Giles Gunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giles Gunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giles |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunn |
| SIGNATURE | GUNN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion and Cultural Studies
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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
Journal Article Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. By Walter Benn Michaels. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. xii, 186 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-1700-1.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 660, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945042 Published: 01 S…
Response to Robert Westbrook
I WANT TO THANK THE EDITORS OF AMERICAN QUARTERLY FOR PROVIDING ME with an opportunity to respond to Robert Westbrook's review of my book, Thinking across the American Grain.' Though normally reluctant to reply to reviews, even when I believe they have seriously misrepresented my views, I feel that Robert Westbrook's screed on A New Pragmatism raises too many important issues to leave it unanswered. One could, I suppose, dismiss some of my concer…
A New Pragmatism
FEW BOOKS HAVE SHAKEN UP CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL LIFE AS much as Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), and nothing was more astonishing about that book than its assertion that John Dewey ranked with Wittgenstein and Heidegger as the three most important philosophers of our century. Over the last decade, Rorty has repeated-and on occasion even argued for-this estimate of Dewey's significance while developing a of his own de…
Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism
In Thinking Across the American Grain Giles Gunn makes a major contribution to the current revival of pragmatism in America by showing how it provides the most critically resilient and constructive response to the intellectual challenges of postmodernism. Gunn reclaims and refurbishes elements of the pragmatic tradition that either have been lost or have undergone important changes and shows how newer critical approaches have strong roots in the …
Bakhtin, the Critics, and Folklore
American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession
Journal Article American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession. By Kermit Vanderbilt. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. xxii + 609 pp. $34.95.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 508–509, https://doi.org/10.23…
A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After
A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950
The Literary and Cultural Study of Religion: Problems and Prospects
THE LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDY OF RELIGION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS Get access GILES GUNN GILES GUNN *Professor of English and of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Dr. Gunn presented this paper as a Scholars Press Associates Lecture at the 75th Anniversary meeting (1984) of the American Academy of Religion Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of …
The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance . Phillip F. Gura
Waldo Emerson: A Biography
Journal Article Waldo Emerson: A Biography. By Gay Wilson Allen. (New York: Viking, 1981. XXV + 751 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $25.00.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 697–698, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903171 Published: 01 December 1982
On the Relation Between Theology and Art In the Work of Gordon D. Kaufman
Journal Article On the Relation Between Theology and Art In the Work of Gordon D. Kaufman Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn Giles Gunn is Chairman of American Studies and Professor of Religion and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill He is the author of F O Matthiessen The Critical Achievement (1975) and The Interpretation of Otherness Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination (1979), and has edited Literatu…
Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society
The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination
Studies the ways in which imaginative literature expresses religious meaning and considers the contribution of literary criticism to religious scholarship, maintaining that a reciprocity exists between literature and religion
Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot
The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
F. O. Matthiessen: The Critical Achievement
American Religious Traditions
Journal Article AMERICAN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS Get access The American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation. Edited by SACVAN BERCOVITCHNew York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. viii+265 pages. $3.95. L.C No. 73-94136. GILES GUNN GILES GUNN University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 3, September 1975, Pages…
Threading the Eye of the Needle: The Place of the Literary Critic in Religious Studies
The sentiment expressed in these lines is one which is very likely to overtake anyone who gives serious thought to issues raised by subtitle of this paper. To judge from recent literature on subject, justification of place of literary critic in field of religious studies has eluded most everyone who has turned his hand to it. Valiant attempts there have been, of course, and in abundance; one finds everywhere such articles and monographs as Religi…
The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America. Cushing Strout
Henry James, Senior: American Eccentric or American Original
American Religious History
Journal Article AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY Get access The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman: A Library of Protestant Thought. Edited by PHILLIPS P. MOULTON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xv+336 pages. Appendix, bibliography, notes. $10.50. L.C. No. 71-171970 GILES GUNN GILES GUNN University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI,…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby and the Imagination of Wonder
Journal Article F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby and the Imagination of Wonder Get access GILES GUNN GILES GUNN GILES B. GUNN (Ph.D., Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Religion and Literature in The Divinity School and the Department of English at The University of Chicago. He has recently edited a volume of critical essays entitled Literature and Religion. A shorter version of this essay was presented as a paper at the annual meeting of the AAR, he…
Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism
In Thinking Across the American Grain Giles Gunn makes a major contribution to the current revival of pragmatism in America by showing how it provides the most critically resilient and constructive response to the intellectual challenges of postmodernism. Gunn reclaims and refurbishes elements of the pragmatic tradition that either have been lost or have undergone important changes and shows how newer critical approaches have strong roots in the …
