Michael Wainwright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Wainwright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Wainwright |
| SIGNATURE | WAINWRIGHT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6559-2161 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Strains of Attachment
Employing Bowlby's attachment theory, this article traces the prescience of Faulkner's Pylon. In March 1935, Faulkner's novel—a tale of a barnstorming pilot, his wife, and their parentally deprived son—appears in print. That same year, Bowlby reads Ian Suttie's The Origins of Love and Hate, whose approach to psychological maturation offers a Darwinian alternative to Freud's doctrine of drives. Bowlby develops this alternative perspective into att…
Game Theory and Minorities in American Literature
This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American literature: minoritarian texts. Fittingly, John von Neumann's game theory
Game Theory and Postwar American Literature
If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann, is to prove worthy of literary he
On Faulkner’s Rousseauan “A Bear Hunt”
Despite complaining to a reporter from the New York Herald Tribune in November 1931 that the bookstore in his hometown of Oxford, Lafayette County, “only sells school-books” (20), William Faulkner was, as Willie Morris chronicles, “extraordinarily well-read, finding in Conrad, Melville, Mann, Balzac, Joyce, and others the inspiration to perform dazzling experiments in style” (“Faulkner’s Mississippi” 321). Oxford lawyer Phil Stone had encouraged …
Too Far Gone
This article uses Jacques Lacan’s reading of the Freudian fort-dagame to analyze that most American of cultural constructs, the cowboy, at the time of that figure’s fading from the American landscape: the immediate postwar years. With John Grady Cole, the protagonist of All the Pretty Horses (1992), Cormac McCarthy provides a suitably situated subject for this critical endeavor, one whose subjective characteristics become present through dramatic…
Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic
This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Sha
A Stiff Man-Child Walking
Working from Jacques Derrida’s contentions about secrecy and authorial responsibility, and paying brief but specific attention to Charles Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie” (1869), as suggested by Derridean concerns over capitalist economics, this article studies the manner in which the inviolable and conditional secrets of William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” (1938) reveal the poststructural tendencies avant la lettre of this leading American moderni…
Sherlock Holmes and Game Theory
This essay reanalyzes the game theory interpretation by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem." The usefulness of this interdisciplinary hermeneutic is then supplemented by lateral and philosophical thinking as prompted by subsequent tales involving Doyle's detective
Sherlock Holmes and Game Theory
This essay reanalyzes the game theory interpretation by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem." The usefulness of this interdisciplinary hermeneutic is then supplemented by lateral and philosophical thinking as prompted by subsequent tales involving Doyle's detective
Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic
This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Sha
A Stiff Man-Child Walking
Working from Jacques Derrida’s contentions about secrecy and authorial responsibility, and paying brief but specific attention to Charles Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie” (1869), as suggested by Derridean concerns over capitalist economics, this article studies the manner in which the inviolable and conditional secrets of William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” (1938) reveal the poststructural tendencies avant la lettre of this leading American moderni…
Sherlock Holmes and Game Theory
This essay reanalyzes the game theory interpretation by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem." The usefulness of this interdisciplinary hermeneutic is then supplemented by lateral and philosophical thinking as prompted by subsequent tales involving Doyle's detective
Game Theory and Minorities in American Literature
This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American literature: minoritarian texts. Fittingly, John von Neumann's game theory
Game Theory and Postwar American Literature
If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann, is to prove worthy of literary he
On Faulkner’s Rousseauan “A Bear Hunt”
Despite complaining to a reporter from the New York Herald Tribune in November 1931 that the bookstore in his hometown of Oxford, Lafayette County, “only sells school-books” (20), William Faulkner was, as Willie Morris chronicles, “extraordinarily well-read, finding in Conrad, Melville, Mann, Balzac, Joyce, and others the inspiration to perform dazzling experiments in style” (“Faulkner’s Mississippi” 321). Oxford lawyer Phil Stone had encouraged …
Too Far Gone
This article uses Jacques Lacan’s reading of the Freudian fort-dagame to analyze that most American of cultural constructs, the cowboy, at the time of that figure’s fading from the American landscape: the immediate postwar years. With John Grady Cole, the protagonist of All the Pretty Horses (1992), Cormac McCarthy provides a suitably situated subject for this critical endeavor, one whose subjective characteristics become present through dramatic…
Strains of Attachment
Employing Bowlby's attachment theory, this article traces the prescience of Faulkner's Pylon. In March 1935, Faulkner's novel—a tale of a barnstorming pilot, his wife, and their parentally deprived son—appears in print. That same year, Bowlby reads Ian Suttie's The Origins of Love and Hate, whose approach to psychological maturation offers a Darwinian alternative to Freud's doctrine of drives. Bowlby develops this alternative perspective into att…
Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Game theory (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Mathematical economics (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)