Alexander Gelley
Biographic Data
| ID | 410933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Gelley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelley |
| SIGNATURE | GELLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kurt W. Forster. Aby Warburgs Kulturwissenschaft: Ein Blick in die Abgründe der Bilder
Kurt W. Forster. Aby Warburgs Kulturwissenschaft: Ein Blick in die Abgründe der Bilder ." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 96(1), pp. 87–88
The Speech of Dasein: Heidegger and Quotidian Discourse
Martin Heidegger's denunciation of Gerede (idle talk) in §35 of Sein und Zeit is scathing: “Idle talk is constituted in this gossiping and passing the word along, a process by which its initial lack of grounds to stand on increases to complete groundlessness.” But how might this concept be understood in relation, for example, to Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of the dialogic and heteroglossia or to the notion of discours as it has been developed by Émile…
Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening
"In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a 'macrocosmic journey' of the individual sleeper to 'the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.' Benjamin's effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central …
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice: Historical Perspectives
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
Contexts of the Aesthetic in Walter Benjamin
MLN - Volume 114, Number 5, December 1999 (Comparative Literature Issue)
Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity
In "Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity," Alexander Gelley explores the complex and often paradoxical role of examples in rhetorical discourse. He argues that examples, while seemingly straightforward illustrations of a general principle, possess an inherent instability that can challenge and even subvert the very arguments they are meant to support. Gelley examines a wide range of examples, from literary texts and philosophical treat…
Novalis, Miscellaneous Remarks: Introduction
T WAS at Friedrich Schlegel's request that Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) offered a collection of 125 aphorisms for the new periodical, Athendium. Schlegel published them in the first issue in 1798, though not precisely in the form in which Novalis had sent them. Consistent with the principle of Symphilosophie that characterized the Jena group, Schlegel broke up certain fragments to give them a more pointed turn, omitted a few (used subsequen…
Novalis Miscellaneous Remarks [Original Version of Pollen]
1. We seek everywhere the unconditioned [das Unbedingte] and always find merely conditions [Dinge].3 2. Designation by means of sounds and lines is an admirable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me-a few marks a million objects. How easy it becomes to handle the universe in this fashion! how visible the concentric form of the world of spirit! the doctrine of language [die Sprachlehre] is the dynamic force of the spiritual realm! A word…
Response to Commentaries
Metonymy, Schematism, and the Space of Literature
W v HAT IS THE RELATION between the language of literary analysis and the language of the text that the subject of analysis? At the most general level we face here the problem evoked by Jacques Derrida La Mythologie blanche: how to account for a structure of metaphor within a philosophical tradition that itself constituted by (in the double sense of its origins in and is immanently organized terms of) that same structure? His succinct formulation…
The Two Julies: Conversion and Imagination in La Nouvelle Heloise
Form as Force
Ernst Robert Curtius: Topology and Critical Method
On the one hand Curtius belongs to that tradition of literary essayists, German in language but European in outlook, that has its source in the Schlegel brothers.1 Here the critical essay was cultivated as a distinct literary genre. Adapting a mot of Friedrich Schlegel, Curtius has written, Criticism is the of literature. Or more specifically: criticism is that form of whose subject matter is literature (KE, 33).2 Curtius's own style is personal …
Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity
In "Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity," Alexander Gelley explores the complex and often paradoxical role of examples in rhetorical discourse. He argues that examples, while seemingly straightforward illustrations of a general principle, possess an inherent instability that can challenge and even subvert the very arguments they are meant to support. Gelley examines a wide range of examples, from literary texts and philosophical treat…
Ernst Robert Curtius: Topology and Critical Method
On the one hand Curtius belongs to that tradition of literary essayists, German in language but European in outlook, that has its source in the Schlegel brothers.1 Here the critical essay was cultivated as a distinct literary genre. Adapting a mot of Friedrich Schlegel, Curtius has written, Criticism is the of literature. Or more specifically: criticism is that form of whose subject matter is literature (KE, 33).2 Curtius's own style is personal …
Ernst Robert Curtius: Topology and Critical Method
On the one hand Curtius belongs to that tradition of literary essayists, German in language but European in outlook, that has its source in the Schlegel brothers.1 Here the critical essay was cultivated as a distinct literary genre. Adapting a mot of Friedrich Schlegel, Curtius has written, Criticism is the of literature. Or more specifically: criticism is that form of whose subject matter is literature (KE, 33).2 Curtius's own style is personal …
Form as Force
The Two Julies: Conversion and Imagination in La Nouvelle Heloise
Response to Commentaries
Metonymy, Schematism, and the Space of Literature
W v HAT IS THE RELATION between the language of literary analysis and the language of the text that the subject of analysis? At the most general level we face here the problem evoked by Jacques Derrida La Mythologie blanche: how to account for a structure of metaphor within a philosophical tradition that itself constituted by (in the double sense of its origins in and is immanently organized terms of) that same structure? His succinct formulation…
Novalis, Miscellaneous Remarks: Introduction
T WAS at Friedrich Schlegel's request that Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) offered a collection of 125 aphorisms for the new periodical, Athendium. Schlegel published them in the first issue in 1798, though not precisely in the form in which Novalis had sent them. Consistent with the principle of Symphilosophie that characterized the Jena group, Schlegel broke up certain fragments to give them a more pointed turn, omitted a few (used subsequen…
Novalis Miscellaneous Remarks [Original Version of Pollen]
1. We seek everywhere the unconditioned [das Unbedingte] and always find merely conditions [Dinge].3 2. Designation by means of sounds and lines is an admirable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me-a few marks a million objects. How easy it becomes to handle the universe in this fashion! how visible the concentric form of the world of spirit! the doctrine of language [die Sprachlehre] is the dynamic force of the spiritual realm! A word…
Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity
In "Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity," Alexander Gelley explores the complex and often paradoxical role of examples in rhetorical discourse. He argues that examples, while seemingly straightforward illustrations of a general principle, possess an inherent instability that can challenge and even subvert the very arguments they are meant to support. Gelley examines a wide range of examples, from literary texts and philosophical treat…
Contexts of the Aesthetic in Walter Benjamin
MLN - Volume 114, Number 5, December 1999 (Comparative Literature Issue)
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice: Historical Perspectives
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening
"In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a 'macrocosmic journey' of the individual sleeper to 'the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.' Benjamin's effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central …
The Speech of Dasein: Heidegger and Quotidian Discourse
Martin Heidegger's denunciation of Gerede (idle talk) in §35 of Sein und Zeit is scathing: “Idle talk is constituted in this gossiping and passing the word along, a process by which its initial lack of grounds to stand on increases to complete groundlessness.” But how might this concept be understood in relation, for example, to Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of the dialogic and heteroglossia or to the notion of discours as it has been developed by Émile…
Kurt W. Forster. Aby Warburgs Kulturwissenschaft: Ein Blick in die Abgründe der Bilder
Kurt W. Forster. Aby Warburgs Kulturwissenschaft: Ein Blick in die Abgründe der Bilder ." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 96(1), pp. 87–88
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