Tristram Wolff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tristram Wolff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tristram |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolff |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFF T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9025-6159 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lyric Exposure
This article examines how lyric conventions put specific features of everyday language to work, and more precisely, how rhetorical forms of address can produce the effect of lyric exposure, positioning the reader in social space. Drawing comparatively on the romantic poetry of John Keats, it argues that contemporary poets Claudia Rankine and Erica Hunt experiment with the parameters of lyric address to reframe poetry as a site of exchange. Bringi…
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism
In this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction to the “uprooted word,” or the formal analytic used to classify languages in progressive time according to a primitivist …
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism
Conclusion: Deracination
The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday
Being Several: Reading Blake with Ed Roberson
This essay takes the issue’s temporal prompt—“Romanticism, Now and Then”—as a chance to think about forms of rhythmic and rhetorical self-difference in the poetry of William Blake, read by way of the poetry of Ed Roberson. Both are poets who present the reader with overlapping forms of time in human and natural worlds. I draw on social theories (Du Bois, Mead, Fabian, Silva) and critical reading practices (Reed, Terada) that train the reader’s at…
Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic
Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic Tristram Wolff oh if the wind were a voice I could contend with. . . but I am moving only very slowly -Alice Oswald, "Autobiography of a Stone"1 i. holding on to matter If Alice Oswald's poem animates stone by giving it a curiously vulnerable voice, her experiment is inverted in a well-known image from Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty, where a propositional voice turns into a markedly vulner…
Talking with Texts
This article considers how the essayistic style of William Hazlitt's printed texts produces, in its form, a critique of what it considers conservatism in speech and its uncritical reception. Situating Hazlitt in a longer history of thought that considers language a form of practical activity, I argue that the conversational character of Hazlitt's writing is calculated not to resemble speech, but rather to take aim at speech's false spontaneity
Afterword
In closing the special issue "Language-in-Use," this afterword briefly reflects on the shared work of the essays gathered here. It then considers how a renewed relation with the critical perspectives of fields like linguistic anthropology and ethnopoetics might diversify concepts available for the study and practice of close reading by relocating form in affectively and culturally charged situations of social emergence
The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday
Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic
Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic Tristram Wolff oh if the wind were a voice I could contend with. . . but I am moving only very slowly -Alice Oswald, "Autobiography of a Stone"1 i. holding on to matter If Alice Oswald's poem animates stone by giving it a curiously vulnerable voice, her experiment is inverted in a well-known image from Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty, where a propositional voice turns into a markedly vulner…
Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic
Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic Tristram Wolff oh if the wind were a voice I could contend with. . . but I am moving only very slowly -Alice Oswald, "Autobiography of a Stone"1 i. holding on to matter If Alice Oswald's poem animates stone by giving it a curiously vulnerable voice, her experiment is inverted in a well-known image from Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty, where a propositional voice turns into a markedly vulner…
Talking with Texts
This article considers how the essayistic style of William Hazlitt's printed texts produces, in its form, a critique of what it considers conservatism in speech and its uncritical reception. Situating Hazlitt in a longer history of thought that considers language a form of practical activity, I argue that the conversational character of Hazlitt's writing is calculated not to resemble speech, but rather to take aim at speech's false spontaneity
Afterword
In closing the special issue "Language-in-Use," this afterword briefly reflects on the shared work of the essays gathered here. It then considers how a renewed relation with the critical perspectives of fields like linguistic anthropology and ethnopoetics might diversify concepts available for the study and practice of close reading by relocating form in affectively and culturally charged situations of social emergence
The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday
Being Several: Reading Blake with Ed Roberson
This essay takes the issue’s temporal prompt—“Romanticism, Now and Then”—as a chance to think about forms of rhythmic and rhetorical self-difference in the poetry of William Blake, read by way of the poetry of Ed Roberson. Both are poets who present the reader with overlapping forms of time in human and natural worlds. I draw on social theories (Du Bois, Mead, Fabian, Silva) and critical reading practices (Reed, Terada) that train the reader’s at…
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism
In this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction to the “uprooted word,” or the formal analytic used to classify languages in progressive time according to a primitivist …
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism
Conclusion: Deracination
Lyric Exposure
This article examines how lyric conventions put specific features of everyday language to work, and more precisely, how rhetorical forms of address can produce the effect of lyric exposure, positioning the reader in social space. Drawing comparatively on the romantic poetry of John Keats, it argues that contemporary poets Claudia Rankine and Erica Hunt experiment with the parameters of lyric address to reframe poetry as a site of exchange. Bringi…
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