Kent Puckett

Biographic Data

ID362866
NAMEKent Puckett
GIVEN NAMESKent
FAMILY NAMEPuckett
SIGNATUREPUCKETT K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • How to Read The Pentagon Papers

    Kent PuckettARTICLENOVEL A Forum on Fiction2022

    This essay understands what it meant and what it means to read The Pentagon Papers in a few related ways. First, when it appeared in 1971, there were at least three different versions of the Papers available. Because, in other words, the reader had to choose between versions from the very start, The Pentagon Papers had to be read both as a text and as a textual event. Second, although the Papers are often remembered as an unmediated document dump…

  • War Pictures

    Open AccessKent PuckettBOOKWar Pictures2020

  • Pistol’s Two Bodies

    Open AccessKent PuckettCHAPTERWar Pictures2020

  • Rand Narratology

    Kent PuckettARTICLERepresentations2020Cited by: 2

    RAND Narratology" looks at the unlikely historical and aesthetic overlap between narrative theory and strategic defense thinking in the middle part of the twentieth century. Looking at the many writings and frankly odd intellectual styles of nuclear war planners working at the RAND Corporation, the essay examines the unexpected play between the material facts of intellectual history, the obscure but nonetheless real force of narrative desire, and…

  • Postscript

    Open AccessKent PuckettARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2019References: 6

    This new section of Victorian Literature and Culture focuses on apparently minor works of criticism, works that have fallen out of view but that might deserve another look. I want to talk about an almost aggressively minor instance of very Victorian scholarship, minor not only because it isn't often read but also because minorness is built into its very design: E. P. Thompson's “Postscript: 1976,” a longish essay that followed the second and revi…

  • Democracy

    Open AccessKent PuckettARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2018

    W E have plenty of reasons to think about democracy just now. In ways that would have seemed frankly unimaginable a year or two ago, reference is being routinely made to the authoritarian and maybe inexorable decay of democratic norms in the otherwise staid opinion pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and even USA Today. Just a month ago, E. J. Dionne (neither an alarmist nor a revolutionary) wrote about our Trumpian moment, "Democra…

  • War Pictures

    Open AccessKent PuckettBOOKWar Pictures2017

    In addition to thinking through some political and strategic paradoxes immanent to the British experience of total war, I'll also argue that the films on which I focus engage with an even more difficult wartime idea.Where from a certain view one can imagine that particular wars are responsible for particular periods of conflict and violence-that wars cause violence-the films I discuss entertain, largely at the level of style, the sobering possibi…

  • War Pictures

    Open AccessKent PuckettBOOKWar Pictures2017

    In 'War Pictures', Puckett looks at how Britain imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime. How did the material and conceptual pressures of total war affect what it meant to see or to make art? How did culture and, in particular, cinema function as propaganda, as criticism, as a form of self-analysis, as a reflection on war and the kinds of violence it tends to unleash? How did British filmmakers, writers, critics, and politic…

  • Narrative Theory

    Open AccessKent PuckettBOOKNarrative Theory2016Cited by: 11

    Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction provides an account of a methodology increasingly central to literary studies, film studies, history, psychology and beyond. In addition to introducing readers to some of the field's major figures and their ideas, Puckett situates critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative within a longer intellectual history. The book reveals one of narrative theory's founding claims - that na…

  • Search Forum

    Kent PuckettARTICLERepresentations2014

    Research Article| August 01 2014 Search Forum: Introduction Kent Puckett Kent Puckett KENT PUCKETT is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford, 2008). He is at work on two projects: one on close reading and another on British war cinema. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2014) 1…

  • Celia Johnson's Face

    Kent PuckettARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2011

    Research Article| September 01 2011 Celia Johnson's Face Kent Puckett Kent Puckett University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Kent Puckett, associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford University Press, 2008), is a 2011 winner of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award. He's currently engaged in a study of cinematic style in …

  • What's the Import

    Kent PuckettARTICLEVictorian Studies2008

    Reviewed by: What's the Import?: Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice Kent Puckett (bio) What's the Import?: Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice, by Kerry McSweeney; pp. 177. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007, $45.00. Kerry McSweeney's What's the Import? offers a methodological alternative to what he sees as a problematic "transformation of literary studies over the past th…

  • The Life and Death and Death of Colonel Blimp

    Kent PuckettARTICLECritical Inquiry2008Cited by: 1References: 3