Paul A Cantor
Biographic Data
| ID | 609320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul A Cantor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cantor |
| SIGNATURE | CANTOR P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
What is the American dream, and why has it proven so elusive for many people? By examining popular culture’s portrayal of the dark side of the American dream, this book seeks to answer these questions. Only when we see people fail in their pursuit of the American dream do we begin to understand its limitations and its inner contradictions. This book explores five representative examples of the American dream gone awry: (1) Huckleberry Finn; (2) t…
Reality Czech
Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth offers fresh evidence of the universality of Shakespeare's genius. The play juxtaposes a perfunctory performance of Hamlet in an English boarding school with a courageous staging of Macbeth as a protest against Communist tyranny in 1978 Czechoslovakia. The play shows that, paradoxically, Shakespeare's plays have less of an impact in England than they do in foreign countries, where differing political…
Shakespeare
Long Day's Journey Into Brecht
Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others has been widely praised as the first German film to confront the horrors of the East German communist regime. But the film's politics may be ambiguous. As critical as it is of East Germany, it does not offer a ringing endorsement of West Germany. For example, the film's playwright-hero seems to have artistic problems in the West, just as he did in the East. The film's equivocal attitude toward communism is epito…
Get with the Program
With television having matured as a creative medium in the past few decades, it has taken its rightful place among the subjects scholars study seriously. Professors are now analyzing the meaning and significance of classic shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos with the care and intellectual respect traditionally accorded to literary masterpieces. But some academics still resist the idea that anything of genuine and lasting artistic …
Who Killed Víctor Jara
The Politics of the Epic
Traditionally, the epic focused on the heroic deeds of great public figures, but the Romantics remade the genre into something more personal, making the poet himself the hero of their epics. The Romantic disillusionment with politics, flowing from the failure of the French Revolution, lies behind their revaluation of heroism. The turn to nature, which the Romantics present as immediate, turns out to be mediated by their political experience. Word…
The Shores of Hybridity
Some critics in recent years have tried to shift the focus of Shakespeare’s universe to the Atlantic and make Shakespeare scholarship a branch of New World studies. But Shakespeare’s plays remain centered on the Mediterranean – roughly twenty of his thirty‐seven plays have Mediterranean settings. This Mediterranean focus does not, however, mean that Shakespeare’s vision is Eurocentric. In the Renaissance, the Mediterranean was a multicultural wor…
Being Claude Dukenfield
(2002). Being Claude Dukenfield: W. C. Fields and the American Dream. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 71-76
Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today
This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and po…
Postmodern Prophet
Postmodern Prophet: Tocqueville Visits Vegas Paul A. Cantor (bio) If in the year 2000 Alexis de Tocqueville could somehow be given the opportunity to revisit the United States, he would be gratified to see how many of his observations concerning the country had proven to be correct. Yet for all his prescience, Tocqueville would find much to surprise him in contemporary America. Take Las Vegas, for example. Given Tocqueville’s emphasis on America’…
Shakespeare in the Original Klingon
(2000). Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 158-166
A welcome for postcolonial literature
The Simpsons
Hijacking the modern language association
It’s not the tenure, it’s the radicalism
Literature and Politics
gime and, in particular, the classical understanding of it. As a concept encompassing public and private life, the regime is the point at which politics and literature meet. The choice of the word regime to translate the Greek term in question (politeia) is debatable, but it helps highlight what Plato and Aristotle mean by the term.1 A regime is a government, a specific form of government. The word calls attention to the actual person or groups i…
Happy Days in the Veld
Research Article| January 01 1994 Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country Paul A. Cantor Paul A. Cantor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (1): 83–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-93-1-83 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul A. Cantor; Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee's In t…
Stephen Greenblatt‘s new historicist vision
W henever friends in other academic fields ask me as a professor of literature to explain what is going on in my discipline, I am usually surprised to discover how little they really know about literary studies today. They have just managed to get a feel for deconstruction, now that the theory has filtered down to the level of the popular press. Thus they are dismayed to learn that on our finer college campuses today Jacques Derrida is already co…
Afterword
Research Article| July 01 1989 Afterword: Stoning the Romance: The Ideological Critique of Nineteenth-Century Literature Paul A. Cantor Paul A. Cantor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (3): 705–720. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-3-705 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul A. Cantor; Afterword: Stoning the Romance: The…
Literary Criticism and Philosophy
The Simpsons
The Politics of the Epic
Traditionally, the epic focused on the heroic deeds of great public figures, but the Romantics remade the genre into something more personal, making the poet himself the hero of their epics. The Romantic disillusionment with politics, flowing from the failure of the French Revolution, lies behind their revaluation of heroism. The turn to nature, which the Romantics present as immediate, turns out to be mediated by their political experience. Word…
Literature and Politics
gime and, in particular, the classical understanding of it. As a concept encompassing public and private life, the regime is the point at which politics and literature meet. The choice of the word regime to translate the Greek term in question (politeia) is debatable, but it helps highlight what Plato and Aristotle mean by the term.1 A regime is a government, a specific form of government. The word calls attention to the actual person or groups i…
The Shores of Hybridity
