Simon During
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139985 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon During |
| NOMBRES | Simon |
| APELLIDO | During |
| FIRMA | DURING S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2182-0668 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Against pleonexia
Erich Auerbach’s essay on world literature, written in the early postwar period, has become central to our understanding of the field. This essay contextualizes Auerbach on world literature by approaching it through his larger project, which it thinks about in relation to scholars rarely considered in this context. These scholars are the French literary historians and critics Hippolyte Taine and Remy de Gourmont, and the German historical sociolo…
The T.S. Eliot problem
This essay argues that the conservative Anglican social critque that T.S. Eliot developed after his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism circa 1927 was of a piece with his earlier literary criticism and theory as collected in The Sacred Wood (1920). In doing so, the essay contextualises both the literary criticism and the socal critique, offering a new account of how Eliot's early literary criticism was related to the analytic philosophy being develop…
Humanities Theory
Humanities Theory offers a new framework for understanding the place of the humanities in the culture at large and as a transdisciplinary project with identifiable aims, practices, and theoretical frameworks. Taking a long historical view, Simon During analyses the cultural and intellectual history of the humanities, both within and outside the academy, arguing for a rich “humanities world” characterized by amateur and scholarly forms. Focusing o…
Humanities Theory
Edward Said and the Western Humanities
This essay offers a conspectus of Said's work as a whole. It focuses on why Said chose four writers in particular to lionize and engage with. These writers are Jonathan Swift, Giambattista Vico, Joseph Conrad, and Erich Auerbach, and what they share is their conservatism. Why then did Said, a pioneering critic of empire, place these conservative writers in his private canon? The reason, the essay argues, is that Said sensed the structural connect…
Elegizing Cultural Capital
This article considers the legacy and value of John Guillory's literary sociology in providing a rationale for literary studies today. Bringing the work of Pierre Bourdieu to bear on the canon wars of the 1980s and 1990s, Guillory laid bare the mechanisms of canon formation within the institution of the school. While the influence of his argument is still perceptible in scholarly treatments of literary institutions, though, his more affirmative c…
Exciting Discipline
MAINLY IDENTIFIED WITH THE IDEAS and methods they produce, but ideas and methods can only be part of their overall constitution.Embedded in various kinds of institution, focussing on objects and topics that continually mutate, disciplines also professionalise and reproduce themselves by creating barriers to entry and hierarchising students.They legitimate themselves by ascribing particular cultural and social functions to themselves.They fracture…
Towards a General Secularism
The numerous interpretations and evaluations of 1968 that have been developed over the past half-century can arguably be divided into two. On one side, there are those accounts that regard 1968 as the threshold across which an older form of modernity passed to become what student revolutionaries of the period began to call late capitalism; and although late capitalism itself quickly became a fissured thing, this view has become orthodox. On the o…
Foucault and Literature
The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural materialism' that currently dominate international literary studies. Simon During provides a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. …
Out of Europe
When Goethe coined the phrase ‘world literature’, he did so after reading a translation of a relatively obscure seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Hao Kiou Choaan. That novel had come to Europe’s attention via an English translation which had been edited and published by the English clergyman Thomas Percy in 1761, before being translated in turn into French, German and Dutch. As such, Hao Kiou Choaan was one of the earliest of a series of edition…
The Global South and internationalism
This essay argues that the concept ‘Global South’ belongs to the historical moment when colonialism merged into internationalism. Against that background, it begins to rethink internationalism and international relations from a postcolonial point of view. Drawing on a variegated group of theorists (Carl Schmitt, Quinn Slobodian, Pankaj Mishra) it further makes the case that the ‘Global South’ paradigm has to be supplemented by analysis that does …
Kerala
The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer. Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from be…
Mansfield Park and Political Theology
This essay examines Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park in the light of classical understandings of political theology. It does so by placing the novel in its Anglican and Erastian contexts as well as by showing that it belongs to a lineage of English prose fiction, whose famous names are Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, which also had theopolitical interests
Is absolute secularity conceivable
This paper critically examines the prospects for thoroughly secular thought. It does so in relation to recent theories of secularization (and especially Charles Taylor’s and Hans Blumenberg’s) as well as by attending to two very different intellectual projects, one mounted by Jeremy Bentham (in particular his concept of felicity or happiness), the other by Michael Oakeshott. It argues that Bentham’s utilitarian account of happiness depends on a C…
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
Coleridge and the Lay Sermon
This essay, a contribution to the study of secularisation, explores conditions under which a new genre, the lay sermon, emerged early in the nineteenth century. It does so through a reading of the texts that inaugurate the genre, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lay Sermons (1817). In particular, the essay examines Coleridge’s Lay Sermons’ historical context, that is, to the beginnings of liberal politics. And it also pays attention to Coleridge’s relat…
