Ortwin De Graef
Biographic Data
| ID | 1214476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ortwin De Graef |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ortwin |
| FAMILY NAME | De Graef |
| SIGNATURE | DE GRAEF O |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2183-7761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Romanticism in the Age of World Wars
status: Published
The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope
Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first century Since the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has become a central figure in the critical understanding of Victorian literature. By bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays involves the reader in new approaches to Trollope’s work. The contributors to this volume hig…
Speculation, Credit, and the Marketplace
status: Published
Virgilian Incarnation
In his memoir A Scholar's Tale, Geoffrey Hartman recognizes the decisive influence of Erich Auerbach, one of his teachers at Yale, on his own early work. Auerbach came to Yale after having spent the Second World War in Istanbul, where he wrote his magisterial Mimesis. That book not only bears the stamp of the war that was then ravaging Europe, the continent whose literary heritage he aimed to preserve in Mimesis, but also of a second trauma: the …
Dispersal and redemption
Congestion of the Brain in an Age of Unpoetrylessness
“Kan kunst de wereld redden?” When Antwerp was cultural capital of Europe in 1993, this question — “Can art save the world?” — was adopted as one of the city's official slogans, prompting the mayor at the time, Bob Cools, to offer his contribution to an answer by way of a quotation: “Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.” As his source Cools mentioned Literature and Dogma , but in order to register accurately th…
Serenity in Crisis
A polymath well versed in European literature and philosophy, one of the founders of deconstruction, and a widely respected teacher, Paul de Man brought unprecedented attention and acclaim to the so-called Yale Critics. His fame was at a zenith when he died suddenly in 1983. A few years later, Ortwin de Graef found the de Man had written for the collaborationist press during the Nazi occupation, a discovery that ignited an international reassessm…
Serenity in Crisis
Paul de Man's Wanderjahre
The Eye of the Text
Edgar Allan Poe: this essay addresses death-or, more accurately, that death which is almost never absent in his writings. What, and where, is the presence of death in the literary text? Is there literature worthy of the name that is not irrevocably marked by death? In order to approach these problems, however obliquely, I propose to read two stories Poe was, by his own account, very fond of: Ligeia and The Man that was Used Up.1 For reasons that …
The Eye of the Text
Edgar Allan Poe: this essay addresses death-or, more accurately, that death which is almost never absent in his writings. What, and where, is the presence of death in the literary text? Is there literature worthy of the name that is not irrevocably marked by death? In order to approach these problems, however obliquely, I propose to read two stories Poe was, by his own account, very fond of: Ligeia and The Man that was Used Up.1 For reasons that …
Paul de Man's Wanderjahre
Serenity in Crisis
Serenity in Crisis
A polymath well versed in European literature and philosophy, one of the founders of deconstruction, and a widely respected teacher, Paul de Man brought unprecedented attention and acclaim to the so-called Yale Critics. His fame was at a zenith when he died suddenly in 1983. A few years later, Ortwin de Graef found the de Man had written for the collaborationist press during the Nazi occupation, a discovery that ignited an international reassessm…
Congestion of the Brain in an Age of Unpoetrylessness
“Kan kunst de wereld redden?” When Antwerp was cultural capital of Europe in 1993, this question — “Can art save the world?” — was adopted as one of the city's official slogans, prompting the mayor at the time, Bob Cools, to offer his contribution to an answer by way of a quotation: “Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.” As his source Cools mentioned Literature and Dogma , but in order to register accurately th…
Dispersal and redemption
Virgilian Incarnation
In his memoir A Scholar's Tale, Geoffrey Hartman recognizes the decisive influence of Erich Auerbach, one of his teachers at Yale, on his own early work. Auerbach came to Yale after having spent the Second World War in Istanbul, where he wrote his magisterial Mimesis. That book not only bears the stamp of the war that was then ravaging Europe, the continent whose literary heritage he aimed to preserve in Mimesis, but also of a second trauma: the …
Speculation, Credit, and the Marketplace
status: Published
The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope
Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first century Since the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has become a central figure in the critical understanding of Victorian literature. By bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays involves the reader in new approaches to Trollope’s work. The contributors to this volume hig…
Romanticism in the Age of World Wars
status: Published
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