Daniel T O'Hara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4532264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel T O'Hara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel T |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Hara |
| SIGNATURE | HARA D T O |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Temple University , Pennsylvania , USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Geoffrey Hartman Reader
And All the Ceremonies to Come: Of High Modernism and Visionary Violence
A review of Michael Wood's Yeats and Violence (2010) and Alain Badiou's Five Lessons on Wagner (2010), this article argues that Wood, by not taking the occult seriously in Yeats, mistakes his general imaginative project, which, as Badiou argues concerning Wagner, is to discover a viable modern form of public ceremony that incorporates the transcendental and supernatural into fully immanent forms that are never pro forma but ever disruptive of hab…
On the Philological Imagination: A Brief Introduction
Research Article| August 01 2010 On the Philological Imagination: A Brief Introduction Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2010-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; On the Philological Imagination: A Brief Introduction. boundary 2 1 August 2010; …
Of Love and Death in Modern Culture: Rereading “Doctor Faustus” with Freud in Mind
Research Article| July 01 2010 OF LOVE AND DEATH IN MODERN CULTURE: Rereading “Doctor Faustus” with Freud in Mind Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2010) 93 (1-2): 117–140. https://doi.org/10.2307/41200921 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; OF LOVE AND DEATH IN MODERN CULTURE: Rereading “Docto…
The Vision of Voice in James and Hitchcock: An Experiment in Reading
We read comparatively two acts of self-revision, James's transformation of his 1896 novel The Other House (based on an 1893 dramatic scenario) into a 1909 play and Hitchcock's two film versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956). Based on Lacanian psychoanalysis, we argue that both artists seek in their different acts of critical reading the best ways to materialize the visionary operations of voice by giving it greater aesthetic and ethic…
Another Avatar of the Circle: Philip Rieff's Counter-Enlightenment
The essay examines two interrelated questions with respect to the work and career of Philip Rieff: (1) why does the career have the anomalous shape that it does, and (2) does this situation have anything to do with the claim throughout Rieff's work, but especially in his last work, that the sacred in human society always entails interdicts, that is, imperative sacrifices of satisfactions in the name of what somehow counts more for the society
Badiou's Truth and the Office of the Critic: Naming the Militant Multiples of the Void
Research Article| February 01 2008 Badiou's Truth and the Office of the Critic: Naming the Militant Multiples of the Void Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 169–175. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Badiou's Truth and the Office of the Criti…
The Aesthetics of Minor Affects”: The Other Modernity
Research Article| February 01 2007 “The Aesthetics of Minor Affects”: The Other Modernity Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 197–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-032 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; “The Aesthetics of Minor Affects”: The Other Modernity. boundary 2 1 Februa…
The Cry of Its Occasion”: On the Subject of Truth; Or, the Terror in Global Terrorism
Research Article| May 01 2007 “The Cry of Its Occasion”: On the Subject of Truth; Or, the Terror in Global Terrorism Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 55–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-003 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permi…
Ecce Homo”: Nietzsche's Two Natures
Research Article| December 01 2007 “ECCE HOMO”: Nietzsche's Two Natures Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2007) 90 (3-4): 273–283. https://doi.org/10.2307/41179158 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; “ECCE HOMO”: Nietzsche's Two Natures. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 December 2007; …
Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imagination
Research Article| February 01 2006 Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imagination Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 61–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-33-1-61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imaginati…
Bringing Out the Terror: James Purdy and the Culture of Vision
Research Article| May 01 2006 Bringing Out the Terror: James Purdy and the Culture of Vision Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 75–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Bringing Out the Terror: James Purdy and the Culture of Vision. boundary …
Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision of Amor Fati
Research Article| August 01 2006 Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision of Amor Fati Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision …
On the Culture of the Real: A Response to Lindsay Waters's Critical Reflections on the Case of Paul de Man
Research Article| August 01 2005 On the Culture of the Real: A Response to Lindsay Waters's Critical Reflections on the Case of Paul de Man Daniel T. O'Hara; Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gina Masucci MacKenzie Gina Masucci MacKenzie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 37–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-3-37 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of the“ Post/Human” Imagination
