Gerald L Bruns
Biographic Data
| ID | 275398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald L Bruns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruns |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNS G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hölderlin, Celan, and the “Experience with Language”
Hölderlin, Celan, and the “Experience with Language” Gerald L. Bruns (bio) Ich habe bei Lucile der Dichtung zu begegnen geglaubt, und Lucile nimmt Sprache als Gestalt und Richtung und Atem wahr.... —Paul Celan, “Der Meridian”1 I first began reading Friedrich Hölderlin’s work more than half a century ago as part of an effort to understand the complexities (or vagaries) of Martin Heidegger’s conception of poetry, particularly its apparent split bet…
Paratactics (Pataquerics) of the Ordinary: The Course of the Comic in Charles Bernstein's Poetry
This essay attempts to give a fairly comprehensive account of what Charles Bernstein calls his “Art and Practice of the Ordinary,” with particular attention to his poetics of the (stand-up) comic and especially to the complex changes that this poetics undergoes in his later works, Girly Man (2006), with its responses to the events of September 11, 2001, and Recalculating (2013), which is everywhere shadowed by the death in 2008 of his daughter, E…
Metastatic lyricism: John Wilkinson's poetry and poetics
This essay is an attempt to resolve an apparent contradiction between the poetry and the poetics of the Cambridge Poet John Wilkinson, namely how his apparently paratactic (or ‘schizophrenic’) prosody that treats words as material objects in spatial juxtaposition squares with his effort to conceptualize the lyric as an event – an evanescent series of echoes (‘metastases’) whose task is to ‘eventuate reality time and again’. The essay focuses its …
An Archeology of Fragments
This is a short (fragmentary) history of fragmentary writing from the German Romantics (F. W. Schlegel, Friedrich Hölderlin) to modern and contemporary concrete or visual poetry. Such writing is (often deliberately) a critique of the logic of subsumption that tries to assimilate whatever is singular and irreducible into totalities of various categorical or systematic sorts. Arguably, the fragment (parataxis) is the distinctive feature of literary…
Caroline Bergvall: The Cat & the Ampersand
Research Article| March 01 2012 Caroline Bergvall: The Cat & the Ampersand Gerald Bruns Gerald Bruns University of Notre Dame [email protected] Gerald L. Bruns is the William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book is What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press, 2012). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English …
What are poets for: An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise
“Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise?” Gerald Bruns (bio) Ein Zeichen Kämmt es zusammen zur Antwort auf eine grübelnde Felskunst. A sign combs it together to answer a brooding rockart —Paul Celan, “Mit mikrolithen gespickte” 1. The Ghost of Aristotle In recent years there has been a good deal of important work on the relation between poetry and ethics.1 Not surprisingly, one conclusion to be drawn from this material is that the relation between…
On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly
Human life, distinct from juridical existence, existing as it does on a globe isolated in celestial space, from night to day and from one country to another-human life cannot in any way be limited to the closed systems assigned to it by reasonable conceptions.The immense travail of recklessness, discharge, and upheaval that constitutes life could be expressed by stating that life starts with the deficit of these systems; at least what it allows i…
Becoming-Animal (Some Simple Ways)
This essay is an attempt to elucidate the concept of "becoming-animal" that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari develop in a number of their writings. Basically "becoming-animal" is a movement in which a subject no longer occupies a realm of stability but rather is folded into a nomadic mode of existence in which one is always an anomaly, that is, inaccessible to any form of definition. It is a movement from body to flesh, where the one is a figure…
Maurice Blanchot
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become majo…
The material of poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics
Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Gerald L. Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied poets as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Steve McCaffery, and Francis Ponge to argue for three seemingly competing points. First, poetry is made of language but is not a use of…
Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric
Wayne A. Rebhorn, ed. Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. x + 322 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 0-8014-8206-2. - Marijke Spies. Rhetoric, Rhetoricians, and Poetics Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999. 169 pp. FF 39.50. ISBN: 90-5356-400-4. - Volume 55 Issue 2
Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English
Judith H. Anderson. Words that Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xi + 338 pp. $39.50. ISBN: 0-8047-2631-0. - Paula Blank. Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. viii + 211 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-415-13779-9. - Volume 51 Issue 4
Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy
As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it has been so influential. In the first comprehensive study of this important French writer to appear in English, Gerald Bruns ties Blanchot's writings to each other and to the works of his contempor…
Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings
Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings
Reply to Crewe and Conant
What Is Tradition
