Shane Weller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shane Weller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shane |
| FAMILY NAME | Weller |
| SIGNATURE | WELLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Idea of Europe
There is an increasingly widespread sense that Europe is in crisis. Notions of a shared European identity and a common European culture appear to be losing their purchase. This crisis is often seen as a conflict between a cosmopolitan and a nationalist idea of Europe. The reality is, however, considerably more complex, as the long history of the idea of Europe reveals. In The Idea of Europe: A Critical History, Shane Weller explores that history …
Active Philology
In many respects, it is hard to imagine a critical voice more quintessentially French than that of Roland Barthes. From the early 1950s onwards, the focus of his published works remained largely French literature and culture. In addition to books on Michelet, Racine, Balzac, and Sollers, Barthes also devoted essays to a wide range of French writers, including La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Diderot, Sade, Chateaubriand, Fourier, Stendhal, Flaubert,…
From ‘Gedicht’ to ‘Genicht’
This article explores Paul Celan's critical engagement with late nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century language‐sceptical discourses and literary traditions. Through a close analysis of the various kinds of linguistic negativism deployed in his poetry between the 1940s and the late 1960s, the article seeks to demonstrate that Celan may be seen as a late modernist closely akin to Samuel Beckett in his attempt to achieve a paradoxical ‘Literatur …
Voidance
This article charts the shifting patterns of linguistic negativism in Maurice Blanchot's fiction, from his early works of the mid-1930s, through the novels of the 1940s, to the major récits from L'Arrêt de mort (1948) to L'Instant de ma mort (1994). Particular attention is paid to Blanchot's deployment of negative affixes and negative modifiers. This stylistic analysis provides the groundwork for my exploration of the 'voidance' of the semantic i…
Modernism and Nihilism
At the heart of some of the most influential strands of philosophical, political, and aesthetic modernism lies the conviction that modernity is fundamentally nihilistic. This book offers a wide-ranging critical history of the concept of nihilism from its origins in French Revolutionary discourse to its place in recent theorizations of the postmodern. Key moments in that history include the concept’s appropriation by political activists in mid-nin…
Literature and the Politics of Madness
Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity
If there is one key trait common to many of the most influential post-Holocaust theories of literature, it is arguably that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity that resists all dialectical mastery and that lies at the heart of a post-metaphysical ethics. Surprising as it might seem, the works of Samuel Beckett in particular have, for all their apparent negativity, repeatedly been deployed as exemplary of just such an aff…
In other words
Nothing to Be Said
One of the most significant ways in which much late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and philosophy may be distinguished from their predecessors is in their reliance upon the notion of ‘inexpressibility’ and the limits of the sayable. In this article, I seek not only to chart the history of this tradition, but also to reflect critically upon the use it makes of the concept of ‘the nothing’. For all their differences, in both Wit…
The Word Folly
2000). THE WORD FOLLY: Samuel Beckett's 'Comment Dire' ('What is the Word') Angelaki: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 165-180
From ‘Gedicht’ to ‘Genicht’
This article explores Paul Celan's critical engagement with late nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century language‐sceptical discourses and literary traditions. Through a close analysis of the various kinds of linguistic negativism deployed in his poetry between the 1940s and the late 1960s, the article seeks to demonstrate that Celan may be seen as a late modernist closely akin to Samuel Beckett in his attempt to achieve a paradoxical ‘Literatur …
Active Philology
In many respects, it is hard to imagine a critical voice more quintessentially French than that of Roland Barthes. From the early 1950s onwards, the focus of his published works remained largely French literature and culture. In addition to books on Michelet, Racine, Balzac, and Sollers, Barthes also devoted essays to a wide range of French writers, including La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Diderot, Sade, Chateaubriand, Fourier, Stendhal, Flaubert,…
The Word Folly
2000). THE WORD FOLLY: Samuel Beckett's 'Comment Dire' ('What is the Word') Angelaki: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 165-180
Nothing to Be Said
One of the most significant ways in which much late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and philosophy may be distinguished from their predecessors is in their reliance upon the notion of ‘inexpressibility’ and the limits of the sayable. In this article, I seek not only to chart the history of this tradition, but also to reflect critically upon the use it makes of the concept of ‘the nothing’. For all their differences, in both Wit…
In other words
Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity
If there is one key trait common to many of the most influential post-Holocaust theories of literature, it is arguably that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity that resists all dialectical mastery and that lies at the heart of a post-metaphysical ethics. Surprising as it might seem, the works of Samuel Beckett in particular have, for all their apparent negativity, repeatedly been deployed as exemplary of just such an aff…
Literature and the Politics of Madness
Modernism and Nihilism
At the heart of some of the most influential strands of philosophical, political, and aesthetic modernism lies the conviction that modernity is fundamentally nihilistic. This book offers a wide-ranging critical history of the concept of nihilism from its origins in French Revolutionary discourse to its place in recent theorizations of the postmodern. Key moments in that history include the concept’s appropriation by political activists in mid-nin…
Voidance
This article charts the shifting patterns of linguistic negativism in Maurice Blanchot's fiction, from his early works of the mid-1930s, through the novels of the 1940s, to the major récits from L'Arrêt de mort (1948) to L'Instant de ma mort (1994). Particular attention is paid to Blanchot's deployment of negative affixes and negative modifiers. This stylistic analysis provides the groundwork for my exploration of the 'voidance' of the semantic i…
From ‘Gedicht’ to ‘Genicht’
This article explores Paul Celan's critical engagement with late nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century language‐sceptical discourses and literary traditions. Through a close analysis of the various kinds of linguistic negativism deployed in his poetry between the 1940s and the late 1960s, the article seeks to demonstrate that Celan may be seen as a late modernist closely akin to Samuel Beckett in his attempt to achieve a paradoxical ‘Literatur …
Active Philology
In many respects, it is hard to imagine a critical voice more quintessentially French than that of Roland Barthes. From the early 1950s onwards, the focus of his published works remained largely French literature and culture. In addition to books on Michelet, Racine, Balzac, and Sollers, Barthes also devoted essays to a wide range of French writers, including La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Diderot, Sade, Chateaubriand, Fourier, Stendhal, Flaubert,…
The Idea of Europe
There is an increasingly widespread sense that Europe is in crisis. Notions of a shared European identity and a common European culture appear to be losing their purchase. This crisis is often seen as a conflict between a cosmopolitan and a nationalist idea of Europe. The reality is, however, considerably more complex, as the long history of the idea of Europe reveals. In The Idea of Europe: A Critical History, Shane Weller explores that history …
Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Samuel Beckett and Modernism (3 works) · Art history (2 works)