Ross Posnock
Biographic Data
| ID | 316321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Posnock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Posnock |
| SIGNATURE | POSNOCK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics, Aesthetics, and the Critical Humanities
Ross Posnock is Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, where he studies and teaches US and European literature and intellectual history. Ross Posnock was Andrew Hilen Professor of American Literature at the University of Washington before teaching in the English department at New York University from 2000 to 2004. From 1998 to 2017 he was series editor of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Cambrid…
Renunciation
Renunciation as a creative force is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock's new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of writers, philosophers, and artists to society in productive and unpredictable ways.
I'm Not There
ROSS POSNOCK, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2009, is the Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James and the Challenge of Modernity (1991), Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual (1998), and Philip Roth’s Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity (2006). Perhaps, like me, you have a propensity to collect books without q…
Don't think, but look
This essay has two aims: to bring together the antinovelist Sebald with a figure he revered, the antiphilosopher Wittgenstein, via the theme and form of "desublimed" looking—vision that respects surface and avoids "Cartesian rigidity" (Sebald). The essay weaves these two writers into a larger constellation, inaugurated by the first cosmopolitan Diogenes the Cynic, and which includes his admirer William James, a grouping marked by an esteem of pov…
Like but Unalike”
Eric Sundquist, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) As measured by that deadly but inescapable phrase “quantity and quality,” Eric Sundquist is perhaps the most productive American literature scholar of his generation. Since 1979, when he was still in his twenties, he has authored half a dozen books while editing another half-dozen. All have made an impact and many of these h…
Cosmopolitan Style
Book Review| January 01 2007 Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the NationWalkowitz, Rebecca L. Ross Posnock Ross Posnock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (3): 393–395. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ross Posnock; Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nat…
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison's classic 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides an introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features essays by leading scholars, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays reveal alternative dimensions of Ellison's art radiating out from Invisi…
Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
Introductrion : Ellison's joking / Ross Posnock -- Ralph Ellison's invented life : a meeting with the ancestors / Lawrence Jackson -- Ellison and the black church : the gospel according to Ralph / Laura Saunders -- Ellison, photography, and the origins of invisibility / Sara Blair -- Ralph Ellison's music lessons / Paul Allen Anderson -- Ralph Ellison's constitutional faith / Gregg Crane -- Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia / Anne Anl…
Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politics
Bringing Ellison and Arendt together could well comprise a chapter on yet another failed interaction between black and Jewish intellectuals. After all, on the two occasions when Ellison publically mentions Arendt it is in a less than favorable light. At the start of ''The World and the Jug,'' his compelling skewering of Irving Howe, Ellison remarks that Howe's earlier critique of Ellison is ''written with something of the Olympian authority that …
Color and Culture
The Dream of Deracination
Journal Article The Dream of Deracination: The Uses of Cosmopolitanism Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 12, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 802–818, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/12.4.802 Published: 01 December 2000
Color & Culture
Journal Article Color & Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By Ross Posnock. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 353 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-14309-4.) Get access Kevin Mumford Kevin Mumford Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1357–1358, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
Democratic Temperament
Journal Article Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James. By Joshua I. Miller. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xx, 168 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0831-1) Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 269–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568529 Published: 0…
How It Feels to Be a Problem
This essay is organized into two parts. The first constructs historical and thematic contexts, including a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's famous collision with Booker T. Washington as an instance of a larger historical pattern in the late nineteenth century in both the West and in West Africa, a pattern that reveals the social role of the intellectual as founded on a refusal of the ideology of the authentic. This refusal has rarely, if ever, been …
The Distinction of Du Bois
Journal Article The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 7, Issue 3, fall 1995, Pages 500–524, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/7.3.500 Published: 01 October 1995
The Trial of Curiosity
The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage
Journal Article The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, & Santayana. By Robert DawidofF. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxvi + 218 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2017-2.) Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993…
The Jameses
Journal Article The Jameses: A Family Narrative. By R. W. B. Lewis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 and The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity. By Ross Posnock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991 Get access Daniel H. Borus Daniel H. Borus University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March …
The Politics of Nonidentity
Henry James and the Problem of Robert Browning
Henry James and the Problem of Robert Browning
How It Feels to Be a Problem
This essay is organized into two parts. The first constructs historical and thematic contexts, including a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's famous collision with Booker T. Washington as an instance of a larger historical pattern in the late nineteenth century in both the West and in West Africa, a pattern that reveals the social role of the intellectual as founded on a refusal of the ideology of the authentic. This refusal has rarely, if ever, been …
Democratic Temperament
Journal Article Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James. By Joshua I. Miller. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xx, 168 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0831-1) Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 269–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568529 Published: 0…
