Timothy Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3852637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
David Foster Wallace, Both Professional and Not
Professionals—athletes, journalists, and accountants—feature prominently in the work of David Foster Wallace, remarkable for their single-minded focus on a specialised task. While Wallace finds much to admire in the ideology of professionalism, he is deeply ambivalent about the professional status of the writer and the professionalising effects of academic creative writing. Wallace’s essays, his short fiction, and his novel The Pale King often pr…
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, takes place in new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. Offering a comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the new century, this collection highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American p…
Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
Wittgenstein, Pedagogy, and Literary Criticism
Both literary critics and philosophers have sought to use the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to provide a firmer foundation for the way we talk about literature. These attempts have generally fallen short in their attempts to extract a positive theory of literature and reading from Wittgenstein. In working through some of Wittgenstein's remarks on music and poetry in Zettel , I suggest that Wittgenstein does not give us a "new" way of reading,…
Has Asian American Studies Failed
Has Asian American Studies Failed? Timothy Yu (bio) In late December 2011, I uploaded a post to my blog titled “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”1 The immediate impetus for my post was an article in the New York Times that contained some shockingly ignorant statements about the internment of Japanese Americans. But it turned into a longer piece that took in the “Tiger Mom” controversy and other media depictions (or distortions) of Asian America…
Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Literature (review)
Race and the Avant-Garde
A groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American writing, Timothy Yu juxtaposes the works of experimental language poets and Asian American poets—concerned primarily with issues of social identity centered around discourses of race. Yu delves into the 1960s social upheaval to trace how Language and…
The Hand of a Chinese Master
Journal Article "The Hand of a Chinese Master": José Garcia Villa and Modernist Orientalism Get access Timothy Yu Timothy Yu 1Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141794 Published: 01 March 2004
The Hand of a Chinese Master
Journal Article "The Hand of a Chinese Master": José Garcia Villa and Modernist Orientalism Get access Timothy Yu Timothy Yu 1Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141794 Published: 01 March 2004
Wittgenstein, Pedagogy, and Literary Criticism
Both literary critics and philosophers have sought to use the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to provide a firmer foundation for the way we talk about literature. These attempts have generally fallen short in their attempts to extract a positive theory of literature and reading from Wittgenstein. In working through some of Wittgenstein's remarks on music and poetry in Zettel , I suggest that Wittgenstein does not give us a "new" way of reading,…
Has Asian American Studies Failed
Has Asian American Studies Failed? Timothy Yu (bio) In late December 2011, I uploaded a post to my blog titled “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”1 The immediate impetus for my post was an article in the New York Times that contained some shockingly ignorant statements about the internment of Japanese Americans. But it turned into a longer piece that took in the “Tiger Mom” controversy and other media depictions (or distortions) of Asian America…
The Hand of a Chinese Master
Journal Article "The Hand of a Chinese Master": José Garcia Villa and Modernist Orientalism Get access Timothy Yu Timothy Yu 1Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141794 Published: 01 March 2004
Race and the Avant-Garde
A groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American writing, Timothy Yu juxtaposes the works of experimental language poets and Asian American poets—concerned primarily with issues of social identity centered around discourses of race. Yu delves into the 1960s social upheaval to trace how Language and…
Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Literature (review)
Has Asian American Studies Failed
Has Asian American Studies Failed? Timothy Yu (bio) In late December 2011, I uploaded a post to my blog titled “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”1 The immediate impetus for my post was an article in the New York Times that contained some shockingly ignorant statements about the internment of Japanese Americans. But it turned into a longer piece that took in the “Tiger Mom” controversy and other media depictions (or distortions) of Asian America…
Wittgenstein, Pedagogy, and Literary Criticism
Both literary critics and philosophers have sought to use the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to provide a firmer foundation for the way we talk about literature. These attempts have generally fallen short in their attempts to extract a positive theory of literature and reading from Wittgenstein. In working through some of Wittgenstein's remarks on music and poetry in Zettel , I suggest that Wittgenstein does not give us a "new" way of reading,…
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, takes place in new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. Offering a comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the new century, this collection highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American p…
Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
David Foster Wallace, Both Professional and Not
Professionals—athletes, journalists, and accountants—feature prominently in the work of David Foster Wallace, remarkable for their single-minded focus on a specialised task. While Wallace finds much to admire in the ideology of professionalism, he is deeply ambivalent about the professional status of the writer and the professionalising effects of academic creative writing. Wallace’s essays, his short fiction, and his novel The Pale King often pr…
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