William H Epstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 323736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Epstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Epstein |
| SIGNATURE | EPSTEIN W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
Introduction
(2011). Introduction: Biopics and American National Identity—Invented Lives, Imagined Communities. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 26, Biopics and American National Identity, pp. 1-33
Tryouts
Embodied Knowing
Responses and Reviews William h. Epstein Embodied Knowing In his recent article in Biography 17.2 (Spring 1994): 125-42, "Reading Lives to Live: Mortality, Introspection, and die Soteriological Impulse," Richard A. Hutch, claiming that his "argument cuts across die grain of postmodern thought in the humanities," contends that "workers in biographical studies have not pursued embodied knowing because it has itself been tied up in postmodernism and…
Counter-Intelligence
As we shall see, the Stonecutter Controversy induced by Ellis' article and sustained by Clifford's pedagogy is a compelling instance of the distinction I am suggesting here, not least because its production and reproduction in mid-twentieth-century critical discourse can be situated at a closely watched checkpoint in Cold-War American culture. At this critical juncture professional practitioners in governmental and educational agencies of authori…
The Nonsense Club
The Nonsense Club was a group of five friends and writers--Charles Churchill, Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, William Cowper, and Robert Lloyd--who wrote and edited numerous periodicals, produced a distinctive and often brilliant satirical poetry, engaged in virulent theatrical and literary battles, and participated in the most important domestic political debate of their time. In this first comprehensive study of the group, Lance Bertelsen uses…
Recognizing Biography
Recognizing Biography
Epstein's narrative interweaves interpretive and theoretical chapters as it emplots the discourse of English biography from Walton to Strachey. In this way familiar generic relationships between biographer, subject, life, text, falsehood, and readership are analyzed in specific (if constantly shifting) historical, literary, cultural, and economic texts.
Recognizing the Life-Text
By exploring contemporary generic relationships between the 'natural,' the 'cultural,' and the 'narratable' as an already inscribed narrative scheme (a generic frame ), we can project an approach to the poetics of biography. This generic frame employs these relationships as an elusive attempt to "recognize the life-text" as the moment of cultural transformation when a natural life become a narratable text, when a narrated event becomes a biograph…
Bios and Logos
Research Article| July 01 1983 Bios and Logos: Boswell’s Life of Johnson and Recent Literary Theory William H. Epstein William H. Epstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (3): 246–255. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-82-3-246 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William H. Epstein; Bios and Logos: Boswell’s Life of Johnson an…
Introduction
(2011). Introduction: Biopics and American National Identity—Invented Lives, Imagined Communities. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 26, Biopics and American National Identity, pp. 1-33
Recognizing the Life-Text
By exploring contemporary generic relationships between the 'natural,' the 'cultural,' and the 'narratable' as an already inscribed narrative scheme (a generic frame ), we can project an approach to the poetics of biography. This generic frame employs these relationships as an elusive attempt to "recognize the life-text" as the moment of cultural transformation when a natural life become a narratable text, when a narrated event becomes a biograph…
Bios and Logos
Research Article| July 01 1983 Bios and Logos: Boswell’s Life of Johnson and Recent Literary Theory William H. Epstein William H. Epstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (3): 246–255. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-82-3-246 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William H. Epstein; Bios and Logos: Boswell’s Life of Johnson an…
Recognizing Biography
Epstein's narrative interweaves interpretive and theoretical chapters as it emplots the discourse of English biography from Walton to Strachey. In this way familiar generic relationships between biographer, subject, life, text, falsehood, and readership are analyzed in specific (if constantly shifting) historical, literary, cultural, and economic texts.
The Nonsense Club
The Nonsense Club was a group of five friends and writers--Charles Churchill, Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, William Cowper, and Robert Lloyd--who wrote and edited numerous periodicals, produced a distinctive and often brilliant satirical poetry, engaged in virulent theatrical and literary battles, and participated in the most important domestic political debate of their time. In this first comprehensive study of the group, Lance Bertelsen uses…
Recognizing Biography
Counter-Intelligence
As we shall see, the Stonecutter Controversy induced by Ellis' article and sustained by Clifford's pedagogy is a compelling instance of the distinction I am suggesting here, not least because its production and reproduction in mid-twentieth-century critical discourse can be situated at a closely watched checkpoint in Cold-War American culture. At this critical juncture professional practitioners in governmental and educational agencies of authori…
Embodied Knowing
Responses and Reviews William h. Epstein Embodied Knowing In his recent article in Biography 17.2 (Spring 1994): 125-42, "Reading Lives to Live: Mortality, Introspection, and die Soteriological Impulse," Richard A. Hutch, claiming that his "argument cuts across die grain of postmodern thought in the humanities," contends that "workers in biographical studies have not pursued embodied knowing because it has itself been tied up in postmodernism and…
Tryouts
Introduction
(2011). Introduction: Biopics and American National Identity—Invented Lives, Imagined Communities. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 26, Biopics and American National Identity, pp. 1-33
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
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