Henry Sussman

Biographic Data

ID461801
NAMEHenry Sussman
GIVEN NAMESHenry
FAMILY NAMESussman
SIGNATURESUSSMAN H
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy, Religion

    Henry SussmanBOOKThe Task of the Critic2022

    Today's critic must be something of a philosopher as well as a poet. Yet her work remains above all that of the close reader, and the emergence of the values embodied by the close reader to stand alongside those of the philosopher and the poet may be one of the most significant intellectual developments to emerge in the post-World War II years. This book analyzes the language poets, Deleuze and Guattari, and above all Benjamin and Derrida, to tra…

  • Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 2

    Open AccessHenry SussmanBOOKImpasses of the Post-Global2012

    The diverse materials comprising Impasses of the Post-Global take as their starting point an interrelated, if seemingly endless sequence of current ecological, demographic, socio-political, economic, and informational disasters. These include the contemporary discourses of deconstruction, climate change, ecological imbalance and despoilment, sustainability, security, economic bailout, auto-immunity, and globalization itself. With essays by James …

  • The Calculable, the Incalculable, and the Rest: Kafka’s Virtual Environment

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2012Cited by: 1

    The Calculable, the Incalculable, and the Rest: Kafka’s Virtual Environment Henry Sussman 1 The fact that I am reverting, on the occasion of a major retrospective on Kafka and architecture, to Kafka’s late animal parable, “Der Bau” (“The Burrow”), a phenomenally suggestive text I viewed in a deconstructive light forty years ago, is itself something of a feedback loop. What will be “fed back” into this circuit of coding and decoding is precisely t…

  • The Hookah Quadrille: A Conversation-Loop

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2010

    The Hookah Quadrille:A Conversation-Loop Henry Sussman Interlocutors: T.R. Hookah, D.H. Tortoise, the Cheshire Cat, Achilles Hair D. H. Tortoise: The four of us haven't been together, what is it, three years? Cheshire Cat: This is a big hop up from the Alleycat Café, where we met last time. The cover was ridiculous, the drinks mostly water, and the music sad. Achilles Hair: It was certainly nice of Dick Macksey to let us gather in his library. It…

  • Terror in Full Domesticity: The Escalating War of Insults

    Henry SussmanARTICLEThe Global South2009

    The essay broaches an idea, briefly entertained and then dismissed by John Austin in How to Do Things with Words , that insults work the tangible effects of speech-acts and other performatives. The most telling dynamic underlying the hostile acts of warfare, whether in its "conventional" or "terrorist" modality, may well be an exchange of insults, invariably escalating in intended crippling effect and violence. The essay goes on to investigate th…

  • The Phenomenology of Jetlag

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2009Cited by: 1

    The Phenomenology of Jetlag Henry Sussman A common experience, resulting in a common confusion. A. has to transact important business with B. in H. He goes to H. for a preliminary interview, accomplishes the journey there in ten minutes and the journey back in the same time, and on returning boasts to his family of his expedition. Next day he goes again to H., this time to settle his business finally. As that by all appearances will require sever…

  • Systems, Games, and the Player: Did We Manage to Become Human

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2007

    The essay is part of an overall effort to translate the traditions of German idealism and contemporary systems theory into a discourse infused by the rhetoric and operations of cybernetics. This is a step best tracked explicitly. The language of open as opposed to closed systems, feedback loops, autopoeisis, turbulence, chaos, and gaming not only characterizes a vast amount of the scientific and cultural programming taking place today; it is a rh…

  • Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Contemporary China (review)

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2006

    Reviewed by: Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Contemporary China Henry Sussman Haun Saussy. Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Contemporary China. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001. ix–xi + 289 pages. It takes no special virtue to share the present with China. Indeed, since Leibnitz's Novissima Sinica (1697), this is what intermediaries do best. The "coevalness" of civilizations is one of the givens of our field; it underw…

  • The Critic's Tact

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2006

    The Critic’s Tact Henry Sussman J. Hillis Miller. Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James. New York: Fordham UP, 2005. ix–xii + 343 pages. J. Hillis Miller's nuanced, precise, and detailed elaboration of speech acts in literature has encompassed, in addition to a volume of the same title (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001), at least The Ethics of Literature (New York: Columbia UP, 1987), Versions of Pygmalion (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990), an…