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
Journal Article Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. By Walter Benn Michaels. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. xii, 186 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-1700-1.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 660, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945042 Published: 01 S…
A New Pragmatism
FEW BOOKS HAVE SHAKEN UP CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL LIFE AS much as Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), and nothing was more astonishing about that book than its assertion that John Dewey ranked with Wittgenstein and Heidegger as the three most important philosophers of our century. Over the last decade, Rorty has repeated-and on occasion even argued for-this estimate of Dewey's significance while developing a of his own de…
Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers . J. Hillis Miller
Criticism as Repossession and Responsibility: F. O. Matthiessen and the Ideal Critic
Literature and Its Relation to Religion
American Religious History
Journal Article AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY Get access The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman: A Library of Protestant Thought. Edited by PHILLIPS P. MOULTON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. xv+336 pages. Appendix, bibliography, notes. $10.50. L.C. No. 71-171970 GILES GUNN GILES GUNN University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI,…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby and the Imagination of Wonder
Journal Article F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby and the Imagination of Wonder Get access GILES GUNN GILES GUNN GILES B. GUNN (Ph.D., Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Religion and Literature in The Divinity School and the Department of English at The University of Chicago. He has recently edited a volume of critical essays entitled Literature and Religion. A shorter version of this essay was presented as a paper at the annual meeting of the AAR, he…
Henry James, Senior: American Eccentric or American Original
American Religious Traditions
Journal Article AMERICAN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS Get access The American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation. Edited by SACVAN BERCOVITCHNew York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. viii+265 pages. $3.95. L.C No. 73-94136. GILES GUNN GILES GUNN University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 3, September 1975, Pages…
Threading the Eye of the Needle: The Place of the Literary Critic in Religious Studies
The sentiment expressed in these lines is one which is very likely to overtake anyone who gives serious thought to issues raised by subtitle of this paper. To judge from recent literature on subject, justification of place of literary critic in field of religious studies has eluded most everyone who has turned his hand to it. Valiant attempts there have been, of course, and in abundance; one finds everywhere such articles and monographs as Religi…
The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America. Cushing Strout
F. O. Matthiessen: The Critical Achievement
The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination
Studies the ways in which imaginative literature expresses religious meaning and considers the contribution of literary criticism to religious scholarship, maintaining that a reciprocity exists between literature and religion
Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society
Waldo Emerson: A Biography
Journal Article Waldo Emerson: A Biography. By Gay Wilson Allen. (New York: Viking, 1981. XXV + 751 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $25.00.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 697–698, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903171 Published: 01 December 1982
On the Relation Between Theology and Art In the Work of Gordon D. Kaufman
Journal Article On the Relation Between Theology and Art In the Work of Gordon D. Kaufman Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn Giles Gunn is Chairman of American Studies and Professor of Religion and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill He is the author of F O Matthiessen The Critical Achievement (1975) and The Interpretation of Otherness Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination (1979), and has edited Literatu…
The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance . Phillip F. Gura
The Literary and Cultural Study of Religion: Problems and Prospects
THE LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDY OF RELIGION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS Get access GILES GUNN GILES GUNN *Professor of English and of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Dr. Gunn presented this paper as a Scholars Press Associates Lecture at the 75th Anniversary meeting (1984) of the American Academy of Religion Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of …
American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession
Journal Article American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession. By Kermit Vanderbilt. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. xxii + 609 pp. $34.95.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 508–509, https://doi.org/10.23…
A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After
A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950
Bakhtin, the Critics, and Folklore
Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism
In Thinking Across the American Grain Giles Gunn makes a major contribution to the current revival of pragmatism in America by showing how it provides the most critically resilient and constructive response to the intellectual challenges of postmodernism. Gunn reclaims and refurbishes elements of the pragmatic tradition that either have been lost or have undergone important changes and shows how newer critical approaches have strong roots in the …
A New Pragmatism
FEW BOOKS HAVE SHAKEN UP CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL LIFE AS much as Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), and nothing was more astonishing about that book than its assertion that John Dewey ranked with Wittgenstein and Heidegger as the three most important philosophers of our century. Over the last decade, Rorty has repeated-and on occasion even argued for-this estimate of Dewey's significance while developing a of his own de…
Response to Robert Westbrook
I WANT TO THANK THE EDITORS OF AMERICAN QUARTERLY FOR PROVIDING ME with an opportunity to respond to Robert Westbrook's review of my book, Thinking across the American Grain.' Though normally reluctant to reply to reviews, even when I believe they have seriously misrepresented my views, I feel that Robert Westbrook's screed on A New Pragmatism raises too many important issues to leave it unanswered. One could, I suppose, dismiss some of my concer…
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