Lindsay Waters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Waters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Waters |
| SIGNATURE | WATERS L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To Become What One Is
In the twentieth century, criticism flourished in the academy in the English language from the 1930s to the 1960s, but gradually a hyperprofessionalized discourse purporting to be criticism took its place. The problem was exacerbated because people misunderstand literary theory thinking it superior to criticism. Big mistake. Theory proper begins its life as criticism, criticism that has staying power. Central to criticism as Kant argued is judgme…
The Becoming of a Nonelite Critic
This essay focuses on the way James Wolcott might remind us what a critic can do to make a difference in the world by responding to artworks directly and emotionally. Wolcott started to fight the academics right from the beginning and still does so occasionally. The war between academics and critics that Wolcott engaged in at the outset of his career was not necessary but was a way for him to pursue his own idea of how critics should do their job…
Why Lucretius Now? Beginning the Case against Atomism
In his recent book The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of how the recovery of “On the Nature of Things,” by Lucretius, sparked the Renaissance and ultimately changed the direction of human thought. The focus of Greenblatt’s study is Lucretius’s atomism, an idea he claims was radically subversive. But why should we need, or even be interested in, Lucretius now? Greenblatt’s narrative is not new, and in it he misinterprets the role atomi…
The Recovery of the Literal
In this essay, Waters highlights a characteristic of Renaissance humanism long acknowledged but always in need of renewed appreciation: the way that some people gave new attention to the literal, the minute, and the particular. The implications of this shift were so radical they turned the world upside down, making possible, even imperative to some, the overthrow of monarchs; the circumnavigation of a globe, the roundness of which had not been un…
Confucianism, Humanism, and Human Rights
Although Westerners are apt to say, without much on-the-ground knowledge of China, that China's population is irredeemably conformist, in fact both Chinese and American societies have a strong inclination to conformism, which is why great American thinkers have, again and again, through the life of the Republic, condemned that propensity to submit to government authority and the opinion of the majority. The Chinese praise the rebel against author…
Is Now the Time for Paul de Man? An Address to Members of the Modern Language Association on the Twentieth Anniversary of Paul de Man's Death
Research Article| August 01 2005 Is Now the Time for Paul de Man? An Address to Members of the Modern Language Association on the Twentieth Anniversary of Paul de Man's Death Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-3-1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fac…
Apparatus
Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say
Research Article| February 01 2003 Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say: Listening in a State of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin, Elvis Presley, and Robert Christgau Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 199–212. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-1-199 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation…
The Age of Incommensurability
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Age of Incommensurability Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 133–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-2-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lindsay Waters; The Age of Incommensurability. boundary 2 1 May 2001; 28 (2): 133–172. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2…
In Responses Begins Responsibility
Pour une démocratie sans bornes. Le cas américain
Critical Writings, 1953-1978
Turn the Dial
Scholarly publishing is undergoing something of a transformation, and it is a very healthy transformation. The results will be good for both scholars and publishers. Presses that develop programs to anticipate scholars' needs will prosper. In the halcyon days of the sixties some scholarly publishers could perhaps wait and react to what came in unsolicited. In more recent times the publisher might go after big names and reject all the rest. Over t…
On Deconstruction
Infinite Jest
L'altre stelle
The "Desultory Rhyme" of Don Juan
Byron claimed to be influenced by the Italians when he wrote Don Juan, and that claim has become a critical truism. Byron's most astute contemporary critic Francis Jeffrey found the familiar, lively, conversational style of Byron's Juanesque manner brilliant, but foreign.' The Italian who Byron claimed most significantly influenced him was Luigi Pulci, a poet in the court of Lorenzo de' Medici.2 The tributes to Pulci in the text of Don Juan and i…
The Age of Incommensurability
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Age of Incommensurability Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 133–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-2-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lindsay Waters; The Age of Incommensurability. boundary 2 1 May 2001; 28 (2): 133–172. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2…
Confucianism, Humanism, and Human Rights
