Paul K Saint-Amour

Biographic Data

ID295483
NAMEPaul K Saint-Amour
GIVEN NAMESPaul K
FAMILY NAMESaint-Amour
SIGNATURESAINT-AMOUR P K
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS24
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Weakly Anthropocentric

    Paul K Saint-AmourARTICLERepresentations2025

    Christopher D. Stone's 1972 law review article "Should Trees Have Standing?" helped launch movements to extend legal personhood to natural objects such as forests and rivers. Richard Powers's 2018 novel The Overstory addresses Stone's article explicitly in its diegesis but not, finally, to grant literary personhood to natural objects. Instead, I argue, the novel mounts, by way of its musings on pareidolia, a defense of weak anthropocentrism. This…

  • There Is Grief of a Tree

    Paul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLEAmerican imago2020Cited by: 3

    There Is Grief of a Tree Paul K. Saint-Amour (bio) These verses from the Book of Job turn on two distinctions: between hope and grief, and between trees and human beings. Hope belongs affirmatively to the tree, which the scent of water may bring back even from old roots or dead stump. For the human there is no sprouting or budding again—no regeneration, at least not "till the heavens be no more." Yet even as the passage divides grief and hope in …

  • The Weak Protagonism of Nations

    Open AccessPaul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2018

    I want to begin my remarks by steaming, as a philatelist would a coveted stamp, a single word off the envelope of Catherine Gallagher's Telling It Like It Wasn't . The word occurs in the introduction, where Gallagher is establishing the boundaries of her subject by offering a sample counterfactual-historical premise: “If John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated in 1963 and had lived to be a two-term president, the war in Vietnam would have been …

  • Weak Theory, Weak Modernism

    Paul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLEModernism/modernity2018Cited by: 13References: 10

    Weak Theory, Weak Modernism Paul K. Saint-Amour (bio) Weakness: not a word that would seem, at first blush, to have anything to say to modernism. Modernism doesn't blush; it blasts. Its reputation is for strength in extremis-for steep critiques of modernity, energetic convention busting, the breaking of vessels. In the words of its early theorists, modernism is "rebellion against authority," a "revolution of the word," "kicking over old walls" an…

  • In a Strange Room

    Paul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLETwentieth Century Literature2017

    What is the power of a corpse to make the room that contains it strange? What ethical losses do we incur when we’re seldom if ever in rooms with the dead? And how might the virtual spaces of the aesthetic give quarter to the strangeness of the corpse’s demand? Luminous and serious in treating these questions, David Sherman’s In a Strange Room looks at how Anglophone modernism responded to a shift in the late-modern way of death: from a time when …

  • Symbols and Things

    Open AccessPaul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourCHAPTERCambridge Companion to Ulysses2014

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  • On the Partiality of Total War

    Paul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLECritical Inquiry2014Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Applied Modernism

    Open AccessPaul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLETheory Culture & Society2011Cited by: 7References: 1

    This article is about a period of technology transfer - the late 1910s and 1920s - when wartime aerial reconnaissance techniques and operations were being adapted to a range of civilian uses, including urban planning, land use analysis, traffic control, tax equalization, and even archaeology. At the center of the discussion is the 'photomosaic': a patchwork of overlapping aerial photographs that have been rectified and fit together so as to form …

  • The Deceivers

    Paul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLEVictorian Studies2008

    Reviewed by: The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century Paul K. Saint-Amour (bio) The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, by Aviva Briefel; pp. xi + 243. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006, $39.95, £22.49. What's so funny about crimes of attribution? Like plagiarism, art forgery is a cardinal sin within tightly constrained circles, but elsewhere—think of Orson Welles's 1974 film F f…

  • Steal This Music

    Open AccessPaul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLEJournal of Popular Music Studies2007

  • Christmas Yet To Come

    Paul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLERepresentations2007

    This essay reads Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and James Joyce's "The Dead" in light of their shared concerns with hospitality. By portraying Scrooge's ethical regeneration as both guest and host, the Carol renews the openness of a future in which one can still intervene for the good in others' lives. Partly through its echoes of Dickens's story, "The Dead" critically engages the ethics of limitless welcome in the context of colonial occupa…

  • Air War Prophecy and Interwar Modernism

    Paul K Saint-Amour, Paul K Saint‐amourARTICLEComparative Literature Studies2005

    Research Article| January 01 2005 Air War Prophecy and Interwar Modernism Paul K. Saint-Amour Paul K. Saint-Amour Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (2): 130–161. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247473 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul K. Saint-Amour; Air War Prophecy and Interwar Modernism. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2005; 42 (2):…