Research Article| August 01 2003 Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of the“ Post/Human” Imagination Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 107–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-3-107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of t…
Modernism's Global Identity: On the Dogmatic Imagination in Yeats, Freud, and Beyond
Daniel T. O'Hara, Modernism's Global Identity: On the Dogmatic Imagination in Yeats, Freud, and Beyond, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 25, No. 3/4, Global Freud: Psychoanalytic Cultures and Classic Modernism (Summer, 2002), pp. 1-13
The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions, and Recent Lacanian Studies
Research Article| May 01 2002 The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions, and Recent Lacanian Studies Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 87–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-87 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions, and Recent Lacanian St…
The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 53–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-2-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella. boundary 2 1 May 2001; 28 (2): 53–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903…
Not “Too Good to Be True: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self-Education
Research Article| February 01 2000 Not “Too Good to Be True”: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self-Education Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 175–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-1-175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Not “Too Good to Be True”: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self…
The Return to Ethics: A Report from the Front
For many years now-or so it seems-American literary study has focused on an oppositional ideal. Cornel West has dubbed it new cultural politics of difference.' This oppositional ideal virtually requires, as if it were a latter-day categorical imperative for American critics, a formal maxim to direct critical practice. It would go something like this: that the self-representations, in all cultural media, of previously marginalized and repressed su…
Henry James's Version of Judgment
A sentence from Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil guides my thinking: The 'work,' whether of artist or philosopher, invents man who has created it, who is supposed to have created it.1 As entire passage makes clear, this ironic work of (self-)invention also arises in cases of the great statesman, conqueror, discoverer (BGE, 218). All of these figures are invented and disguised by their creations, often beyond recognition (BGE, 218). Consequently, …
Lentricchia's Frankness
Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault
A persistent criticism of theory in general and of Foucault in particular is that no positive social or ethical consequences result from the practice of theory. Critics from all points on the political spectrum seem to agree on this point. Daniel O'Hara here demonstrates the social uses of interpretation by analyzing the later writings of Foucault and the careers of critics in relation to Foucault's work, including Derrida, Kristeva, Said, Rorty,…
Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault
Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
Another Avatar of the Circle: Philip Rieff's Counter-Enlightenment
The essay examines two interrelated questions with respect to the work and career of Philip Rieff: (1) why does the career have the anomalous shape that it does, and (2) does this situation have anything to do with the claim throughout Rieff's work, but especially in his last work, that the sacred in human society always entails interdicts, that is, imperative sacrifices of satisfactions in the name of what somehow counts more for the society
Badiou's Truth and the Office of the Critic: Naming the Militant Multiples of the Void
Research Article| February 01 2008 Badiou's Truth and the Office of the Critic: Naming the Militant Multiples of the Void Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 169–175. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Badiou's Truth and the Office of the Criti…
Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of the“ Post/Human” Imagination
Research Article| August 01 2003 Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of the“ Post/Human” Imagination Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 107–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-3-107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of t…
The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 53–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-2-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella. boundary 2 1 May 2001; 28 (2): 53–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903…
Not “Too Good to Be True: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self-Education
Research Article| February 01 2000 Not “Too Good to Be True”: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self-Education Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 175–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-1-175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Not “Too Good to Be True”: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self…
Lentricchia's Frankness
Revisionary Madness: The Prospects of American Literary Theory at the Present Time
The Designated Light: Irony in Emily Dickinson ("Dare You See a Soul at the White Heat?")
