Alan Gibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Gibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbs |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2337-0771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Exonerative Deterministic
This article examines the resurgence of an especially deterministic form of naturalism in contemporary American culture, which can be linked to particular attributes of neoliberalism. In particular, neoliberal power is shown to have been exercised partly through what the author terms “exonerative determinism,” a discourse whereby those in power claim to have been forced by outside circumstances into morally dubious policies. Two neo-naturalist te…
New Television as Neo-Naturalism
This article examines The Wire (HBO, 2002–8) and The Shield (FX, 2002–8) and the extent to which they employ particular attributes of new television in order to engage with notions of determined behaviour familiar from literary naturalism (and, through them, important contemporary political ideologies). The Wire and The Shield are part of a growing body of neo-naturalist works in contemporary American culture. Like Dexter and Breaking Bad, they p…
Decolonizing Trauma Studies Round-Table Discussion
This round-table, which featured literary critics Professor Stef Craps, Professor Bryan Cheyette and Dr. Alan Gibbs, was recorded as part of the “Decolonizing Trauma Studies” symposium organized by Dr. Sonya Andermahr and Dr. Larissa Allwork at The School of The Arts, The University of Northampton (15 May 2015). Convened a week after the University of Zaragoza’s “Memory Frictions” conference, where Cheyette, Gibbs, Andermahr and Allwork gave pape…
Maybe that's what happens if you touch the Doctor, even for a second”
When the BBC television series Doctor Who returned in 2005, this followed an absence of 16 years (barring the 1996 TV movie starring Paul McGann). During this hiatus theories associated with trauma were widely disseminated in the West. Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was first defined in 1980 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the term’s preeminence was in its infancy at the time of the cancellation of the original run …
Glissando Harmonies
Bartok's Tempos
Organ Music of Our Century 11
Maybe that's what happens if you touch the Doctor, even for a second”
When the BBC television series Doctor Who returned in 2005, this followed an absence of 16 years (barring the 1996 TV movie starring Paul McGann). During this hiatus theories associated with trauma were widely disseminated in the West. Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was first defined in 1980 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the term’s preeminence was in its infancy at the time of the cancellation of the original run …
New Television as Neo-Naturalism
This article examines The Wire (HBO, 2002–8) and The Shield (FX, 2002–8) and the extent to which they employ particular attributes of new television in order to engage with notions of determined behaviour familiar from literary naturalism (and, through them, important contemporary political ideologies). The Wire and The Shield are part of a growing body of neo-naturalist works in contemporary American culture. Like Dexter and Breaking Bad, they p…
Organ Music of Our Century 11
Bartok's Tempos
Glissando Harmonies
Maybe that's what happens if you touch the Doctor, even for a second”
When the BBC television series Doctor Who returned in 2005, this followed an absence of 16 years (barring the 1996 TV movie starring Paul McGann). During this hiatus theories associated with trauma were widely disseminated in the West. Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was first defined in 1980 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the term’s preeminence was in its infancy at the time of the cancellation of the original run …
Decolonizing Trauma Studies Round-Table Discussion
This round-table, which featured literary critics Professor Stef Craps, Professor Bryan Cheyette and Dr. Alan Gibbs, was recorded as part of the “Decolonizing Trauma Studies” symposium organized by Dr. Sonya Andermahr and Dr. Larissa Allwork at The School of The Arts, The University of Northampton (15 May 2015). Convened a week after the University of Zaragoza’s “Memory Frictions” conference, where Cheyette, Gibbs, Andermahr and Allwork gave pape…
The Exonerative Deterministic
This article examines the resurgence of an especially deterministic form of naturalism in contemporary American culture, which can be linked to particular attributes of neoliberalism. In particular, neoliberal power is shown to have been exercised partly through what the author terms “exonerative determinism,” a discourse whereby those in power claim to have been forced by outside circumstances into morally dubious policies. Two neo-naturalist te…
New Television as Neo-Naturalism
This article examines The Wire (HBO, 2002–8) and The Shield (FX, 2002–8) and the extent to which they employ particular attributes of new television in order to engage with notions of determined behaviour familiar from literary naturalism (and, through them, important contemporary political ideologies). The Wire and The Shield are part of a growing body of neo-naturalist works in contemporary American culture. Like Dexter and Breaking Bad, they p…
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Naturalism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)