Patrick Bray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Bray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Bray |
| SIGNATURE | BRAY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5811-7565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zakir Paul, Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism
How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory
Anxious Influencers – Reading the Nineteenth Century in 2021
Looking at the conditions of academic work in nineteenth-century French literature as well as the foundations of the discipline of literary studies, this article argues that the study of literature in an historical context allows for a flexibility in conceptual frameworks. Readings attentive to the anxiety of overinterpreting the past, creating the possibility for us to compare the differences between historical ways of ordering perception, that …
Balzac and the Chagrin of Theory
Balzac and the Chagrin of Theory Patrick M. Bray “Une œuvre où il y a des théories est comme un objet sur lequel on laisse la marque du prix.”1 HONORÉ DE BALZAC’S 1831 NOVEL La peau de chagrin presents the reader with a baffling array of theories on subjects ranging from willpower and mechanics to politics and medicine. The ‘theoreticians’ competing for narrative legitimacy are nearly as diverse as the theories they expound: the narrator, Raphaël…
The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
thank all of them for their encouragement, their careful reading, and especially for their patience in correcting my myriad typographical whims and rhetorical fl ights of fancy.My editor, Henry Carrigan Jr., deserves special thanks for
Deleuze's Spider, Proust's Narrator
Gilles Deleuze's conclusion to Proust et les signes proposes that the Proustian narrator is as blind as a spider. This would seem to amount to a problematization of the theorizing aspect of the novel, of the narrator as theorist, since “theory,” from the Greek theorein, to view, implies the capacity to visualize a problem, to see the outward aspect of an object. I argue by following Deleuze's convoluted thread and comparing his text to references…
The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
thank all of them for their encouragement, their careful reading, and especially for their patience in correcting my myriad typographical whims and rhetorical fl ights of fancy.My editor, Henry Carrigan Jr., deserves special thanks for
Deleuze's Spider, Proust's Narrator
Gilles Deleuze's conclusion to Proust et les signes proposes that the Proustian narrator is as blind as a spider. This would seem to amount to a problematization of the theorizing aspect of the novel, of the narrator as theorist, since “theory,” from the Greek theorein, to view, implies the capacity to visualize a problem, to see the outward aspect of an object. I argue by following Deleuze's convoluted thread and comparing his text to references…
Deleuze's Spider, Proust's Narrator
Gilles Deleuze's conclusion to Proust et les signes proposes that the Proustian narrator is as blind as a spider. This would seem to amount to a problematization of the theorizing aspect of the novel, of the narrator as theorist, since “theory,” from the Greek theorein, to view, implies the capacity to visualize a problem, to see the outward aspect of an object. I argue by following Deleuze's convoluted thread and comparing his text to references…
The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
thank all of them for their encouragement, their careful reading, and especially for their patience in correcting my myriad typographical whims and rhetorical fl ights of fancy.My editor, Henry Carrigan Jr., deserves special thanks for
Balzac and the Chagrin of Theory
Balzac and the Chagrin of Theory Patrick M. Bray “Une œuvre où il y a des théories est comme un objet sur lequel on laisse la marque du prix.”1 HONORÉ DE BALZAC’S 1831 NOVEL La peau de chagrin presents the reader with a baffling array of theories on subjects ranging from willpower and mechanics to politics and medicine. The ‘theoreticians’ competing for narrative legitimacy are nearly as diverse as the theories they expound: the narrator, Raphaël…
Anxious Influencers – Reading the Nineteenth Century in 2021
Looking at the conditions of academic work in nineteenth-century French literature as well as the foundations of the discipline of literary studies, this article argues that the study of literature in an historical context allows for a flexibility in conceptual frameworks. Readings attentive to the anxiety of overinterpreting the past, creating the possibility for us to compare the differences between historical ways of ordering perception, that …
How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory
Zakir Paul, Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism
French Literature and Criticism (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)