Choosing Precarity
This essay argues that global neo-liberalism has undercut the analytic power of the concept of the ‘subaltern’. It has instead produced a new category: the precariat. It makes this case first by examining Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, which helped define the subaltern, and then by showing that the aftermath of the 1968 revolutions slowly overturned the problematic installed by Levi and the Subaltern Studies group. It ends by offering an a…
From the Subaltern to the Precariat
Precarity is a double condition. On the one hand, it denotes a socioeconomic position of insecurity and poverty, often particularly associated with statelessness. On the other, as is here argued, it denotes an anthropological or existential condition, one for which human beings are constitutionally unable to fully ground themselves in the world and for that reason are open both to anxiety and to openness and risk. This essay argues that these two…
Stuart Hall
Foucault and Literature
Patrick White, Saul Bellow and the Problem of Literary Value
â Patrick Whiteâ s fiction has been ambivalently received. For all its celebration, dissenters continue to insist on a gap between its reputation and its actual achievements. In this essay, I want to take a step towards strengthening our assessment of it through an analysis that I hope may also illuminate possibilities for literary judgement more widely. I will limit myself to a single novel, The Solid Mandala (1968), and to using a received if s…
Empire's Present
This essay responds to Robert Young and Dipesh Chakrabary's essays on postcolonialism both recently published by NLH . It suggests that, on the one side, Young overestimates the continuing relevance of the postcolonialism paradigm, while, on the other, Chakrabarty overestimates the degree to which anthropogenic global warming constitutes a break in world history. To make its case it weighs the current applicability of "benefit of empire" and pro-…
Mimic Toil
Like other genres that have arrived on the historical scene relatively recently, the historical reenactment is a more complex cultural form than its status would lead us to suppose. Indeed, the category 'historical reenactment' covers a variety of subgenres including: (1) the organized recreational imitation of a historical event by hobbyists; (2) the reproduction of a historical genre (e.g., the medieval tournament) or situation (e.g., a ninetee…
Foucault and Literature
The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural materialism' that currently dominate international literary studies. Simon During provides a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. …
Popular Culture on a Global Scale
Postcolonialism and globalisation
(1998). Postcolonialism and globalisation: A dialectical relation after all? Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 31-47
Choosing Precarity
This essay argues that global neo-liberalism has undercut the analytic power of the concept of the ‘subaltern’. It has instead produced a new category: the precariat. It makes this case first by examining Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, which helped define the subaltern, and then by showing that the aftermath of the 1968 revolutions slowly overturned the problematic installed by Levi and the Subaltern Studies group. It ends by offering an a…
Postcolonialism and Globalization
This article distinguishes between critical and reconciliatory postcolonialisms, arguing that the former seeks radical alternatives to modernity based on non-Western traditions and lifeways, while the latter works to reconcile colonized peoples to colonialism. It argues further that the category of globalization has, for the most part, superceded that of 'postcolonialism' and that critical postcolonialism needs to be seen not simply as globalizat…
From the Subaltern to the Precariat
Precarity is a double condition. On the one hand, it denotes a socioeconomic position of insecurity and poverty, often particularly associated with statelessness. On the other, as is here argued, it denotes an anthropological or existential condition, one for which human beings are constitutionally unable to fully ground themselves in the world and for that reason are open both to anxiety and to openness and risk. This essay argues that these two…
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
Empire's Present
This essay responds to Robert Young and Dipesh Chakrabary's essays on postcolonialism both recently published by NLH . It suggests that, on the one side, Young overestimates the continuing relevance of the postcolonialism paradigm, while, on the other, Chakrabarty overestimates the degree to which anthropogenic global warming constitutes a break in world history. To make its case it weighs the current applicability of "benefit of empire" and pro-…
Is Cultural Studies a Discipline
This essay is a contribution to the debate around cultural studies’ relation to disciplinarity. It makes the case that that debate has failed fully to take into account global shifts in university management which have meant that the health and reproduction of disciplines is no longer regarded as a key mission for academic administrators outside the circle of elite research universities, most centered in the US. It also provides a summary longue …
The Global South and internationalism
This essay argues that the concept ‘Global South’ belongs to the historical moment when colonialism merged into internationalism. Against that background, it begins to rethink internationalism and international relations from a postcolonial point of view. Drawing on a variegated group of theorists (Carl Schmitt, Quinn Slobodian, Pankaj Mishra) it further makes the case that the ‘Global South’ paradigm has to be supplemented by analysis that does …
Coleridge and the Lay Sermon
This essay, a contribution to the study of secularisation, explores conditions under which a new genre, the lay sermon, emerged early in the nineteenth century. It does so through a reading of the texts that inaugurate the genre, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lay Sermons (1817). In particular, the essay examines Coleridge’s Lay Sermons’ historical context, that is, to the beginnings of liberal politics. And it also pays attention to Coleridge’s relat…
Mimic toil
