David Faflik
Biographic Data
| ID | 346672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Faflik |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Faflik |
| SIGNATURE | FAFLIK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Independência Do Brasil, Ou O Ano Da Baleia
Informado em parte pelas ideias revolucionárias do Iluminismo europeu, o movimento de independência do Brasil no século XIX garantiu, com razão, um lugar nas recentes histórias intelectuais e sociais do Ocidente. A premissa deste artigo é que as práticas culturais do Brasil revolucionário são igualmente merecedoras da atenção dos estudiosos, inclusive pela forma como essas práticas informaram o início da experiência vivida de independência entre …
American Enchantment
Book Review| March 01 2020 American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary WorldBeautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World. By Sizemore, Michelle. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2017. ix, 240 pp. Cloth, $74.00; e-book, $66.72.Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusion…
Slantwise Moves
There are, Douglas A. Guerra suggests in Slantwise Moves, “ways of understanding history” that can position us “alongside” our ostensible subjects of interest from the past without having to resort to the direct treatment of a thing (p. 102). Witness the “ways” of Guerra's own insinuating monograph, which is concerned as much with the “meta” dimensions of historical methodology as it is the familiar content of traditional history. What history we…
Antebellum Apathy
This essay makes a pair of interrelated claims about apathy. One of these is literary-historical, the other critical-literary. During the turbulent middle decades of the nineteenth century, a number of US writers resorted to the emotionless state of apathy even as the wider culture normalized the possession and display of feelings. The antebellum writings of author Herman Melville are hardly alone in demonstrating apathy’s hermeneutic and aesthet…
Stuart Hall and the Whiteness of the Whale
However much he might be identified with cultural and postcolonial studies, Stuart Hall has imparted to students from a range of interdisciplines a means of interpretation that is rooted, at last, in metaphor. Hall's writing made imaginative use of language for reasons other than the literal conveyance of meaning, but that is not to say he was interested in metaphors for their own sake. Rather, Hall employed metaphors as an interpretive tool for …
Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic
American author Henry David Thoreau's transcendental writings are aesthetically “shallow.” To read Thoreau's signature works is to locate interpretive meaning elsewhere than the resonant “depths” with which we long have associated the transcendental text. These are the implications for literary transcendentalism generally in the wake of our recent critical turn toward “surface reading.” Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus write on the one hand in the …
A Nobel Sport
This article advances a twofold argument regarding the intersection of globalization, sport, and race. Such is world football's popularity, first, that the sport itself is now a rhetoric in its own right. So freighted is football with internationalist associations that this rhetoric has been enlisted in support of various political invocations of the global from the middle decades of the 20th century forward, as the following abbreviated case stu…
Housing the "Other" Half
Over the course of its short lifetime, the discipline of American studies has utilized a series of self-defining metaphors. With each successive paradigm shift in the field, each of these disciplinary figures, in turn, has been found wanting, and so replaced. American studies’ current, if not consensual, metaphor—the “border”—resembles not a few of its predecessors in that it is spatial in nature and effectively doubles as a figuration of the gre…
Young American Puns
Research Article| February 01 2003 YOUNG AMERICAN PUNS: ANTEBELLUM WORDPLAY AND DEMOCRATIC MANHATTAN DAVID FAFLIK DAVID FAFLIK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (1): 75–92. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-1-75 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation DAVID FAFLIK; YOUNG AMERICAN PUNS: ANTEBELLUM WORDPLAY AND DEMOCRATIC MANHATTAN. America…
A Nobel Sport
This article advances a twofold argument regarding the intersection of globalization, sport, and race. Such is world football's popularity, first, that the sport itself is now a rhetoric in its own right. So freighted is football with internationalist associations that this rhetoric has been enlisted in support of various political invocations of the global from the middle decades of the 20th century forward, as the following abbreviated case stu…
Young American Puns
Research Article| February 01 2003 YOUNG AMERICAN PUNS: ANTEBELLUM WORDPLAY AND DEMOCRATIC MANHATTAN DAVID FAFLIK DAVID FAFLIK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (1): 75–92. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-1-75 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation DAVID FAFLIK; YOUNG AMERICAN PUNS: ANTEBELLUM WORDPLAY AND DEMOCRATIC MANHATTAN. America…
Housing the "Other" Half
Over the course of its short lifetime, the discipline of American studies has utilized a series of self-defining metaphors. With each successive paradigm shift in the field, each of these disciplinary figures, in turn, has been found wanting, and so replaced. American studies’ current, if not consensual, metaphor—the “border”—resembles not a few of its predecessors in that it is spatial in nature and effectively doubles as a figuration of the gre…
A Nobel Sport
This article advances a twofold argument regarding the intersection of globalization, sport, and race. Such is world football's popularity, first, that the sport itself is now a rhetoric in its own right. So freighted is football with internationalist associations that this rhetoric has been enlisted in support of various political invocations of the global from the middle decades of the 20th century forward, as the following abbreviated case stu…
Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic
American author Henry David Thoreau's transcendental writings are aesthetically “shallow.” To read Thoreau's signature works is to locate interpretive meaning elsewhere than the resonant “depths” with which we long have associated the transcendental text. These are the implications for literary transcendentalism generally in the wake of our recent critical turn toward “surface reading.” Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus write on the one hand in the …
Stuart Hall and the Whiteness of the Whale
However much he might be identified with cultural and postcolonial studies, Stuart Hall has imparted to students from a range of interdisciplines a means of interpretation that is rooted, at last, in metaphor. Hall's writing made imaginative use of language for reasons other than the literal conveyance of meaning, but that is not to say he was interested in metaphors for their own sake. Rather, Hall employed metaphors as an interpretive tool for …
Antebellum Apathy
This essay makes a pair of interrelated claims about apathy. One of these is literary-historical, the other critical-literary. During the turbulent middle decades of the nineteenth century, a number of US writers resorted to the emotionless state of apathy even as the wider culture normalized the possession and display of feelings. The antebellum writings of author Herman Melville are hardly alone in demonstrating apathy’s hermeneutic and aesthet…
American Enchantment
Book Review| March 01 2020 American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary WorldBeautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World. By Sizemore, Michelle. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2017. ix, 240 pp. Cloth, $74.00; e-book, $66.72.Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusion…
Slantwise Moves
There are, Douglas A. Guerra suggests in Slantwise Moves, “ways of understanding history” that can position us “alongside” our ostensible subjects of interest from the past without having to resort to the direct treatment of a thing (p. 102). Witness the “ways” of Guerra's own insinuating monograph, which is concerned as much with the “meta” dimensions of historical methodology as it is the familiar content of traditional history. What history we…
Independência Do Brasil, Ou O Ano Da Baleia
Informado em parte pelas ideias revolucionárias do Iluminismo europeu, o movimento de independência do Brasil no século XIX garantiu, com razão, um lugar nas recentes histórias intelectuais e sociais do Ocidente. A premissa deste artigo é que as práticas culturais do Brasil revolucionário são igualmente merecedoras da atenção dos estudiosos, inclusive pela forma como essas práticas informaram o início da experiência vivida de independência entre …
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