Robert T Tally
Biographic Data
| ID | 334968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert T Tally |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert T |
| FAMILY NAME | Tally |
| SIGNATURE | TALLY R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7089-7739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The World Is Bent
Remarking on the rapid and widespread changes associated with globalization at the turn of this century, Thomas Friedman declared that “the world is flat.” He was referring to what he imagined as a leveled playing field among different countries in a global economic system dominated by multinational corporations. But as Ranjan Ghosh’s The Plastic Turn (2022) reveals, the world in an era of globalization is not so much flat as “bent,” tending towa…
Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Our historical metabolism has undergone a serious mutation: the organs with which we register time can handle only smaller and smaller, and more and more immediate, empirical segments; the schematism of our transcendental historical imagination encompasses less and less material, and can process only stories short enough to be verifiable via television.The larger, more abstract thoughts . . .fall outside the apparatus; they may be true but are no…
Jameson the teacher
Utopianism after the American Century
The Politics of Criticism and the Criticism of Politics
As practiced, literary and culture criticism is always in some sense metacritical—that is, finding itself inevitably drawn to discussing its own conditions of possibility. Bruce Robbins's Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction explores these conditions as they have changed since the 1960s, noting in particular the vexed relationship between criticism and politics, itself a much-debated topic within criticism. Robbins surveys the contemp…
We Hear Only Ourselves
Readers of Utopian Studies might be surprised to learn that the idea of utopia is “almost universally denied” (xv) that is has heretofore played little to no role in “liberatory political philosophy” (xv), and that, despite these things, “the idea of utopia ought to have a place in radical political theory” (xvii). And yet such proposition appears to be the starting point, as well as the raison d’être, for Bill Cashmore in We Hear Only Ourselves:…
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
Spatial Literary Studies in China
Critique and its discontents
In her celebrated study The Limits of Critique (2015), Rita Felski asserts that literary criticism during the past 40 years or more has been beholden to “the hermeneutics of suspicion,” a paranoid approach to interpretation that seeks to uncover concealed or repressed meanings without due appreciation for the texts as it appears. Felski believes that “critique” is necessarily implicated in this suspicious reading, and she argues instead for a pos…
Monstrous Accumulation
The predominance of the horror genre, broadly conceived, in recent years attests to the profound sense of anxiety and dread permeating late capitalist societies. As the processes and effects of globalization become more viscerally experienced, they are also often rendered invisible or unknowable, and individuals and groups find themselves subject to an immense array of forces beyond their control. The contemporary scene is crowded with monsters, …
Panel Paper
Boundless Mystification
In Marxist literary criticism-for example, as represented by Fredric Jame-son's influential study, The Political Unconscious-the interpretation of texts has frequently involved ideology critique, by which the critic attempts to disclose both the ideological content or structural limitations of a given text while also being attuned to the text's utopian or revolutionary potential. In recent decades, Marxist criticism in particular and what is take…
Demonizing the Enemy, Literally
A seemingly inescapable feature of war is the demonization of the enemy, who becomes somehow less human and more deserving of death in times of military strife, which unsurprisingly helps to justify the violence against them. This article looks at the development, character, and role of the orcs—creatures that are in some senses, literally demonized—in J. R. R. Tolkien’s writings in connection with the ideological need to demonize the enemy in Wo…
The End-of-the-World as World System
The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space
What happens when we read? How can we understand the specific relationship between literature and the physiological workings of the brain or mind? What does reading ‘do’ to our bodies? What do our bodies more or less spontaneously and unconsciously do when reading? Moreover, what do we as somatic agents do, often in a deliberately reflective and conscious way? These questions which have often intrigued literary theorists, linguists, psychologists…
Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space
Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative
Book Review| December 01 2017 Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu Ryan, Marie-Laure; Foote, Kenneth; Azaryahu, Maoz, Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016. viii + 312 pp. Robert T. Tally, Jr. Robert T. Tally, Jr. Texas State University Search for other works by…
Literary Cartographies
Introduction
At a Modern Language Association convention several years ago, following a session we had organized on geocriticism, a group of us discussed the possibility of continuing what we took to be a crucial conversation on the relations between space, place, mapping, and literature.1 While we all agreed that the topic was both timely and necessary, some wondered if the ostensible, if misleading, neutrality of space or spatiality worked against the proje…
Ecocriticism and Geocriticism
Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, thi
Beyond the Flaming Walls of the World
Utopia in the Age of Globalization
The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argue
Geocritical Explorations
Geocritical Explorations
Herman Melville
Tally reviews Loren Goldner's Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic King, which posits that Melville was the American Marx, exposing the crisis of bourgeois ideology in the revolutionary period around 1848. In this, Goldner follows a tradition of Marxian scholarship of Melville, notably including C.L.R. James, Michael Paul Rogin, and Cesare Casarino. Tally concludes that Goldner's argument, while interesting, is limited b…
