Julian Murphet
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Murphet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphet |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHET J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Troubling Immediacy in Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis's novel The Shards (2023) continues his now familiar metafictional, postironic, quasi-autobiographical trawl through a parallel universe of his own past. But something has changed. Finally “coming out” in his own name, Ellis has also slackened his rigorous commitments to stylistic precision to the point of near unrecognizability and produced a bloated, overwritten, generically schizophrenic bad book. Why? This article argues tha…
Modern Character
This book considers a range of literary and dramatic texts written between 1888 and 1905, showcasing the extraordinary efforts of various writers to rethink and reinvent ‘human character’ at this time. Arguing that many of the most significant breakthroughs happened in the small theatres of Europe in the 1890s, the first half demonstrates how the countervailing currents of Naturalism and Symbolism created a vortex in which time-honoured truisms a…
Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century
Provides a comprehensive survey of twentieth-century prison writing from around the world Analyses texts from the UK, USA, Australia, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Ireland, Germany, and the USSR Texts by male and female writers considered with structural balance Approaches texts chronologically within an historical sequence of social and institutional changes Brings a specifically literary approach to material generally approached sociologically an…
The Marcusian moment
Transferring Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018) aggressively foregrounds a term from the discourse of psychoanalysis, now a relic of twentieth-century philosophical and psychological thought, with which to negotiate a sequence of historical problems specific to its articulation as a remake (adaptation or reimagining) of a 1977 giallo by Dario Argento. The concept is “transference”. Transference traverses the whole semantic field of this film text, offering a h…
Astonied
This essay draws attention to a lyric tendency that bypassed the human subject altogether. Writing as the losses of World War Two reached unprecedented historical highs, the poet Robinson Jeffers counselled a quietist retreat into ‘inhumanism’, the ‘philosophical shifting of emphasis of man to not-man’. Jeffers – I argue – looked back to earlier modernists to emphasise the mineral world and to celebrate its resistance to organic metaphors; its pr…
Communism and Poetry
E.L. Doctorow
S teven C onnor from D own U nder
No Alternative
Vivek Chibber’s new book has stirred up a good amount of controversy and passionate position-taking in recent months. This review probes its avowedly Marxist critique of subaltern studies in order to test the validity of some of its central claims and to offer a provisional appraisal of its political implications. A related question is what such a critique might have to offer literary studies, postcolonial or otherwise
Events listening to their own tremors
Starting from the point that Louis Zukofsky and Objectivism are already anachronisms in literary history, the essay tracks some of the consequences of that for a materialist reading of the poems, especially the epic “A”. If an epic is a poem that “includes history” (Pound), then there are various ways in which that inclusion can be construed. Zukofsky, who sets out with a Poundian technique of temporal juxtaposition within a compositional field, …
The Mole and the Multiple
In this essay, the return of character as a literary-critical concept is explored for what it tells us about the intricate relations between the one and the multiple in the long modern period. The contemporary resurgence of character studies stops short at the dawn of the twentieth century; and for good reason. It is with the modern novel that literary character begins to undergo, and rapidly develops, its most radical encounter with multiplicity…
Beckett's televisual modernism
Pitiable or Political Animals
Pitiable or Political Animals? Julian Murphet (bio) The first and decisive question will rather be to know whether animals can suffer. —Derrida, 396 I. On the Suffering of Animals As first questions go, this one (actually posed by Jeremy Bentham) seems answered in advance, not only by the terminal emphasis with which Derrida stamps it, but by the felt preponderance today of a public pity for what is here posed only in the subjunctive. It is a pit…
Character and Event
Character and Event Julian Murphet University of Sydney Since Aristotle, "character" has tended to be thought in dialectical conjunction with its antipode, "plot." But these two moments – the one allegorizing the theological horizon of predestination and Totality, the other standing in for subjective particularity and the gesture of free will – are ceaselessly reabsorbed into one another in the phenomenology of reading, as what had at first appea…
Cultural Studies and Alain Badiou
Literature and Visual Technologies
This is the first major collection of essays specifically to address the impact of visual technologies on the production of literature in the twentieth-century. Literature and Visual Technologies inve
Identity and difference in Anna Deavere Smith's performance art
(1998). Identity and difference in Anna Deavere Smith's performance art. Wasafiri: Vol. 13, No. 27, pp. 29-33
Film noir and the racial unconscious
Journal Article Film noir and the racial unconscious Julian Murphet Julian Murphet Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 22–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.1.22 Published: 01 March 1998
Film noir and the racial unconscious
Journal Article Film noir and the racial unconscious Julian Murphet Julian Murphet Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 22–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.1.22 Published: 01 March 1998