Don't think, but look
This essay has two aims: to bring together the antinovelist Sebald with a figure he revered, the antiphilosopher Wittgenstein, via the theme and form of "desublimed" looking—vision that respects surface and avoids "Cartesian rigidity" (Sebald). The essay weaves these two writers into a larger constellation, inaugurated by the first cosmopolitan Diogenes the Cynic, and which includes his admirer William James, a grouping marked by an esteem of pov…
Cosmopolitan Style
Book Review| January 01 2007 Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the NationWalkowitz, Rebecca L. Ross Posnock Ross Posnock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (3): 393–395. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ross Posnock; Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nat…
Henry James and the Problem of Robert Browning
Henry James and the Problem of Robert Browning
The Politics of Nonidentity
The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage
Journal Article The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, & Santayana. By Robert DawidofF. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxvi + 218 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2017-2.) Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993…
The Jameses
Journal Article The Jameses: A Family Narrative. By R. W. B. Lewis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 and The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity. By Ross Posnock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991 Get access Daniel H. Borus Daniel H. Borus University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March …
The Trial of Curiosity
The Distinction of Du Bois
Journal Article The Distinction of Du Bois: Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Politics Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 7, Issue 3, fall 1995, Pages 500–524, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/7.3.500 Published: 01 October 1995
How It Feels to Be a Problem
This essay is organized into two parts. The first constructs historical and thematic contexts, including a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's famous collision with Booker T. Washington as an instance of a larger historical pattern in the late nineteenth century in both the West and in West Africa, a pattern that reveals the social role of the intellectual as founded on a refusal of the ideology of the authentic. This refusal has rarely, if ever, been …
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work
Democratic Temperament
Journal Article Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James. By Joshua I. Miller. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xx, 168 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0831-1) Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 269–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568529 Published: 0…
Color & Culture
Journal Article Color & Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By Ross Posnock. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 353 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-14309-4.) Get access Kevin Mumford Kevin Mumford Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1357–1358, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The Dream of Deracination
Journal Article The Dream of Deracination: The Uses of Cosmopolitanism Get access Ross Posnock Ross Posnock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 12, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 802–818, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/12.4.802 Published: 01 December 2000
Color and Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison's classic 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides an introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features essays by leading scholars, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays reveal alternative dimensions of Ellison's art radiating out from Invisi…
Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
Introductrion : Ellison's joking / Ross Posnock -- Ralph Ellison's invented life : a meeting with the ancestors / Lawrence Jackson -- Ellison and the black church : the gospel according to Ralph / Laura Saunders -- Ellison, photography, and the origins of invisibility / Sara Blair -- Ralph Ellison's music lessons / Paul Allen Anderson -- Ralph Ellison's constitutional faith / Gregg Crane -- Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia / Anne Anl…
Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politics
Bringing Ellison and Arendt together could well comprise a chapter on yet another failed interaction between black and Jewish intellectuals. After all, on the two occasions when Ellison publically mentions Arendt it is in a less than favorable light. At the start of ''The World and the Jug,'' his compelling skewering of Irving Howe, Ellison remarks that Howe's earlier critique of Ellison is ''written with something of the Olympian authority that …
Like but Unalike”
Eric Sundquist, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) As measured by that deadly but inescapable phrase “quantity and quality,” Eric Sundquist is perhaps the most productive American literature scholar of his generation. Since 1979, when he was still in his twenties, he has authored half a dozen books while editing another half-dozen. All have made an impact and many of these h…
Cosmopolitan Style
Book Review| January 01 2007 Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the NationWalkowitz, Rebecca L. Ross Posnock Ross Posnock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (3): 393–395. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ross Posnock; Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nat…
Don't think, but look
This essay has two aims: to bring together the antinovelist Sebald with a figure he revered, the antiphilosopher Wittgenstein, via the theme and form of "desublimed" looking—vision that respects surface and avoids "Cartesian rigidity" (Sebald). The essay weaves these two writers into a larger constellation, inaugurated by the first cosmopolitan Diogenes the Cynic, and which includes his admirer William James, a grouping marked by an esteem of pov…
I'm Not There
ROSS POSNOCK, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2009, is the Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James and the Challenge of Modernity (1991), Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual (1998), and Philip Roth’s Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity (2006). Perhaps, like me, you have a propensity to collect books without q…
Renunciation
Renunciation as a creative force is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock's new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of writers, philosophers, and artists to society in productive and unpredictable ways.
Politics, Aesthetics, and the Critical Humanities
Ross Posnock is Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, where he studies and teaches US and European literature and intellectual history. Ross Posnock was Andrew Hilen Professor of American Literature at the University of Washington before teaching in the English department at New York University from 2000 to 2004. From 1998 to 2017 he was series editor of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Cambrid…
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