Paul A Bové

Biographic Data

ID374841
NAMEPaul A Bové
GIVEN NAMESPaul A
FAMILY NAMEBové
SIGNATUREBOVÉ P A
AFFILIATIONSindependent scholar
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Freedom: The Function of Criticism at All Times

    Paul A BovéARTICLEboundary 22023References: 18

    Literary disciplines’ loss of integrity began at the end of the Cold War and accelerated after the financial crisis of 2008–09 because of internal changes responding to external desires along with direct pressures from money and power. Academics follow the desires of moneyed and state interests away from the formation of critical humanists, removing key social values of judgment and self-formation from the ideals of humanistic education. Followin…

  • The end of the world as Arif showed us

    Paul A BovéARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2021References: 1

    Arif Dirlik was an independent critical intellectual who warned of the political and ecological catastrophes consequent upon the rise of the PRC under its current leadership and along the current path of development. He is an excellent example of the intellectual who accepts responsibilities larger than the ambitions of the academy and its iterative common sense

  • Snowpiercer as Anthropoetics

    Rob Wilson, Paul A BovéARTICLEboundary 22019Cited by: 3References: 9

    Crazed with extremity of affect, thriller action, and a cosmopolitical style as befits the Korean-global blockbuster mode of auteur production, Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film Snowpiercer also prods its audience to confront looming conditions of global warming, ecological disequilibrium, class and resource warfare, trans-species bonding, and the planetary horizon of the Anthropocene

  • But Then, What Is Culture

    George Solt, Rob Wilson et al.ARTICLEboundary 22019References: 4

    Reading Trespasses reminds us of Masao Miyoshi’s talent for asking deceptively simple questions and leading us down a path that leaves us with a deeper sense of crisis but also with new possibilities for imagining how to reconnect the dots

  • Introductory Note

    Paul A BovéARTICLEboundary 22017

  • Closing Remarks

    Paul A BovéARTICLEboundary 22012

    Criticism should take on board the traditions of Blackmur, Auerbach, and Said to deal philologically and lovingly with the human history recorded and created in the use of language. Poetry especially is the vestibule for critics who understand that categorical and conceptual knowledge is professionally and economically productive but imaginatively and humanely weak and undesirable. The various papers that made up this conference at UCLA illustrat…

  • Continuing the Conversation

    Paul Bové, Paul A Bové et al.ARTICLECritical Inquiry2005Cited by: 1

  • Can American Studies Be Area Studies?

    Open AccessPaul A BovéCHAPTERLearning Places2002

  • Rights Discourse in the Age of U.S./China Trade

    Paul A BovéARTICLENew Literary History2002

    New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2002

  • Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power

    Open AccessGayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jonathan Arac et al.BOOKEdward Said and the Work of the…2000

    For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as a fraud for his work on behalf of his fellow Palestinians, Said’s importance extends far beyond his political activism. In this volume a distinguished group of scholars assesses nearly every aspect of Said’s work—his contributions to postcolonial theory, his work on racism and ethnicity, h…

  • Should cultural studies take literature seriously

    Open AccessPaul A BovéARTICLECritical Quarterly1997

  • Intellectual Work in an Age of Transition

    Paul A BovéARTICLEYale journal of criticism/ The…1997

    Intellectual Work in an Age of Transition Paul A. Bové (bio) Holly Laird asked the editors who spoke to the CELJ at the MLA meeting in December 1996 to address the problems, frustrations, and pleasures that come with trying to move an established journal into new areas of study, especially as these involve increasingly interdisciplinary work and the necessity to attend to the diversity of literatures and cultures demanding attention. I have found…

  • Policing Thought: On Learning How to Read Henry Adams

    Paul Bové, Paul A BovéARTICLECritical Inquiry1997Cited by: 5

  • Giving Thought to America: Intellect and 'The Education of Henry Adams

    Paul A BovéARTICLECritical Inquiry1996Cited by: 4

  • Abandoning Knowledge: Disciplines, Discourse, Dogma

    Paul A BovéARTICLENew Literary History1994

    Indeed, it is still quoted in the tourist materials handed out by guides at Chartres. Yet, unlike HenryJames or T. S. Eliot, Adams never induced a critical school into being, or, to put it differently, there were never critical apologists for Adams's work. Borrowing a figure from Michel Foucault, we can say Adams has never been an initiator of discursive practice, as were Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche. What this means is that his work never set in m…

  • Hope and Reconciliation: A Review of Edward W. Said

    Paul A Bové, Edward W SaidARTICLEboundary 21993

  • Dante, Gramsci, and Cultural Criticism

    Open AccessPaul Bové, Paul A BovéARTICLERethinking Marxism1991References: 5

    (1991). Dante, Gramsci, and Cultural Criticism. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 74-86

  • Mask Plays: Theory, Cultural Studies, and the Fascist Imagination

    Daniel T O’hara, Daniel T O'Hara et al.ARTICLEboundary 21990

    The relation between theory and politics has been dominating critical discussion for some time now. Originally, calls for theory to demonstrate its utility in various struggles came from critics on the left, such as Edward W. Said and Frank Lentricchia.1 More recently, critics on the right such as Allan Bloom have repeated and elaborated, fantastically, earlier claims made by such different critics as Gerald Graff and M. H. Abrams. In Bloom's apo…

  • A Conversation with William V. Spanos

    Paul A Bové, William V SpanosARTICLEboundary 21990

  • Intellectuals in the University

    David R Shumway, Paul A Bové et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1990

  • Power and Freedom: Opposition and the Humanities

    Paul A BovéARTICLEOctober1990Cited by: 1

    With the publication of Discipline and Punish and the first volume of History of Sexuality, Foucault's critics begin to assert that his thinking about power, discipline, and the panopticon leaves no room for freedom or resistance to power. This line of criticism derives from the earlier charge that his archaeological method could not account for change. In Criticism Between System and Culture, for example, Edward Said argues that Foucault's work …

  • The Reception of Heidegger's Thought in American Literary Criticism

    Krzysztof Ziarek, Paul A Bové et al.ARTICLEdiacritics1989

  • Agriculture and Academe: America's Southern Question

    Paul A BovéARTICLEboundary 21986Cited by: 1

  • Poetic Thinking: An Approach to Heidegger

    Paul A Bové, David HalliburtonARTICLESubStance1984

  • Intellectuals at War: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power

    Paul A BovéARTICLESubStance1983

    Take the case of Michel Foucault. All of the dizzying chaos that we call the humanities can be seen cavorting around him and his name. He is involved in so many areas and issues in criticism, history, politics, and the social sciences that honest men and women find it hard to study or work in any of these fields without stumbling across him if only to kick him aside. Foucault is immensely plastic. Scholars seem to make whatever they want of him, …