John Attridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Attridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Attridge |
| SIGNATURE | ATTRIDGE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Typical Roundness: Fictional Character and the Culture Concept in Howards End
This essay examines the relationship between the idea of national character—a historically influential vocabulary for thinking about national identity—and character in fiction. Taking Howards End as its case study, the article argues that E. M. Forster's condition-of-England novel draws on an emergent ethnographic concept of culture in order to model the intersection between particular individuals and the social whole. In this respect, the articl…
Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in The Ambassadors and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
A capacity for vicarious experience is one of Lambert Strether's most celebrated characteristics, apparent not only in his famous injunction to Little Bilham to “live all you can,” but also in his more general attitude toward Chad Newsome's life in Paris, which he proposes, at one point, to regard as a substitute for his own youth. This incorrigible tendency to live his life through the experiences of others might seem to conflict with the goals …
Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception
Contents: Introduction: modernism, trust and deception, John Attridge Part 1 Reading and Trust: Modern proliferation, modernist trust, Leonard Diepeveen Trusting personality: modernist memoir and its audience, Rod Rosenquist Credulous readers: H.D. and psychic-research work, Suzanne Hobson. Part 2 After Sincerity: Subterranean folkway blues: Ralph Ellisona (TM)s mythology of deception, Paul Sheehan Counterfeit masterpieces: Gide, Joyce and intert…
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I, Britain and Ireland 1880–1955
Steadily and Whole: Ford Madox Ford and Modernist Sociology
Social fragmentation and cultural incoherence are conventionally regarded as trademark modernist themes, among the defining processes of modernity. Using Matthew Arnold as a touchstone, this paper frames the anxiety about wholeness as a Victorian inheritance, and anchors the discussion of fragmentation concretely in two early twentieth-century attempts to imagine society: Ford Madox Ford's social criticism and the first meetings of the London Soc…
Detourism: Murray Bail’s Photographic Fiction
Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception
Contents: Introduction: modernism, trust and deception, John Attridge Part 1 Reading and Trust: Modern proliferation, modernist trust, Leonard Diepeveen Trusting personality: modernist memoir and its audience, Rod Rosenquist Credulous readers: H.D. and psychic-research work, Suzanne Hobson. Part 2 After Sincerity: Subterranean folkway blues: Ralph Ellisona (TM)s mythology of deception, Paul Sheehan Counterfeit masterpieces: Gide, Joyce and intert…
Detourism: Murray Bail’s Photographic Fiction
Steadily and Whole: Ford Madox Ford and Modernist Sociology
Social fragmentation and cultural incoherence are conventionally regarded as trademark modernist themes, among the defining processes of modernity. Using Matthew Arnold as a touchstone, this paper frames the anxiety about wholeness as a Victorian inheritance, and anchors the discussion of fragmentation concretely in two early twentieth-century attempts to imagine society: Ford Madox Ford's social criticism and the first meetings of the London Soc…
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I, Britain and Ireland 1880–1955
Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception
Contents: Introduction: modernism, trust and deception, John Attridge Part 1 Reading and Trust: Modern proliferation, modernist trust, Leonard Diepeveen Trusting personality: modernist memoir and its audience, Rod Rosenquist Credulous readers: H.D. and psychic-research work, Suzanne Hobson. Part 2 After Sincerity: Subterranean folkway blues: Ralph Ellisona (TM)s mythology of deception, Paul Sheehan Counterfeit masterpieces: Gide, Joyce and intert…
Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in The Ambassadors and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
A capacity for vicarious experience is one of Lambert Strether's most celebrated characteristics, apparent not only in his famous injunction to Little Bilham to “live all you can,” but also in his more general attitude toward Chad Newsome's life in Paris, which he proposes, at one point, to regard as a substitute for his own youth. This incorrigible tendency to live his life through the experiences of others might seem to conflict with the goals …
Typical Roundness: Fictional Character and the Culture Concept in Howards End
This essay examines the relationship between the idea of national character—a historically influential vocabulary for thinking about national identity—and character in fiction. Taking Howards End as its case study, the article argues that E. M. Forster's condition-of-England novel draws on an emergent ethnographic concept of culture in order to model the intersection between particular individuals and the social whole. In this respect, the articl…
Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)