Mark Mcgurl
Biographic Data
| ID | 311447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Mcgurl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgurl |
| SIGNATURE | MCGURL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social Capital: Epic Fantasy and the Magical School
The term “cultural capital” has entered the general lexicon of cultural criticism as a description of social prestige won through the acquisition of knowledge rather than monetary wealth. And, yet, for all its utility in delineating the form of value acquired by students in the study of literature in school, cultural capital has proven limited in its ability to explain the dynamics of the contemporary literary field at large. Addressing this limi…
The New Cultural Geology
The New Cultural Geology," in Twentieth-Century Literature, Volume 57, no. 3-4, pp. 380-390. Copyright, 2011, Hofstra University. All rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyrightholder, and the present publisher, Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu
Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James
Gigantic Realism: The Rise of the Novel and the Comedy of Scale
From this perspective, a text like Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) might begin to look somewhat nostalgic, as though the only real problem is to comprehend the body of nature in its guise of extensional largeness. In the chapter called “Cetology” whales are poetically-scientifically categorized according to size, and each size-category analogically tied to a physical form of the book—folio, octavo, duodecimo. Conceptually, the book contains th…
The Institution of Nothing: David Foster Wallace in the Program
This essay examines David Foster Wallace as a “program” writer in various senses, including as a graduate of a creative writing program and participant in twelve-step recovery programs. It argues that what makes Wallace most distinctive in literary historical terms is his rejection of the paranoid relation to institutions characteristic of an earlier generation of postmodern writers and his inhabitation, instead, of various forms of institutional…
II“Neither Indeed Could I Forebear Smiling at My Self”: A Reply to Wai Chee Dimock
The Posthuman Comedy
Ordinary Doom: Literary Studies in the Waste Land of the Present
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture
This essay uses the scandal surrounding the authorship of Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree, discovered to have been written by white supremacist activist and speechwriter, Asa Carter, as an occasion to examine the shifting relation between American education and the political sphere in the 1960s and seventies, demonstrating how the figure of the Native American became a symbolic vehicle of the period's increasing inability to decide …
The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction
The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James
Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist …
Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James
Research Article| October 01 1999 Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James Mark McGurl Mark McGurl Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 68: 59–83. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902955 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark McG…
Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in 'King Kong
The Posthuman Comedy
The Institution of Nothing: David Foster Wallace in the Program
This essay examines David Foster Wallace as a “program” writer in various senses, including as a graduate of a creative writing program and participant in twelve-step recovery programs. It argues that what makes Wallace most distinctive in literary historical terms is his rejection of the paranoid relation to institutions characteristic of an earlier generation of postmodern writers and his inhabitation, instead, of various forms of institutional…
The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction
II“Neither Indeed Could I Forebear Smiling at My Self”: A Reply to Wai Chee Dimock
Gigantic Realism: The Rise of the Novel and the Comedy of Scale
From this perspective, a text like Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) might begin to look somewhat nostalgic, as though the only real problem is to comprehend the body of nature in its guise of extensional largeness. In the chapter called “Cetology” whales are poetically-scientifically categorized according to size, and each size-category analogically tied to a physical form of the book—folio, octavo, duodecimo. Conceptually, the book contains th…
Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in 'King Kong
Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in 'King Kong
Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James
Research Article| October 01 1999 Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James Mark McGurl Mark McGurl Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 68: 59–83. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902955 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark McG…
The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James
Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist …
Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture
This essay uses the scandal surrounding the authorship of Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree, discovered to have been written by white supremacist activist and speechwriter, Asa Carter, as an occasion to examine the shifting relation between American education and the political sphere in the 1960s and seventies, demonstrating how the figure of the Native American became a symbolic vehicle of the period's increasing inability to decide …
The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
Ordinary Doom: Literary Studies in the Waste Land of the Present
The Posthuman Comedy
II“Neither Indeed Could I Forebear Smiling at My Self”: A Reply to Wai Chee Dimock
The Institution of Nothing: David Foster Wallace in the Program
This essay examines David Foster Wallace as a “program” writer in various senses, including as a graduate of a creative writing program and participant in twelve-step recovery programs. It argues that what makes Wallace most distinctive in literary historical terms is his rejection of the paranoid relation to institutions characteristic of an earlier generation of postmodern writers and his inhabitation, instead, of various forms of institutional…
Gigantic Realism: The Rise of the Novel and the Comedy of Scale
From this perspective, a text like Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) might begin to look somewhat nostalgic, as though the only real problem is to comprehend the body of nature in its guise of extensional largeness. In the chapter called “Cetology” whales are poetically-scientifically categorized according to size, and each size-category analogically tied to a physical form of the book—folio, octavo, duodecimo. Conceptually, the book contains th…
Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James
The New Cultural Geology
The New Cultural Geology," in Twentieth-Century Literature, Volume 57, no. 3-4, pp. 380-390. Copyright, 2011, Hofstra University. All rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyrightholder, and the present publisher, Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu
Social Capital: Epic Fantasy and the Magical School
The term “cultural capital” has entered the general lexicon of cultural criticism as a description of social prestige won through the acquisition of knowledge rather than monetary wealth. And, yet, for all its utility in delineating the form of value acquired by students in the study of literature in school, cultural capital has proven limited in its ability to explain the dynamics of the contemporary literary field at large. Addressing this limi…
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