This article analyses certain of the cultural and social conditions of possibility underpinning the modern historical reenactment. It places these conditions in the second half of the eighteenth century, when a new relationship between the past and present emerged: in effect, the present was then cut off from the past in terms that allowed the past to become the source for various modes of (often increasingly ‘authentic’) mimesis rather than cont…
Socialist ends
This article presents a pre-history of British cultural studies by focusing on a widespread demand for theory within the left between about 1957 and 1965.1 My main interest in the topic is simple e
Feminism and Cultural Studies
New historicism
The Strange Case of Monomania
Research Article| July 01 1988 The Strange Case of Monomania: Patriarchy in Literature, Murder in Middlemarch, Drowning in Daniel Deronda Simon During Simon During Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 23: 86–104. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928567 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email To…
The Strange Case of Monomania
Research Article| July 01 1988 The Strange Case of Monomania: Patriarchy in Literature, Murder in Middlemarch, Drowning in Daniel Deronda Simon During Simon During Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 23: 86–104. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928567 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email To…
Waiting for the post
The concept of “modernity” requires the exclusion of societies and practices deemed pre‐modern. Today, however, the category of the “modern” can be historicized and problematised. Repetitions across, and adjoining folds between, the modern and non‐modern do exist. The expression of enlightened values in the South African liberation struggle provides one example of this, and the chiastic process by which Maori culture has been Europeanised and Wes…
After Death
Writing outside the Book
or over two hundred years most writing has been published in periodicals. Literary history and criticism have not been comfortable with this fact, though they have not completely ignored it. Their anxiety is itself traditional: the book has long been set against the journal in an opposition that helps draw boundaries around literature or polite letters within the mass of print. And of course the canon comes in books today, however it was first pu…
New historicism
The Cultural Studies Reader
Cultural Studies Reader provides an introduction for students of this discipline. It presents a selection of influential and innovative essays in the field by writers such as Barthes, Adorno, Lyotard, Stuart Hall and Gayatri Spivak, with a succinct introduction to each. The book encompasses a wide range of topics, from sport to postmodernism, from museums to supermarkets, from gay writing to rock and roll, and covers every important cultural stud…
Feminism and Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Foucault and Literature
Popular Culture on a Global Scale
Postcolonialism and globalisation
(1998). Postcolonialism and globalisation: A dialectical relation after all? Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 31-47
Cultural Studies Reader
Postcolonialism and Globalization
This article distinguishes between critical and reconciliatory postcolonialisms, arguing that the former seeks radical alternatives to modernity based on non-Western traditions and lifeways, while the latter works to reconcile colonized peoples to colonialism. It argues further that the category of globalization has, for the most part, superceded that of 'postcolonialism' and that critical postcolonialism needs to be seen not simply as globalizat…
Henry James and Me
Editor's Note: This occasional section of MLN is customarily reserved for retrospective, often revisionary comments on critical figures, documents, and issues from the past. The two pieces in this issue are, however, both retrospective and proleptic. In addition to this double rootedness in the past and orientation toward the future, they both also include strong personal, one might say, confessional elements
Modern Enchantments
Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?
Modern Enchantments
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural …
Cultural studies
Is Cultural Studies a Discipline
This essay is a contribution to the debate around cultural studies’ relation to disciplinarity. It makes the case that that debate has failed fully to take into account global shifts in university management which have meant that the health and reproduction of disciplines is no longer regarded as a key mission for academic administrators outside the circle of elite research universities, most centered in the US. It also provides a summary longue …
Les Cultural Studies forment-elles une discipline ? Est-ce important
The number of scholars situating their work within cultural studies for a recent survey in Australia led to the question not so much of cultural studies? disciplinarity as to the issue of disciplinarity per se. And disciplinarity in contemporary academia seems a mode of organisation which only the United States can sustain, including for cultural studies themselves ; otherwise, what structures cultural studies is its relation to its students and …
Mimic toil
This article analyses certain of the cultural and social conditions of possibility underpinning the modern historical reenactment. It places these conditions in the second half of the eighteenth century, when a new relationship between the past and present emerged: in effect, the present was then cut off from the past in terms that allowed the past to become the source for various modes of (often increasingly ‘authentic’) mimesis rather than cont…
Socialist ends
This article presents a pre-history of British cultural studies by focusing on a widespread demand for theory within the left between about 1957 and 1965.1 My main interest in the topic is simple e
Modern Enchantments
Mimic Toil
Like other genres that have arrived on the historical scene relatively recently, the historical reenactment is a more complex cultural form than its status would lead us to suppose. Indeed, the category 'historical reenactment' covers a variety of subgenres including: (1) the organized recreational imitation of a historical event by hobbyists; (2) the reproduction of a historical genre (e.g., the medieval tournament) or situation (e.g., a ninetee…
Cultural Turns
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