenilia, were written as long ago as the ear…
Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel
The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park
Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC's…
Black comedy and the Bildungsroman: Fran Ross's Oreo
In this essay, I place Fran Ross’s dazzling, unjustly neglected novel, Oreo, at the centre of contemporary discussions of race, gender, and the politics of laughter in the racist, misogynistic, and homophobic regime that includes but that is not limited to the post-Obama United States. This apparently anachronistic move elaborates on the insight of the few critics who have attended to Ross’s novel and who, accounting for its failure to win an aud…
Adorno Now
It's a bit of a stretch, in the context of this forum, to choose Theodor Adorno's Notes to Literature. The two volumes of Shierry Weber Nicholsen's translation were published in 1991 and 1992 respectively--just barely fitting into the category of works published in the last five or ten years. While the most recent of the essays collected in these two volumes date from the sixties, some, qualifying as juvenilia, were written as long ago as the ear…
The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park
Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel
Adorno Now
It's a bit of a stretch, in the context of this forum, to choose Theodor Adorno's Notes to Literature. The two volumes of Shierry Weber Nicholsen's translation were published in 1991 and 1992 respectively--just barely fitting into the category of works published in the last five or ten years. While the most recent of the essays collected in these two volumes date from the sixties, some, qualifying as juvenilia, were written as long ago as the ear…
Glad to Be Unhappy
Research Article| July 01 2007 Glad to Be Unhappy Joseph Litvak Joseph Litvak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 523–531. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Litvak; Glad to Be Unhappy. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2007; 106 (3): 523–531. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0038…
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Cultural study of Cold War film and theater that considers how Jewish assimilation into American culture during the blacklist period was characterized by a demand to be a stoolpigeon, or to become an informer.
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC's…
Unctuous
Research Article| December 01 2012 Unctuous: Resentment in David Copperfield Joseph Litvak Joseph Litvak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 127–150. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.2.0127 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Litvak; Unctuous: Resentment in David Copperfield. Qui Parle 1 December 2012; 20 (2): 127–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quipa…
Two Much
Critics of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) have attended to the film's motifs of doubling, pairing, and reversal. We, however, approach Strangers on a Train as an interrogation of the couple form, as a violently comic challenge to its normative regulation of the social order. If the film is obsessed with the number two, it is equally obsessed with all the ways in which this even number can prove to be odd or strange or queer, as ex…
Black comedy and the Bildungsroman: Fran Ross's Oreo
In this essay, I place Fran Ross’s dazzling, unjustly neglected novel, Oreo, at the centre of contemporary discussions of race, gender, and the politics of laughter in the racist, misogynistic, and homophobic regime that includes but that is not limited to the post-Obama United States. This apparently anachronistic move elaborates on the insight of the few critics who have attended to Ross’s novel and who, accounting for its failure to win an aud…
Implication's Implications
Review Article| August 01 2021 Implication's Implications Lucey, Michael, Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from Colette to Hervé Guibert (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2019), pp. 344, cloth, $90.00. Joseph Litvak Joseph Litvak Tufts University JOSEPH LITVAK is professor of English at Tufts University. His most recent books are The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (2009) and Ahmed the Philosopher (2014), his trans…
Seductive
Leo Bersani was an enormously seductive critic, and he frequently wrote about seductiveness, beginning with his first book, Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and Art. This essay focuses on a passage in that book where Bersani discusses Proust's character, the Baron de Charlus, whose seductive orientation toward the world Bersani relates to Charlus's "homosexual talk." This essay considers the fate of seductiveness within Bersani's own career-lo…
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