No Alternative
Vivek Chibber’s new book has stirred up a good amount of controversy and passionate position-taking in recent months. This review probes its avowedly Marxist critique of subaltern studies in order to test the validity of some of its central claims and to offer a provisional appraisal of its political implications. A related question is what such a critique might have to offer literary studies, postcolonial or otherwise
Identity and difference in Anna Deavere Smith's performance art
(1998). Identity and difference in Anna Deavere Smith's performance art. Wasafiri: Vol. 13, No. 27, pp. 29-33
Film noir and the racial unconscious
Journal Article Film noir and the racial unconscious Julian Murphet Julian Murphet Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 22–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.1.22 Published: 01 March 1998
Literature and Visual Technologies
This is the first major collection of essays specifically to address the impact of visual technologies on the production of literature in the twentieth-century. Literature and Visual Technologies inve
Cultural Studies and Alain Badiou
Character and Event
Character and Event Julian Murphet University of Sydney Since Aristotle, "character" has tended to be thought in dialectical conjunction with its antipode, "plot." But these two moments – the one allegorizing the theological horizon of predestination and Totality, the other standing in for subjective particularity and the gesture of free will – are ceaselessly reabsorbed into one another in the phenomenology of reading, as what had at first appea…
Pitiable or Political Animals
Pitiable or Political Animals? Julian Murphet (bio) The first and decisive question will rather be to know whether animals can suffer. —Derrida, 396 I. On the Suffering of Animals As first questions go, this one (actually posed by Jeremy Bentham) seems answered in advance, not only by the terminal emphasis with which Derrida stamps it, but by the felt preponderance today of a public pity for what is here posed only in the subjunctive. It is a pit…
Beckett's televisual modernism
The Mole and the Multiple
In this essay, the return of character as a literary-critical concept is explored for what it tells us about the intricate relations between the one and the multiple in the long modern period. The contemporary resurgence of character studies stops short at the dawn of the twentieth century; and for good reason. It is with the modern novel that literary character begins to undergo, and rapidly develops, its most radical encounter with multiplicity…
Events listening to their own tremors
Starting from the point that Louis Zukofsky and Objectivism are already anachronisms in literary history, the essay tracks some of the consequences of that for a materialist reading of the poems, especially the epic “A”. If an epic is a poem that “includes history” (Pound), then there are various ways in which that inclusion can be construed. Zukofsky, who sets out with a Poundian technique of temporal juxtaposition within a compositional field, …
S teven C onnor from D own U nder
No Alternative
Vivek Chibber’s new book has stirred up a good amount of controversy and passionate position-taking in recent months. This review probes its avowedly Marxist critique of subaltern studies in order to test the validity of some of its central claims and to offer a provisional appraisal of its political implications. A related question is what such a critique might have to offer literary studies, postcolonial or otherwise
Communism and Poetry
E.L. Doctorow
Astonied
This essay draws attention to a lyric tendency that bypassed the human subject altogether. Writing as the losses of World War Two reached unprecedented historical highs, the poet Robinson Jeffers counselled a quietist retreat into ‘inhumanism’, the ‘philosophical shifting of emphasis of man to not-man’. Jeffers – I argue – looked back to earlier modernists to emphasise the mineral world and to celebrate its resistance to organic metaphors; its pr…
Transferring Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018) aggressively foregrounds a term from the discourse of psychoanalysis, now a relic of twentieth-century philosophical and psychological thought, with which to negotiate a sequence of historical problems specific to its articulation as a remake (adaptation or reimagining) of a 1977 giallo by Dario Argento. The concept is “transference”. Transference traverses the whole semantic field of this film text, offering a h…
Modern Character
This book considers a range of literary and dramatic texts written between 1888 and 1905, showcasing the extraordinary efforts of various writers to rethink and reinvent ‘human character’ at this time. Arguing that many of the most significant breakthroughs happened in the small theatres of Europe in the 1890s, the first half demonstrates how the countervailing currents of Naturalism and Symbolism created a vortex in which time-honoured truisms a…
Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century
Provides a comprehensive survey of twentieth-century prison writing from around the world Analyses texts from the UK, USA, Australia, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Ireland, Germany, and the USSR Texts by male and female writers considered with structural balance Approaches texts chronologically within an historical sequence of social and institutional changes Brings a specifically literary approach to material generally approached sociologically an…
The Marcusian moment
Troubling Immediacy in Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis's novel The Shards (2023) continues his now familiar metafictional, postironic, quasi-autobiographical trawl through a parallel universe of his own past. But something has changed. Finally “coming out” in his own name, Ellis has also slackened his rigorous commitments to stylistic precision to the point of near unrecognizability and produced a bloated, overwritten, generically schizophrenic bad book. Why? This article argues tha…
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