Jonathan D Culler
Biographic Data
| ID | 835690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan D Culler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Culler |
| SIGNATURE | CULLER J D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Culler offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, looks at whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind deconstruction and semiotics.
The Realism of Madame Bovary
Flaubert's realism is a topic that has been somewhat neglected of late-for a variety of reasons that at least deserve some reflection. First, though Madame Bovary remains the most widely read and studied of his novels, it would be fair to say, I think, that for critics of the last thirty years Bouvard et Pecuchet has become paradigmatic for Flaubert-as of course it is-and that stripped-down model of writerly activity, which centers the novel on t…
Commentary: What Is Literature Now
Commentary:What Is Literature Now? Jonathan Culler (bio) The question "What is literature?" is not, like "What is hematite?" asked out of ignorance. It is a question of interest only to those who already have a sense of the extension of the concept and who want, for whatever reason, to think about the defining or differential qualities of the phenomena to which, as they know perfectly well, the term is generally applied. In attempting to respond,…
The literary in theory
Explores the place of the literary in theory. This account of the fortunes of the literary in theory, of the resistance to theory, and of key theoretical concepts - text, sign, interpretation, performative, and omniscience - provides insight into various theoretical debates
In Need of a Name? A Response to Geoffrey Harpham
Geoffrey Harpham critiques humanists' complacency or defeatism about the crisis of the humanities but displays one of the most powerful resources of the humanities in his own conversion of the crisis into a defining strength of humanistic disciplines. Where his defense goes wrong is in linking the humanities to an ideology of the human. How can humanists celebrate and expound the most exciting developments in the humanities in recent years if the…
The Hertzian Sublime
For anyone who knows Neil Hertz, a great raconteur with an ironic sense of humor, a man of the people, able to talk to anyone, he seems a most unlikely theorist of the sublime, in the line of Longinus, Burke, and Kant. Longinus and Burke display an unbounded admiration for moments of elevation, in expression and nature—not so Hertz. Neither they nor Kant is notable for a sense of humor, and they are all quite snooty about the low or the trivial. …
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction
Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing literature which gives the reader a creative role." "He called for 'the d…
Barthes, Theorist
It is an honor to inaugurate this discussion of Roland Barthes. In beginning the movement "Back to Barthes" which our title heralds, I want to say what I take to be the importance of Barthes the theorist and semiologist today. Thereafter, I will briefly take up Barthes's championing of the concept of textuality, both because I think that the development of this concept is a crucial in the advance of the humanities and social sciences, or sciences…
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Culler offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, looks at whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind deconstruction and semiotics.
Commentary: What Is Literature Now
Commentary:What Is Literature Now? Jonathan Culler (bio) The question "What is literature?" is not, like "What is hematite?" asked out of ignorance. It is a question of interest only to those who already have a sense of the extension of the concept and who want, for whatever reason, to think about the defining or differential qualities of the phenomena to which, as they know perfectly well, the term is generally applied. In attempting to respond,…
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Barthes, Theorist
It is an honor to inaugurate this discussion of Roland Barthes. In beginning the movement "Back to Barthes" which our title heralds, I want to say what I take to be the importance of Barthes the theorist and semiologist today. Thereafter, I will briefly take up Barthes's championing of the concept of textuality, both because I think that the development of this concept is a crucial in the advance of the humanities and social sciences, or sciences…
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction
Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing literature which gives the reader a creative role." "He called for 'the d…
In Need of a Name? A Response to Geoffrey Harpham
Geoffrey Harpham critiques humanists' complacency or defeatism about the crisis of the humanities but displays one of the most powerful resources of the humanities in his own conversion of the crisis into a defining strength of humanistic disciplines. Where his defense goes wrong is in linking the humanities to an ideology of the human. How can humanists celebrate and expound the most exciting developments in the humanities in recent years if the…
The Hertzian Sublime
For anyone who knows Neil Hertz, a great raconteur with an ironic sense of humor, a man of the people, able to talk to anyone, he seems a most unlikely theorist of the sublime, in the line of Longinus, Burke, and Kant. Longinus and Burke display an unbounded admiration for moments of elevation, in expression and nature—not so Hertz. Neither they nor Kant is notable for a sense of humor, and they are all quite snooty about the low or the trivial. …
The Realism of Madame Bovary
Flaubert's realism is a topic that has been somewhat neglected of late-for a variety of reasons that at least deserve some reflection. First, though Madame Bovary remains the most widely read and studied of his novels, it would be fair to say, I think, that for critics of the last thirty years Bouvard et Pecuchet has become paradigmatic for Flaubert-as of course it is-and that stripped-down model of writerly activity, which centers the novel on t…
Commentary: What Is Literature Now
Commentary:What Is Literature Now? Jonathan Culler (bio) The question "What is literature?" is not, like "What is hematite?" asked out of ignorance. It is a question of interest only to those who already have a sense of the extension of the concept and who want, for whatever reason, to think about the defining or differential qualities of the phenomena to which, as they know perfectly well, the term is generally applied. In attempting to respond,…
The literary in theory
Explores the place of the literary in theory. This account of the fortunes of the literary in theory, of the resistance to theory, and of key theoretical concepts - text, sign, interpretation, performative, and omniscience - provides insight into various theoretical debates
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Culler offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, looks at whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind deconstruction and semiotics.
Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Philosophy (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Criticism (6 works) · History and criticism (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · French Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works)