Ecocriticism and Geocriticism
Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, thi
Boundless Mystification
In Marxist literary criticism-for example, as represented by Fredric Jame-son's influential study, The Political Unconscious-the interpretation of texts has frequently involved ideology critique, by which the critic attempts to disclose both the ideological content or structural limitations of a given text while also being attuned to the text's utopian or revolutionary potential. In recent decades, Marxist criticism in particular and what is take…
The Agony of the Political
Herman Melville
Tally reviews Loren Goldner's Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic King, which posits that Melville was the American Marx, exposing the crisis of bourgeois ideology in the revolutionary period around 1848. In this, Goldner follows a tradition of Marxian scholarship of Melville, notably including C.L.R. James, Michael Paul Rogin, and Cesare Casarino. Tally concludes that Goldner's argument, while interesting, is limited b…
Geocritical Explorations
Geocritical Explorations
Utopia in the Age of Globalization
The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argue
Beyond the Flaming Walls of the World
Literary Cartographies
Introduction
At a Modern Language Association convention several years ago, following a session we had organized on geocriticism, a group of us discussed the possibility of continuing what we took to be a crucial conversation on the relations between space, place, mapping, and literature.1 While we all agreed that the topic was both timely and necessary, some wondered if the ostensible, if misleading, neutrality of space or spatiality worked against the proje…
Ecocriticism and Geocriticism
Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, thi
The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space
What happens when we read? How can we understand the specific relationship between literature and the physiological workings of the brain or mind? What does reading ‘do’ to our bodies? What do our bodies more or less spontaneously and unconsciously do when reading? Moreover, what do we as somatic agents do, often in a deliberately reflective and conscious way? These questions which have often intrigued literary theorists, linguists, psychologists…
Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space
Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative
Book Review| December 01 2017 Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu Ryan, Marie-Laure; Foote, Kenneth; Azaryahu, Maoz, Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016. viii + 312 pp. Robert T. Tally, Jr. Robert T. Tally, Jr. Texas State University Search for other works by…
Demonizing the Enemy, Literally
A seemingly inescapable feature of war is the demonization of the enemy, who becomes somehow less human and more deserving of death in times of military strife, which unsurprisingly helps to justify the violence against them. This article looks at the development, character, and role of the orcs—creatures that are in some senses, literally demonized—in J. R. R. Tolkien’s writings in connection with the ideological need to demonize the enemy in Wo…
The End-of-the-World as World System
Critique and its discontents
In her celebrated study The Limits of Critique (2015), Rita Felski asserts that literary criticism during the past 40 years or more has been beholden to “the hermeneutics of suspicion,” a paranoid approach to interpretation that seeks to uncover concealed or repressed meanings without due appreciation for the texts as it appears. Felski believes that “critique” is necessarily implicated in this suspicious reading, and she argues instead for a pos…
Monstrous Accumulation
The predominance of the horror genre, broadly conceived, in recent years attests to the profound sense of anxiety and dread permeating late capitalist societies. As the processes and effects of globalization become more viscerally experienced, they are also often rendered invisible or unknowable, and individuals and groups find themselves subject to an immense array of forces beyond their control. The contemporary scene is crowded with monsters, …
Panel Paper
Boundless Mystification
In Marxist literary criticism-for example, as represented by Fredric Jame-son's influential study, The Political Unconscious-the interpretation of texts has frequently involved ideology critique, by which the critic attempts to disclose both the ideological content or structural limitations of a given text while also being attuned to the text's utopian or revolutionary potential. In recent decades, Marxist criticism in particular and what is take…
Spatial Literary Studies in China
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
We Hear Only Ourselves
Readers of Utopian Studies might be surprised to learn that the idea of utopia is “almost universally denied” (xv) that is has heretofore played little to no role in “liberatory political philosophy” (xv), and that, despite these things, “the idea of utopia ought to have a place in radical political theory” (xvii). And yet such proposition appears to be the starting point, as well as the raison d’être, for Bill Cashmore in We Hear Only Ourselves:…
The World Is Bent
Remarking on the rapid and widespread changes associated with globalization at the turn of this century, Thomas Friedman declared that “the world is flat.” He was referring to what he imagined as a leveled playing field among different countries in a global economic system dominated by multinational corporations. But as Ranjan Ghosh’s The Plastic Turn (2022) reveals, the world in an era of globalization is not so much flat as “bent,” tending towa…
Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Our historical metabolism has undergone a serious mutation: the organs with which we register time can handle only smaller and smaller, and more and more immediate, empirical segments; the schematism of our transcendental historical imagination encompasses less and less material, and can process only stories short enough to be verifiable via television.The larger, more abstract thoughts . . .fall outside the apparatus; they may be true but are no…
Jameson the teacher
Utopianism after the American Century
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