Daniel T. O'Hara, "The Designated Light": Irony in Emily Dickinson ("Dare You See a Soul at the White Heat?"), boundary 2, Vol. 7, No. 3, Revisions of the Anglo-American Tradition: Part 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 175-198
The Irony of Being Metaphorical
Tragic Knowledge: Yeats’S Autobiography and Hermeneutics
The Prophet of Our Laughter: Or Nietzsche As-Educator
Revisionary Madness: The Prospects of American Literary Theory at the Present Time
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen out of Desire
Discusses the difficult style of Wallace Stevens, looks at his major themes, and analyzes, in detail, several of his poems
Blindness and insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of contemporary criticism
(1986). Blindness and insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of contemporary criticism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 202-203
Mask Plays: Theory, Cultural Studies, and the Fascist Imagination
The relation between theory and politics has been dominating critical discussion for some time now. Originally, calls for theory to demonstrate its utility in various struggles came from critics on the left, such as Edward W. Said and Frank Lentricchia.1 More recently, critics on the right such as Allan Bloom have repeated and elaborated, fantastically, earlier claims made by such different critics as Gerald Graff and M. H. Abrams. In Bloom's apo…
The Poetics of Critical Reading
Michel Foucault and the Fate of Friendship
In responding to Jacques Derrida's critique of Madness and Civilization as a transcendent experience beyond the language of reason, Michel Foucault makes an initial distinction between the genres of philosophical writing that proves important for the critical understanding of his entire career. I begin with this response not because I am interested in either Derrida's accusation or Foucault's defense. Rather, I am interested in Foucault's charact…
On Becoming Oneself in Frank Lentricchia
In many ways, Frank Lentricchia is leading oppositional figure among those who study American literature. Initiated into profession during latter days of New Criticism, schooled in close reading, disciplined by sublime example of modernist masters, Lentricchia, in his first book on the radical of Yeats and Stevens, The Gaiety of Language (1968), nevertheless supplements his insightful formalist analyses with history of nineteenth-century literary…
Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault
A persistent criticism of theory in general and of Foucault in particular is that no positive social or ethical consequences result from the practice of theory. Critics from all points on the political spectrum seem to agree on this point. Daniel O'Hara here demonstrates the social uses of interpretation by analyzing the later writings of Foucault and the careers of critics in relation to Foucault's work, including Derrida, Kristeva, Said, Rorty,…
Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault
Lentricchia's Frankness
Henry James's Version of Judgment
A sentence from Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil guides my thinking: The 'work,' whether of artist or philosopher, invents man who has created it, who is supposed to have created it.1 As entire passage makes clear, this ironic work of (self-)invention also arises in cases of the great statesman, conqueror, discoverer (BGE, 218). All of these figures are invented and disguised by their creations, often beyond recognition (BGE, 218). Consequently, …
The Return to Ethics: A Report from the Front
For many years now-or so it seems-American literary study has focused on an oppositional ideal. Cornel West has dubbed it new cultural politics of difference.' This oppositional ideal virtually requires, as if it were a latter-day categorical imperative for American critics, a formal maxim to direct critical practice. It would go something like this: that the self-representations, in all cultural media, of previously marginalized and repressed su…
Not “Too Good to Be True: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self-Education
Research Article| February 01 2000 Not “Too Good to Be True”: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self-Education Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 175–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-1-175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Not “Too Good to Be True”: A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self…
The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella
Research Article| May 01 2001 The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 53–55. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-2-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; The Pen Shop of Thomas Kinsella. boundary 2 1 May 2001; 28 (2): 53–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903…
Modernism's Global Identity: On the Dogmatic Imagination in Yeats, Freud, and Beyond
Daniel T. O'Hara, Modernism's Global Identity: On the Dogmatic Imagination in Yeats, Freud, and Beyond, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 25, No. 3/4, Global Freud: Psychoanalytic Cultures and Classic Modernism (Summer, 2002), pp. 1-13
The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions, and Recent Lacanian Studies
Research Article| May 01 2002 The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions, and Recent Lacanian Studies Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 87–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-87 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; The Spirit Medium: Yeats, Quantum Visions, and Recent Lacanian St…
Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of the“ Post/Human” Imagination
Research Article| August 01 2003 Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of the“ Post/Human” Imagination Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 107–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-3-107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of t…
On the Culture of the Real: A Response to Lindsay Waters's Critical Reflections on the Case of Paul de Man
Research Article| August 01 2005 On the Culture of the Real: A Response to Lindsay Waters's Critical Reflections on the Case of Paul de Man Daniel T. O'Hara; Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gina Masucci MacKenzie Gina Masucci MacKenzie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 37–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-3-37 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imagination
Research Article| February 01 2006 Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imagination Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 61–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-33-1-61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imaginati…
Bringing Out the Terror: James Purdy and the Culture of Vision
Research Article| May 01 2006 Bringing Out the Terror: James Purdy and the Culture of Vision Daniel T. O'Hara Daniel T. O'Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 75–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel T. O'Hara; Bringing Out the Terror: James Purdy and the Culture of Vision. boundary …
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