Christy L Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 1136737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christy L Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS C L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Postmodern Historiography: Politics and the Parallactic Method in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Postmodern Historiography: Politics and the Parallactic Method in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon Christy L. Burns (bio) Abstract In Mason & Dixon, Pynchon develops an important new method for postmodern political insight, introducing a parallactic method that allows him a dialectical representation of “America” as it was in the mid-to-late eighteenth century and as it is now, by various implications. In his use of parallax, Pynchon interweaves a …
Beautiful Labors: Lyricism and Feminist Revisions in Eavan Boland's Poetry
Christy Burns, Beautiful Labors: Lyricism and Feminist Revisions in Eavan Boland's Poetry, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 20, No. 2, Women Writing Across the World (Autumn, 2001), pp. 217-236
Erasure: Alienation, Paranoia, and the Loss of Memory in The X-Files
Christy L. Burns is an associate professor of English at the College of William and Mary. Her book Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce appeared in June 2000. She has published articles on modern and contemporary fiction, and has an article in Discourse on the film Suture and its treatment of race
Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy (review)
Reviewed by: Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy Christy L. Burns Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. xxv + 212 pages. In 1988, Barbara Herrnstein Smith published Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. Intervening in the canon formation debates launched in the 197…
Parody: Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern
Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault
A persistent criticism of theory in general and of Foucault in particular is that no positive social or ethical consequences result from the practice of theory. Critics from all points on the political spectrum seem to agree on this point. Daniel O'Hara here demonstrates the social uses of interpretation by analyzing the later writings of Foucault and the careers of critics in relation to Foucault's work, including Derrida, Kristeva, Said, Rorty,…
Nabokov's Otherworld
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Nabokov's Otherworld
Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault
A persistent criticism of theory in general and of Foucault in particular is that no positive social or ethical consequences result from the practice of theory. Critics from all points on the political spectrum seem to agree on this point. Daniel O'Hara here demonstrates the social uses of interpretation by analyzing the later writings of Foucault and the careers of critics in relation to Foucault's work, including Derrida, Kristeva, Said, Rorty,…
Parody: Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern
Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy (review)
Reviewed by: Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy Christy L. Burns Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. xxv + 212 pages. In 1988, Barbara Herrnstein Smith published Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. Intervening in the canon formation debates launched in the 197…
Beautiful Labors: Lyricism and Feminist Revisions in Eavan Boland's Poetry
Christy Burns, Beautiful Labors: Lyricism and Feminist Revisions in Eavan Boland's Poetry, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 20, No. 2, Women Writing Across the World (Autumn, 2001), pp. 217-236
Erasure: Alienation, Paranoia, and the Loss of Memory in The X-Files
Christy L. Burns is an associate professor of English at the College of William and Mary. Her book Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce appeared in June 2000. She has published articles on modern and contemporary fiction, and has an article in Discourse on the film Suture and its treatment of race
Postmodern Historiography: Politics and the Parallactic Method in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Postmodern Historiography: Politics and the Parallactic Method in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon Christy L. Burns (bio) Abstract In Mason & Dixon, Pynchon develops an important new method for postmodern political insight, introducing a parallactic method that allows him a dialectical representation of “America” as it was in the mid-to-late eighteenth century and as it is now, by various implications. In his use of parallax, Pynchon interweaves a …
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