David Spurr
Biographic Data
| ID | 401070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Spurr |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Spurr |
| SIGNATURE | SPURR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Joyce in the Fold, the Fold in Joyce
James Joyce's work has many folded documents, bodies, clothing, souls—and these objects often contain a mystery within their folds, literal and figurative. In the story “An Encounter,” the strange man met in a field at Ringsend tells the young narrator how he would love to whip a boy “as if he were unfolding some elaborate mystery” (Dubliners 20). In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus feels “his own soul going forth to exper…
Literature Journey Westward
Frank Shovlin, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2012, 180 pp, £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781846318238 This elegantly written and illuminating study of Joyce's Dubliners is a powerful argument f
Architecture and Modern Literature
Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the…
La comédie de l'intolérance chez Proust et Joyce
La satire contre l'antisémitisme, chez Proust comme chez Joyce, prend une envergure comique qui finit par mettre en cause non seulement l'intolérance, mais encore le caractère totalisant de toute idéologie. Malgré leurs différences de style et de sujet, les deux écrivains déploient un langage qui cherche à déstabiliser les idées reçues, même celles de gens bien-pensants. Cette déstabilisation se manifeste sous forme d'une multiplicité de niveaux …
Writing in the Wake of Empire
MLN - Volume 111, Number 5, December 1996 (Comparative Literature Issue)
The Rhetoric of Empire
The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world. Despite…
T. S. Eliot
La Distinction
This article reviews Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of Judgement, focusing on its key arguments about the relationship between social class and aesthetic taste. Bourdieu argues that taste is not innate but rather a product of social conditioning, serving as a marker of social distinction and reinforcing existing power structures. The book explores how different social classes develop distinct aesthetic preferences, analyzing a w…
La Distinction
This article reviews Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of Judgement, focusing on its key arguments about the relationship between social class and aesthetic taste. Bourdieu argues that taste is not innate but rather a product of social conditioning, serving as a marker of social distinction and reinforcing existing power structures. The book explores how different social classes develop distinct aesthetic preferences, analyzing a w…
Architecture and Modern Literature
Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the…
La Distinction
This article reviews Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of Judgement, focusing on its key arguments about the relationship between social class and aesthetic taste. Bourdieu argues that taste is not innate but rather a product of social conditioning, serving as a marker of social distinction and reinforcing existing power structures. The book explores how different social classes develop distinct aesthetic preferences, analyzing a w…
T. S. Eliot
The Rhetoric of Empire
The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world. Despite…
Writing in the Wake of Empire
MLN - Volume 111, Number 5, December 1996 (Comparative Literature Issue)
La comédie de l'intolérance chez Proust et Joyce
La satire contre l'antisémitisme, chez Proust comme chez Joyce, prend une envergure comique qui finit par mettre en cause non seulement l'intolérance, mais encore le caractère totalisant de toute idéologie. Malgré leurs différences de style et de sujet, les deux écrivains déploient un langage qui cherche à déstabiliser les idées reçues, même celles de gens bien-pensants. Cette déstabilisation se manifeste sous forme d'une multiplicité de niveaux …
Architecture and Modern Literature
Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the…
Literature Journey Westward
Frank Shovlin, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2012, 180 pp, £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781846318238 This elegantly written and illuminating study of Joyce's Dubliners is a powerful argument f
Joyce in the Fold, the Fold in Joyce
James Joyce's work has many folded documents, bodies, clothing, souls—and these objects often contain a mystery within their folds, literal and figurative. In the story “An Encounter,” the strange man met in a field at Ringsend tells the young narrator how he would love to whip a boy “as if he were unfolding some elaborate mystery” (Dubliners 20). In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus feels “his own soul going forth to exper…
Art (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Modernist Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · History and criticism (2 works) · Law (2 works)