Some critics in recent years have tried to shift the focus of Shakespeare’s universe to the Atlantic and make Shakespeare scholarship a branch of New World studies. But Shakespeare’s plays remain centered on the Mediterranean – roughly twenty of his thirty‐seven plays have Mediterranean settings. This Mediterranean focus does not, however, mean that Shakespeare’s vision is Eurocentric. In the Renaissance, the Mediterranean was a multicultural wor…
Postmodern Prophet
Postmodern Prophet: Tocqueville Visits Vegas Paul A. Cantor (bio) If in the year 2000 Alexis de Tocqueville could somehow be given the opportunity to revisit the United States, he would be gratified to see how many of his observations concerning the country had proven to be correct. Yet for all his prescience, Tocqueville would find much to surprise him in contemporary America. Take Las Vegas, for example. Given Tocqueville’s emphasis on America’…
Happy Days in the Veld
Research Article| January 01 1994 Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country Paul A. Cantor Paul A. Cantor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (1): 83–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-93-1-83 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul A. Cantor; Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee's In t…
Literary Criticism and Philosophy
Afterword
Research Article| July 01 1989 Afterword: Stoning the Romance: The Ideological Critique of Nineteenth-Century Literature Paul A. Cantor Paul A. Cantor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (3): 705–720. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-3-705 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul A. Cantor; Afterword: Stoning the Romance: The…
Stephen Greenblatt‘s new historicist vision
W henever friends in other academic fields ask me as a professor of literature to explain what is going on in my discipline, I am usually surprised to discover how little they really know about literary studies today. They have just managed to get a feel for deconstruction, now that the theory has filtered down to the level of the popular press. Thus they are dismayed to learn that on our finer college campuses today Jacques Derrida is already co…
Happy Days in the Veld
Research Article| January 01 1994 Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country Paul A. Cantor Paul A. Cantor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (1): 83–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-93-1-83 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul A. Cantor; Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee's In t…
Literature and Politics
gime and, in particular, the classical understanding of it. As a concept encompassing public and private life, the regime is the point at which politics and literature meet. The choice of the word regime to translate the Greek term in question (politeia) is debatable, but it helps highlight what Plato and Aristotle mean by the term.1 A regime is a government, a specific form of government. The word calls attention to the actual person or groups i…
It’s not the tenure, it’s the radicalism
A welcome for postcolonial literature
The Simpsons
Hijacking the modern language association
Postmodern Prophet
Postmodern Prophet: Tocqueville Visits Vegas Paul A. Cantor (bio) If in the year 2000 Alexis de Tocqueville could somehow be given the opportunity to revisit the United States, he would be gratified to see how many of his observations concerning the country had proven to be correct. Yet for all his prescience, Tocqueville would find much to surprise him in contemporary America. Take Las Vegas, for example. Given Tocqueville’s emphasis on America’…
Shakespeare in the Original Klingon
(2000). Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 158-166
Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today
This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and po…
Being Claude Dukenfield
(2002). Being Claude Dukenfield: W. C. Fields and the American Dream. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 71-76
The Shores of Hybridity
Some critics in recent years have tried to shift the focus of Shakespeare’s universe to the Atlantic and make Shakespeare scholarship a branch of New World studies. But Shakespeare’s plays remain centered on the Mediterranean – roughly twenty of his thirty‐seven plays have Mediterranean settings. This Mediterranean focus does not, however, mean that Shakespeare’s vision is Eurocentric. In the Renaissance, the Mediterranean was a multicultural wor…
The Politics of the Epic
Traditionally, the epic focused on the heroic deeds of great public figures, but the Romantics remade the genre into something more personal, making the poet himself the hero of their epics. The Romantic disillusionment with politics, flowing from the failure of the French Revolution, lies behind their revaluation of heroism. The turn to nature, which the Romantics present as immediate, turns out to be mediated by their political experience. Word…
Who Killed Víctor Jara
Get with the Program
With television having matured as a creative medium in the past few decades, it has taken its rightful place among the subjects scholars study seriously. Professors are now analyzing the meaning and significance of classic shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos with the care and intellectual respect traditionally accorded to literary masterpieces. But some academics still resist the idea that anything of genuine and lasting artistic …
Long Day's Journey Into Brecht
Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others has been widely praised as the first German film to confront the horrors of the East German communist regime. But the film's politics may be ambiguous. As critical as it is of East Germany, it does not offer a ringing endorsement of West Germany. For example, the film's playwright-hero seems to have artistic problems in the West, just as he did in the East. The film's equivocal attitude toward communism is epito…
Shakespeare
Reality Czech
Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth offers fresh evidence of the universality of Shakespeare's genius. The play juxtaposes a perfunctory performance of Hamlet in an English boarding school with a courageous staging of Macbeth as a protest against Communist tyranny in 1978 Czechoslovakia. The play shows that, paradoxically, Shakespeare's plays have less of an impact in England than they do in foreign countries, where differing political…
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
What is the American dream, and why has it proven so elusive for many people? By examining popular culture’s portrayal of the dark side of the American dream, this book seeks to answer these questions. Only when we see people fail in their pursuit of the American dream do we begin to understand its limitations and its inner contradictions. This book explores five representative examples of the American dream gone awry: (1) Huckleberry Finn; (2) t…
Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Literature (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works)