Robert Stilling
Biographic Data
| ID | 5964994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Stilling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Stilling |
| SIGNATURE | STILLING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Claiming modernity in Egypt
In the Western decadent imagination, Egypt has been figured as the site of Orientalist fantasy, a land of sphinxes, pyramids, and mummies having little to do with modernity. For a modern Arab writer in Egypt to write in a decadent mode would be to risk recapitulating Europe’s Orientalizing vision. And yet, for the poet and feminist intellectual Mayy Ziyādah (1886–1941), to write in such a mode is also to assert one’s experience of colonial modern…
Dandyism
Book Review| December 01 2020 Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present Gutkin, Len, Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Robert Stilling Robert Stilling Robert Stilling is associate professor of English at Florida State University. His book, Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry (2018), won the Modernist Studies Association Prize …
Beginning at the End
Warramou’s Curse
Despite the recent revival of interest in the Victorian epic, poems from the colonial periphery have played only a small role in the revised narrative of the epic's persistence across the nineteenth century. Part of the explanation for this may lie in the centralized imperial geography of the archives that inspired both nineteenth-century scholars and epoists. As Adelene Buckland and Anna Vaninskaya remark, “Britain was certainly the place to be …
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Warramou’s Curse
Despite the recent revival of interest in the Victorian epic, poems from the colonial periphery have played only a small role in the revised narrative of the epic's persistence across the nineteenth century. Part of the explanation for this may lie in the centralized imperial geography of the archives that inspired both nineteenth-century scholars and epoists. As Adelene Buckland and Anna Vaninskaya remark, “Britain was certainly the place to be …
Beginning at the End
Dandyism
Book Review| December 01 2020 Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present Gutkin, Len, Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Robert Stilling Robert Stilling Robert Stilling is associate professor of English at Florida State University. His book, Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry (2018), won the Modernist Studies Association Prize …
Claiming modernity in Egypt
In the Western decadent imagination, Egypt has been figured as the site of Orientalist fantasy, a land of sphinxes, pyramids, and mummies having little to do with modernity. For a modern Arab writer in Egypt to write in a decadent mode would be to risk recapitulating Europe’s Orientalizing vision. And yet, for the poet and feminist intellectual Mayy Ziyādah (1886–1941), to write in such a mode is also to assert one’s experience of colonial modern…
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