Douglas Mao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Mao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mao |
| SIGNATURE | MAO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Afterword (A hundred flowers)
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice
Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, this book offers a striking new take on utopia's fundamental project. Noting that utopian imagining has often been propelled by an angry conviction that society is badly arranged, the book argues that utopia's essential aim has not been to secure happiness, order, or material goods, but rather to establish a condition of justice in which all ha…
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice
Transcolonial Bildung: George Lamming, Social Death, and Actually Existing Modernism
This article begins by situating the semi-autobiographical narrator of George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin amid modernist representations of child philosophers at the imperial ‘periphery’ and in relation to the figure of the ‘scholarship boy’ elaborated by Richard Hoggart. It then examines the relation between modernism and exile in Lamming's writing in light of recent work on how Lamming's rise as an author was facilitated by a contest bet…
Our Last September
Climate change is a phenomenon of modernity, but the technological enhancement of existence and the proliferating possibilities for the human future associated with modernness sit uneasily, at best, with the deteriorating conditions and narrowing of options for tolerable living that are anticipated for advanced climate change's regime. There is little doubt that climate change portends massive alterations to ways of living for virtually all of th…
Rebecca West and the Origins of A Room of One's Own
This essay argues that Virginia Woolf's treatment of the wellsprings of valid art in A Room of One's Own (1929) is significantly indebted to Rebecca West's exploration of similar questions in “The Strange Necessity” (1928). Noting substantial evidence that Woolf was familiar with West's text by the time she wrote Room, the essay observes that both authors argue for the power of material conditions in art-making even as they work to deflect charge…
Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
The Point of It
This chapter is centrally concerned with two stories by E. M. Forster. One, ‘The Machine Stops’, has long been considered a classic of dystopian fiction. For George Kateb in Utopia and Its Enemies (1963), Forster’s story, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924) taken together give vent to ‘almost every fear that utopian ends arouse’ (Kateb, 1963, p. 20); Tom Moylan draws the title of his 2000 study of dystopias, S…
Arcadian Ithaca
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
Book Review| August 01 2011 Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century Perloff, Marjorie, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 201 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 544. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305508 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Per…
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
Book Review| January 01 2010 Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 186 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 159. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-081 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tab…
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism
Book Review| January 01 2010 Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism Rhonda K. Garelick, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 246 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 157–158. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-078 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Introduction: The Promise of Apathy
This essay is the journal editor's introduction to part 3 of an ongoing symposium on quietism. With reference to writings of James Joyce, Francis Picabia, J. M. Coetzee, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Elaine Pagels, and Karen King-and with extended reference to Jonathan Lear's study of "cultural devastation," Radical Hope-Jeffrey Perl explores the possibility that the fear of anomie ("anomiphobia") is misplaced. He argues that, in comparison…
The Lack of Repose
In a dialogue whose precedents include Oscar Wilde's "Critic as Artist," two fictional professors of English take up the relationship between aestheticism and quietism. Their conversation begins with a debate on the necessity of treating sociopolitical contexts when teaching literature then moves to connections among aesthetic experience, political disengagement, inactivity, and contemplation explored by Wilde, Miguel de Molinos, Aristotle, Hanna…
The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects
Book Review| January 01 2008 The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects Charles Altieri, The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), 301 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 173. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D…
On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word
Book Review| August 01 2008 On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 288 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 502. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Searc…
Bad Modernisms
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
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The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
Bad Modernisms
The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects
Book Review| January 01 2008 The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects Charles Altieri, The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), 301 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 173. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D…
On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word
Book Review| August 01 2008 On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 288 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 502. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Searc…
Introduction: The Promise of Apathy
This essay is the journal editor's introduction to part 3 of an ongoing symposium on quietism. With reference to writings of James Joyce, Francis Picabia, J. M. Coetzee, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Elaine Pagels, and Karen King-and with extended reference to Jonathan Lear's study of "cultural devastation," Radical Hope-Jeffrey Perl explores the possibility that the fear of anomie ("anomiphobia") is misplaced. He argues that, in comparison…
The Lack of Repose
In a dialogue whose precedents include Oscar Wilde's "Critic as Artist," two fictional professors of English take up the relationship between aestheticism and quietism. Their conversation begins with a debate on the necessity of treating sociopolitical contexts when teaching literature then moves to connections among aesthetic experience, political disengagement, inactivity, and contemplation explored by Wilde, Miguel de Molinos, Aristotle, Hanna…
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
Book Review| January 01 2010 Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 186 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 159. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-081 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tab…
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism
Book Review| January 01 2010 Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism Rhonda K. Garelick, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 246 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 157–158. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-078 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Arcadian Ithaca
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
Book Review| August 01 2011 Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century Perloff, Marjorie, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 201 pp. Douglas Mao Douglas Mao Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 544. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305508 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Per…
The Point of It
This chapter is centrally concerned with two stories by E. M. Forster. One, ‘The Machine Stops’, has long been considered a classic of dystopian fiction. For George Kateb in Utopia and Its Enemies (1963), Forster’s story, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924) taken together give vent to ‘almost every fear that utopian ends arouse’ (Kateb, 1963, p. 20); Tom Moylan draws the title of his 2000 study of dystopias, S…
Rebecca West and the Origins of A Room of One's Own
This essay argues that Virginia Woolf's treatment of the wellsprings of valid art in A Room of One's Own (1929) is significantly indebted to Rebecca West's exploration of similar questions in “The Strange Necessity” (1928). Noting substantial evidence that Woolf was familiar with West's text by the time she wrote Room, the essay observes that both authors argue for the power of material conditions in art-making even as they work to deflect charge…
Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
Our Last September
Climate change is a phenomenon of modernity, but the technological enhancement of existence and the proliferating possibilities for the human future associated with modernness sit uneasily, at best, with the deteriorating conditions and narrowing of options for tolerable living that are anticipated for advanced climate change's regime. There is little doubt that climate change portends massive alterations to ways of living for virtually all of th…
Transcolonial Bildung: George Lamming, Social Death, and Actually Existing Modernism
This article begins by situating the semi-autobiographical narrator of George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin amid modernist representations of child philosophers at the imperial ‘periphery’ and in relation to the figure of the ‘scholarship boy’ elaborated by Richard Hoggart. It then examines the relation between modernism and exile in Lamming's writing in light of recent work on how Lamming's rise as an author was facilitated by a contest bet…
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice
Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, this book offers a striking new take on utopia's fundamental project. Noting that utopian imagining has often been propelled by an angry conviction that society is badly arranged, the book argues that utopia's essential aim has not been to secure happiness, order, or material goods, but rather to establish a condition of justice in which all ha…
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice
Afterword (A hundred flowers)
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