Alan Wilde
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Wilde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilde |
| SIGNATURE | WILDE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Once and Future Novel: Letters to [email protected]
Der amerikanische Roman nach 1945
Postmodernism and the Missionary Position
Horizons of Assent: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Ironic Imagination
Strange Displacements of the Ordinary: Apple, Elkin, Barthelme, and the Problem of the Excluded Middle
Of course one knew it hadn't died-had glimpsed it at the supermarket, observed it at the movies, was aware of it wheezing in one's livingroom. But it had surely seen its best days, had, as one of the specialists on the case observed, shifted from the peaks to the deadly plains of contemporary literature.' On the other hand, and as later events showed, one ought to have been more observant, ought to have taken in the significance of the signs, sca…
Writing about Postmodern Writing
Irony in the Postmodern Age: Toward a Map of Suspensiveness
Surfacings: Reflections on the Epistemology of Late Modernism
Writing to Isherwood after he had twice read Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Forster expressed, along with much admiration and enjoyment, a slight hesitancy, a hint of polite discomfort. It was not, he suggested, altogether [his] sort of book, because, as he went on to explain, it ...dwells on the contradictions rather than the complexities of character, and seems to reveal people facet by facet whereas The Memorial if my memory serves tackled strata.…
Barthelme Unfair to Kierkegaard: Some Thoughts on Modern and Postmodern Irony
Irony has taken some hard knocks from lately, a victim of its association with modernist strategies and theories. The reaction is understandable enough, given the urgent desire in recent years to proclaim the emergence of a new sensibility. When the mood is for manifestoes and declarations of independence, oedipal impulses typically direct themselves against the central assumptions of the previous generation or, alternately, push forward claims o…
Barthelme Unfair to Kierkegaard: Some Thoughts on Modern and Postmodern Irony
Irony has taken some hard knocks from lately, a victim of its association with modernist strategies and theories. The reaction is understandable enough, given the urgent desire in recent years to proclaim the emergence of a new sensibility. When the mood is for manifestoes and declarations of independence, oedipal impulses typically direct themselves against the central assumptions of the previous generation or, alternately, push forward claims o…
Irony in the Postmodern Age: Toward a Map of Suspensiveness
Surfacings: Reflections on the Epistemology of Late Modernism
Writing to Isherwood after he had twice read Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Forster expressed, along with much admiration and enjoyment, a slight hesitancy, a hint of polite discomfort. It was not, he suggested, altogether [his] sort of book, because, as he went on to explain, it ...dwells on the contradictions rather than the complexities of character, and seems to reveal people facet by facet whereas The Memorial if my memory serves tackled strata.…
Strange Displacements of the Ordinary: Apple, Elkin, Barthelme, and the Problem of the Excluded Middle
Of course one knew it hadn't died-had glimpsed it at the supermarket, observed it at the movies, was aware of it wheezing in one's livingroom. But it had surely seen its best days, had, as one of the specialists on the case observed, shifted from the peaks to the deadly plains of contemporary literature.' On the other hand, and as later events showed, one ought to have been more observant, ought to have taken in the significance of the signs, sca…
Writing about Postmodern Writing
Horizons of Assent: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Ironic Imagination
Postmodernism and the Missionary Position
Der amerikanische Roman nach 1945
The Once and Future Novel: Letters to [email protected]
Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Postmodernism (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Irony (2 works)