It might be as well to ask Gadamer whose and what tradition he has in mind. For his theory holds only on the enormous assumption that there is indeed a single mainstream tradition; that all valid works participate in it; that history forms an unbroken continuum, free of decisive rupture, conflict, and contradiction; and that the prejudices which we (who?) have inherited from the tradition are to be cher
Stanley Cavell's Shakespeare
Writing on Ashes: Heidegger Fort Derrida
The Reception of Heidegger's Thought in American Literary Criticism
Secrecy and Silence in Interpretation
Structuralism, Deconstruction, and Hermeneutics
Loose Talk about Religion from William James
Becoming-Animal (Some Simple Ways)
This essay is an attempt to elucidate the concept of "becoming-animal" that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari develop in a number of their writings. Basically "becoming-animal" is a movement in which a subject no longer occupies a realm of stability but rather is folded into a nomadic mode of existence in which one is always an anomaly, that is, inaccessible to any form of definition. It is a movement from body to flesh, where the one is a figure…
Canon and Power in the Hebrew Scriptures
What Is Tradition
It might be as well to ask Gadamer whose and what tradition he has in mind. For his theory holds only on the enormous assumption that there is indeed a single mainstream tradition; that all valid works participate in it; that history forms an unbroken continuum, free of decisive rupture, conflict, and contradiction; and that the prejudices which we (who?) have inherited from the tradition are to be cher
Stanley Cavell's Shakespeare
Loose Talk about Religion from William James
Intention, Authority, and Meaning
The Obscurity of Modern Poetry
Poetry as Reality: The Orpheus Myth and its Modern Counterparts
In this paper I want to consider, from an historical point of view, the idea that poetry is not simply a form of signification but an activity which, by providing man with a world, makes signification possible. This activity, as Albert Hofstadter describes it in connection with Croce, is genuinely creative, for in it man's world and self are originated and maintained, not found already finished.' For the origin of this idea we may look to the Orp…
The Irony of Nature: Tennyson's "Idylls" and the Problem of Culture
Gerald L. Bruns, The Irony of Nature: Tennyson's "Idylls" and the Problem of Culture, The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 5, Papers of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Number 2. Criticism and Culture (1972), pp. 38-45
Modern poetry and the idea of language: A Critical and Historical Study
Allegory and Satire: A Rhetorical Meditation
Exemple d'une critique rhetorique considerant l'allegorie et la satire comme les figures de deux attitudes distinctes face au voile des mots ou deux manieres de l'evaluer. L'allegorie: elle cache, comme le rideau qui nous protege, de la lumiere aveuglante. Le langage nous protege de ce qui n'est pas nomme. Cacher equivaut a decevoir pour le satiriste. Les nominations du satiriste sont des maledictions, renvoient a l'obscurite. Rapport entre alleg…
[The Eminent Text and Its Truth]: Responses and Discussion
Gerald Graff, Gerald L. Bruns, Tom Conley, Donald G. Marshall, [The Eminent Text and Its Truth]: Responses and Discussion, The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 11-23
A Literary Man's Guide to the Discourse on Method (1637)
The starting-point or beginning of Cartesian philosophy is, of course, the celebrated cogito ergo sum; or, more accurately, the cogito is Descartes' philosophical starting-point, but it is not exactly the beginning of his philosophy, and still less is it the beginning of his (conception of) philosophical experience, which is in many ways more interesting than his philosophy. Part Four of the Discourse on Method contains the formal beginning of th…
Intention, Authority, and Meaning
Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy
Inventions: Writing, Textuality and Understanding in Literary History
Structuralism, Deconstruction, and Hermeneutics
Loose Talk about Religion from William James
Canon and Power in the Hebrew Scriptures
Secrecy and Silence in Interpretation
Writing on Ashes: Heidegger Fort Derrida
The Reception of Heidegger's Thought in American Literary Criticism
Stanley Cavell's Shakespeare
Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings
Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings
Reply to Crewe and Conant
What Is Tradition
It might be as well to ask Gadamer whose and what tradition he has in mind. For his theory holds only on the enormous assumption that there is indeed a single mainstream tradition; that all valid works participate in it; that history forms an unbroken continuum, free of decisive rupture, conflict, and contradiction; and that the prejudices which we (who?) have inherited from the tradition are to be cher
Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy
As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it has been so influential. In the first comprehensive study of this important French writer to appear in English, Gerald Bruns ties Blanchot's writings to each other and to the works of his contempor…
Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English
Judith H. Anderson. Words that Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xi + 338 pp. $39.50. ISBN: 0-8047-2631-0. - Paula Blank. Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. viii + 211 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-415-13779-9. - Volume 51 Issue 4
Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric
Wayne A. Rebhorn, ed. Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. x + 322 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 0-8014-8206-2. - Marijke Spies. Rhetoric, Rhetoricians, and Poetics Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999. 169 pp. FF 39.50. ISBN: 90-5356-400-4. - Volume 55 Issue 2
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