  • Tracing the Photogram

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2004

    Garrett Stewart, Between Film and Screen: Modernism's Photo Synthesis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, 386 pages. . . . to examine more particularly the way the stylistic "cues" of film narrative work to structure our access to screen action's photogrammatic basis. What should soon grow clear is that the reframed photograph and the consecutively rephotographed film frame can operate as systemic alternatives to each other within the sam…

  • On the Butcher Block: A Panorama of Social Marking

    Henry SussmanARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2004

    The Butcher Boy, a 1998 production of the currently daring and inventive Irish film industry, directed by Neil Jordan, provides a fortuitous occasion for setting out certain of the textual, sociological, and theoretical parameters that need to be taken into account in contemporary cultural criticism. Based on a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe,1 the film graphically raises questions of social branding, progressive alienation, exclusion, outsideness, …

  • Between the Registers: The Allegory of Space in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project

    Henry SussmanARTICLEboundary 22003Cited by: 1

    Research Article| February 01 2003 Between the Registers: The Allegory of Space in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project Henry Sussman Henry Sussman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 169–190. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-1-169 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Henry Sussman; Between the Registers: The Allegory of Space in Walter B…

  • Prolegomena to any Present and Future Language Poetry

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2003

    Of course nothing could be more paradoxical than a poetry of language, or language poetry. Poetry is, after all, made of the stuff. Starting off from its name, language poetry is a redundancy, the sort of thing we take off for on our students' compositions. And nothing could be riskier than discussing a radical and variegated poetic movement in terms of the contributions furnished by a single one of its practitioners, Charles Bernstein. Anything …

  • Freeze-frame: An Essay-Review

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2002

    The exactions of launching a critical broadside have never been more demanding. Theoretically grounded work loses its caché of the moment, if it is not powered by meticulous close readings, worked through, where possible, to the syllabic and even sub-syllabic levels. At the same time, the critical work needs to address some broader trends or arguments prevailing in the marketplace of conceptual models, lest the microscopic analysis be dissipated …

  • The Arcades Project (review)

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2000

    A good measure of the miracle of Walter Benjamin's prose derives from the play of different densities, consistencies, what the social scientists call "grains" of specificity, within its sweep. Up until Harvard University Press's English rendering of Benjamin's Gesammelte Schriften by Suhrkamp Verlag in Frankfurt, Benjamin has been largely known in this country for writings, say in Illuminations or Reflections, toward the condensed or polished ext…

  • Deterritorializing the Text: Flow-Theory and Deconstruction

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2000

    MLN - Volume 115, Number 5, December 2000 (Comparative Literature Issue)

  • The Aesthetic Contract. Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity

    Christian Moraru, Henry SussmanARTICLESubStance1998

  • Death and the Critic: Eugenio Donato's Script of Decadence

    Henry Sussman, Eugenio DonatoARTICLEdiacritics1995

  • Maxima Moralia: Millenial Fragments on the Public and Private Dimensions of Language

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1995

    MLN - Volume 110, Number 4, September 1995 (Comparative Literature Issue)

  • Derrida and Autobiography (Literature, Culture, Theory #16)

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1995

    MLN - Volume 110, Number 4, September 1995 (Comparative Literature Issue)

  • Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation

    Henry Sussman, Susan StewartARTICLEModern Language Notes1992

    From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of of writing-the forgeries of George Psalmanazar; the production of fakelore; the ballad scandals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the imposture of Thomas Chatterton; and contemp…

  • Modernism and Hegemony: A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies

    Martin Melaver, Neil Larsen et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1991

  • High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy

    Linda Reinfeld, Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1990

    Combining literary theory with close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Italo Calvino, this book is the first to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies - the mass media's ambivalence towards the linguistic apprehensions and skills that make them possible

  • Afterimages of Modernity: Structure and Indifference in Twentieth-Century Literature

    Paul Miers, Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1990

  • A Note on the Public and the Private in Literature: "The Literature of "Acting Out

    Henry SussmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1989

    Literature delights in a blurring of public and private realms often disastrous when it occurs on existential, ethical, psychoanalytical, or legal levels. Indeed, from a perspective of wish-fulfillment, this confusion between the public and the private accounts in part for the attraction that literature holds for its readers. Whereas no small measure of our socialization is dedicated to the inscription and then rigorous observation of a boundary …