Anahid Nersessian
Biographic Data
| ID | 311467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anahid Nersessian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anahid |
| FAMILY NAME | Nersessian |
| SIGNATURE | NERSESSIAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7800-2562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
Keats and Shelley
This essay examines the literary interchange between Percy Shelley and John Keats through a comparative reading of their poems, ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ and ‘To Autumn’, both of which were written in explicit (Shelley) or implicit (Keats) response to the Peterloo Massacre. Drawing special attention to the formal and stylistic differences between these two poets, I argue that each demonstrates a distinctive attitude towards argument. More particularl…
Notes on Tone
An aetiology of flatness, traced through close readings of three radical American poets. In tension with the expressive subjectivity of lyric and the forceful register of political commitment, resonances of the muted, withdrawn or deadpan affect of this poetry with a broader cultural mode, as the sound of the historical present
Liberty’s Bookseller
For Love of Beauty
Engaging sceptically with Joseph North’s Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, Anahid Nersessian questions the terms of a leftist literary criticism built on an opposition to idealism, rather than a reckoning with the material crises besetting academia
Romantic Difficulty
This essay begins to imagine a theory of difficulty grounded in Romantic poetry but broadly portable into other eras and forms. On my account, the difficult Romantic poem deflects attention by saying more or less what it means, especially when what it means is to condemn features of the historical present. That is, its rhetorical and moral simplicity is lodged in an obvious antagonism to the disconcerting, mostly equivocal moods by which it is al…
Critical Response V Forms and Explanations: A Reply to Our Critics
Romantic Ecocriticism Lately
This article surveys studies in Romanticism over the course of the last decade, focusing particularly on work that engages what might loosely be called ecological concerns. In contrast to standard accounts of “ecocriticism,” however, it holds that the most generative work being done in this field and, with these interests at heart, is not explicitly ecocritical. Instead, the article finds in the rhetorically attentive contributions of Romanticist…
Form and Explanation
Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment
What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal. Applying the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet, she enlists the Romantics to redefine utopia as an investment in limitation-not a perfect world but one where we get less than we hoped but more than we had
Form and Explanation
Romantic Ecocriticism Lately
This article surveys studies in Romanticism over the course of the last decade, focusing particularly on work that engages what might loosely be called ecological concerns. In contrast to standard accounts of “ecocriticism,” however, it holds that the most generative work being done in this field and, with these interests at heart, is not explicitly ecocritical. Instead, the article finds in the rhetorically attentive contributions of Romanticist…
Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment
What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal. Applying the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet, she enlists the Romantics to redefine utopia as an investment in limitation-not a perfect world but one where we get less than we hoped but more than we had
Critical Response V Forms and Explanations: A Reply to Our Critics
Romantic Ecocriticism Lately
This article surveys studies in Romanticism over the course of the last decade, focusing particularly on work that engages what might loosely be called ecological concerns. In contrast to standard accounts of “ecocriticism,” however, it holds that the most generative work being done in this field and, with these interests at heart, is not explicitly ecocritical. Instead, the article finds in the rhetorically attentive contributions of Romanticist…
Form and Explanation
Romantic Difficulty
This essay begins to imagine a theory of difficulty grounded in Romantic poetry but broadly portable into other eras and forms. On my account, the difficult Romantic poem deflects attention by saying more or less what it means, especially when what it means is to condemn features of the historical present. That is, its rhetorical and moral simplicity is lodged in an obvious antagonism to the disconcerting, mostly equivocal moods by which it is al…
Liberty’s Bookseller
For Love of Beauty
Engaging sceptically with Joseph North’s Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, Anahid Nersessian questions the terms of a leftist literary criticism built on an opposition to idealism, rather than a reckoning with the material crises besetting academia
Notes on Tone
An aetiology of flatness, traced through close readings of three radical American poets. In tension with the expressive subjectivity of lyric and the forceful register of political commitment, resonances of the muted, withdrawn or deadpan affect of this poetry with a broader cultural mode, as the sound of the historical present
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
Keats and Shelley
This essay examines the literary interchange between Percy Shelley and John Keats through a comparative reading of their poems, ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ and ‘To Autumn’, both of which were written in explicit (Shelley) or implicit (Keats) response to the Peterloo Massacre. Drawing special attention to the formal and stylistic differences between these two poets, I argue that each demonstrates a distinctive attitude towards argument. More particularl…
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Poetry Analysis and Criticism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Criticism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Romance (3 works)