Kevin Pask
Biographic Data
| ID | 387180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Pask |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Pask |
| SIGNATURE | PASK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Situation: A Narrative Concept
This article draws upon the rich and diverse history of situation to develop a new tool for narrative analysis across media and form. The term has played a role in theater, creative writing, and screenwriting; as situatedness, it has been linked to the categories of identity; and it has been used to chart relations between social and aesthetic experience. Seizing upon the way situation emphasizes emergent dynamics, we theorize it as a narrative c…
Resistance to Teaching
The Teaching Archive is to reconnect the classroom with some important achievements of the century of academic literary criticism since the 1920s. In this brief response, I focus on what is less often an explicit item on the course syllabus, but which nevertheless informs many syllabi: the critical judgment which underlies the canon of university study. Literary criticism, as opposed to literary scholarship (to the extent they can be opposed) was…
The Fairy Way of Writing: Shakespeare to Tolkien
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare's plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase way of to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales and superstitions. Beginning with Chaucer, Johnson, Dryden, and Milton, Pask argues that the fairy way of writing not onl…
Mosaics of American Nationalism
Annealed through expansionism after the Civil War, could America’s sectional divisions re-emerge if the empire falters? Kevin Pask explores the changing parameters—closing frontiers, rising Sunbelt—of the nationalism that dares not speak its name
National Domesticity: “The Fairy Way of Writing”
Michael McKeon’s The Secret History of Domesticity is a powerful account of early modern culture partly because of its abandonment of the traditional (Marxist) association of domesticity with the bourgeoisie. However, the book’s scrupulous avoidance of anachronistic ideological terms of analysis also seems to entail a relative lack of interest in nationalism, which is arguably emerging in the period. This paper argues for the relevance of the eme…
Caliban's Masque
The relationship of Prospero and Caliban in William Shakespeare's The Tempest is a key instance for postcolonial readings of Renaissance texts. This essay uses theatrical and literary history to nuance such readings, emphasizing Shakespeare's revision of the hierarchical character of Ben Jonson's early court masques. In this reading, Caliban can sometimes appear as a suppressed version of Shakespeare's own theatricality. Subsequently--and partly …
Plagiarism and the Originality of National Literature: Gerard Langbaine
The history of national literary canons has recently become a subject of considerable interest to literary historians, and that interest itself suggests the somewhat frayed conceptual monopoly of national literature as an organizational principle of literary scholarship. 1 The literary history of the national canon inevitably confronts an earlier pan-European culture of Latinitas against and through which the national vernaculars asserted their d…
Late Nationalism: The Case of Quebec
The developed world has its own national movements, encased within Spain, the UK and Canada, which have set out to gain the classical objective of independence. How far is their timing likely to affect their trajectory? Kevin Pask considers the example of a postmodern Quebec
The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe
Caliban's Masque
The relationship of Prospero and Caliban in William Shakespeare's The Tempest is a key instance for postcolonial readings of Renaissance texts. This essay uses theatrical and literary history to nuance such readings, emphasizing Shakespeare's revision of the hierarchical character of Ben Jonson's early court masques. In this reading, Caliban can sometimes appear as a suppressed version of Shakespeare's own theatricality. Subsequently--and partly …
Plagiarism and the Originality of National Literature: Gerard Langbaine
The history of national literary canons has recently become a subject of considerable interest to literary historians, and that interest itself suggests the somewhat frayed conceptual monopoly of national literature as an organizational principle of literary scholarship. 1 The literary history of the national canon inevitably confronts an earlier pan-European culture of Latinitas against and through which the national vernaculars asserted their d…
The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe
Late Nationalism: The Case of Quebec
The developed world has its own national movements, encased within Spain, the UK and Canada, which have set out to gain the classical objective of independence. How far is their timing likely to affect their trajectory? Kevin Pask considers the example of a postmodern Quebec
Plagiarism and the Originality of National Literature: Gerard Langbaine
The history of national literary canons has recently become a subject of considerable interest to literary historians, and that interest itself suggests the somewhat frayed conceptual monopoly of national literature as an organizational principle of literary scholarship. 1 The literary history of the national canon inevitably confronts an earlier pan-European culture of Latinitas against and through which the national vernaculars asserted their d…
Caliban's Masque
The relationship of Prospero and Caliban in William Shakespeare's The Tempest is a key instance for postcolonial readings of Renaissance texts. This essay uses theatrical and literary history to nuance such readings, emphasizing Shakespeare's revision of the hierarchical character of Ben Jonson's early court masques. In this reading, Caliban can sometimes appear as a suppressed version of Shakespeare's own theatricality. Subsequently--and partly …
National Domesticity: “The Fairy Way of Writing”
Michael McKeon’s The Secret History of Domesticity is a powerful account of early modern culture partly because of its abandonment of the traditional (Marxist) association of domesticity with the bourgeoisie. However, the book’s scrupulous avoidance of anachronistic ideological terms of analysis also seems to entail a relative lack of interest in nationalism, which is arguably emerging in the period. This paper argues for the relevance of the eme…
Mosaics of American Nationalism
Annealed through expansionism after the Civil War, could America’s sectional divisions re-emerge if the empire falters? Kevin Pask explores the changing parameters—closing frontiers, rising Sunbelt—of the nationalism that dares not speak its name
The Fairy Way of Writing: Shakespeare to Tolkien
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare's plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase way of to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales and superstitions. Beginning with Chaucer, Johnson, Dryden, and Milton, Pask argues that the fairy way of writing not onl…
Resistance to Teaching
The Teaching Archive is to reconnect the classroom with some important achievements of the century of academic literary criticism since the 1920s. In this brief response, I focus on what is less often an explicit item on the course syllabus, but which nevertheless informs many syllabi: the critical judgment which underlies the canon of university study. Literary criticism, as opposed to literary scholarship (to the extent they can be opposed) was…
Situation: A Narrative Concept
This article draws upon the rich and diverse history of situation to develop a new tool for narrative analysis across media and form. The term has played a role in theater, creative writing, and screenwriting; as situatedness, it has been linked to the categories of identity; and it has been used to chart relations between social and aesthetic experience. Seizing upon the way situation emphasizes emergent dynamics, we theorize it as a narrative c…
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