Stephen J Burn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Burn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Burn |
| SIGNATURE | BURN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Late Form
While Said’s influential formulation of late style has heralded a renewed interest in late works, this essay argues that, for postmodern American novelists, lateness was less a question of style, and more a problem of form. This is partly because so many of the terms Said associates with lateness retrace the signature qualities of early postmodernism. But it is also because certain late postmodern works are more immediately distinguishable from t…
The Gender of the Neuronovel
For good reasons, most criticism of the term neuronovel has focused on the impact that the eye-catching and fashionable prefix “neuro” has upon the stem, “novel.” For less clear reasons, the canon of neuronovels (primarily bequeathed by Marco Roth) has tended to pivot on a homogeneously white-male axis, dominated by Mark Haddon, Jonathan Lethem, Ian McEwan, and Richard Powers. This essay explores what we might learn by enlarging the scale of our …
American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000
Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging t…
American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000
Encyclopedic Fictions
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Toward a General Theory of Vision in Wallace's Fiction
Taking David Foster Wallace's The Pale King as an exemplary text, “Toward a General Theory of Vision in Wallace's Fiction” examines the multiple roles that vision and the neurophysiology of sight play in Wallace's work. Tracing the primacy of vision back to “E Unibus Pluram”'s vision of the writer as a “born watcher” and contextualizing Wallace's treatment of the eye against his scientific sources, the essay argues that close attention to Wallace…
A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies
Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a profession
Toward a General Theory of Vision in Wallace's Fiction
Taking David Foster Wallace's The Pale King as an exemplary text, “Toward a General Theory of Vision in Wallace's Fiction” examines the multiple roles that vision and the neurophysiology of sight play in Wallace's work. Tracing the primacy of vision back to “E Unibus Pluram”'s vision of the writer as a “born watcher” and contextualizing Wallace's treatment of the eye against his scientific sources, the essay argues that close attention to Wallace…
A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies
Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a profession
Toward a General Theory of Vision in Wallace's Fiction
Taking David Foster Wallace's The Pale King as an exemplary text, “Toward a General Theory of Vision in Wallace's Fiction” examines the multiple roles that vision and the neurophysiology of sight play in Wallace's work. Tracing the primacy of vision back to “E Unibus Pluram”'s vision of the writer as a “born watcher” and contextualizing Wallace's treatment of the eye against his scientific sources, the essay argues that close attention to Wallace…
American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000
Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating inherited forms, by adopting and adapting emerging t…
American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000
Encyclopedic Fictions
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Gender of the Neuronovel
For good reasons, most criticism of the term neuronovel has focused on the impact that the eye-catching and fashionable prefix “neuro” has upon the stem, “novel.” For less clear reasons, the canon of neuronovels (primarily bequeathed by Marco Roth) has tended to pivot on a homogeneously white-male axis, dominated by Mark Haddon, Jonathan Lethem, Ian McEwan, and Richard Powers. This essay explores what we might learn by enlarging the scale of our …
On Late Form
While Said’s influential formulation of late style has heralded a renewed interest in late works, this essay argues that, for postmodern American novelists, lateness was less a question of style, and more a problem of form. This is partly because so many of the terms Said associates with lateness retrace the signature qualities of early postmodernism. But it is also because certain late postmodern works are more immediately distinguishable from t…
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