Although Westerners are apt to say, without much on-the-ground knowledge of China, that China's population is irredeemably conformist, in fact both Chinese and American societies have a strong inclination to conformism, which is why great American thinkers have, again and again, through the life of the Republic, condemned that propensity to submit to government authority and the opinion of the majority. The Chinese praise the rebel against author…
L'altre stelle
The "Desultory Rhyme" of Don Juan
Byron claimed to be influenced by the Italians when he wrote Don Juan, and that claim has become a critical truism. Byron's most astute contemporary critic Francis Jeffrey found the familiar, lively, conversational style of Byron's Juanesque manner brilliant, but foreign.' The Italian who Byron claimed most significantly influenced him was Luigi Pulci, a poet in the court of Lorenzo de' Medici.2 The tributes to Pulci in the text of Don Juan and i…
L'altre stelle
The "Desultory Rhyme" of Don Juan
Byron claimed to be influenced by the Italians when he wrote Don Juan, and that claim has become a critical truism. Byron's most astute contemporary critic Francis Jeffrey found the familiar, lively, conversational style of Byron's Juanesque manner brilliant, but foreign.' The Italian who Byron claimed most significantly influenced him was Luigi Pulci, a poet in the court of Lorenzo de' Medici.2 The tributes to Pulci in the text of Don Juan and i…
Infinite Jest
On Deconstruction
Turn the Dial
Scholarly publishing is undergoing something of a transformation, and it is a very healthy transformation. The results will be good for both scholars and publishers. Presses that develop programs to anticipate scholars' needs will prosper. In the halcyon days of the sixties some scholarly publishers could perhaps wait and react to what came in unsolicited. In more recent times the publisher might go after big names and reject all the rest. Over t…
Critical Writings, 1953-1978
Pour une démocratie sans bornes. Le cas américain
In Responses Begins Responsibility
The Age of Incommensurability
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Age of Incommensurability Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 133–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-2-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lindsay Waters; The Age of Incommensurability. boundary 2 1 May 2001; 28 (2): 133–172. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2…
Apparatus
Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say
Research Article| February 01 2003 Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say: Listening in a State of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin, Elvis Presley, and Robert Christgau Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 199–212. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-1-199 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation…
Is Now the Time for Paul de Man? An Address to Members of the Modern Language Association on the Twentieth Anniversary of Paul de Man's Death
Research Article| August 01 2005 Is Now the Time for Paul de Man? An Address to Members of the Modern Language Association on the Twentieth Anniversary of Paul de Man's Death Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-3-1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fac…
Confucianism, Humanism, and Human Rights
Although Westerners are apt to say, without much on-the-ground knowledge of China, that China's population is irredeemably conformist, in fact both Chinese and American societies have a strong inclination to conformism, which is why great American thinkers have, again and again, through the life of the Republic, condemned that propensity to submit to government authority and the opinion of the majority. The Chinese praise the rebel against author…
The Recovery of the Literal
In this essay, Waters highlights a characteristic of Renaissance humanism long acknowledged but always in need of renewed appreciation: the way that some people gave new attention to the literal, the minute, and the particular. The implications of this shift were so radical they turned the world upside down, making possible, even imperative to some, the overthrow of monarchs; the circumnavigation of a globe, the roundness of which had not been un…
Why Lucretius Now? Beginning the Case against Atomism
In his recent book The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of how the recovery of “On the Nature of Things,” by Lucretius, sparked the Renaissance and ultimately changed the direction of human thought. The focus of Greenblatt’s study is Lucretius’s atomism, an idea he claims was radically subversive. But why should we need, or even be interested in, Lucretius now? Greenblatt’s narrative is not new, and in it he misinterprets the role atomi…
The Becoming of a Nonelite Critic
This essay focuses on the way James Wolcott might remind us what a critic can do to make a difference in the world by responding to artworks directly and emotionally. Wolcott started to fight the academics right from the beginning and still does so occasionally. The war between academics and critics that Wolcott engaged in at the outset of his career was not necessary but was a way for him to pursue his own idea of how critics should do their job…
To Become What One Is
In the twentieth century, criticism flourished in the academy in the English language from the 1930s to the 1960s, but gradually a hyperprofessionalized discourse purporting to be criticism took its place. The problem was exacerbated because people misunderstand literary theory thinking it superior to criticism. Big mistake. Theory proper begins its life as criticism, criticism that has staying power. Central to criticism as Kant argued is judgme…
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