Christy Wampole
Biographic Data
| ID | 957228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christy Wampole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wampole |
| SIGNATURE | WAMPOLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Roots and Burial
The Cambridge History of the American Essay
From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, f…
Zeitgeist Literature
An Ecocritical Metaphorology
The field of French and Francophone studies should lead the way in the development of an ecocritical metaphorology, that is, a science of the metaphors used to describe human involvement in environmental change in the Anthropocene. Using the analytical skills typically applied to the study of literary texts, scholars in French and Francophone studies should analyze the environmental metaphors in non-literary text and speech, such as journalistic …
Reading Claude Cahun’s Disavowals
‘Cyberia, Syberia …’: Clones, Virtual Spaces, and Cyber-Selves in Claudio Magris’s Alla cieca
This article analyzes the moments in Claudio Magris’ Alla cieca (2005) in which the author mobilizes the expressive potential of technology by means of three specific European cultural references: the advent of Freudian psychoanalysis, twentieth-century class-struggle and its path toward the catastrophe of totalitarianism, and the legacy of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. I argue that these moments, in which Magris conjugates technolog…
Essayism and the Multiplication of Possibility in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes
This analysis shows the affinity between the concept of essayism and the project of creolisation undertaken by Patrick Chamoiseau and other Martinican writers. By translating the essayistic spirit—the will to assay, to try, to attempt, or to strive—to a non-European context, Chamoiseau and his fellow writers overhaul the form and stealthily undo assumptions about what the essay can or cannot accomplish. Through examples from Eloge de la creolite …
An Ecocritical Metaphorology
The field of French and Francophone studies should lead the way in the development of an ecocritical metaphorology, that is, a science of the metaphors used to describe human involvement in environmental change in the Anthropocene. Using the analytical skills typically applied to the study of literary texts, scholars in French and Francophone studies should analyze the environmental metaphors in non-literary text and speech, such as journalistic …
Essayism and the Multiplication of Possibility in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes
This analysis shows the affinity between the concept of essayism and the project of creolisation undertaken by Patrick Chamoiseau and other Martinican writers. By translating the essayistic spirit—the will to assay, to try, to attempt, or to strive—to a non-European context, Chamoiseau and his fellow writers overhaul the form and stealthily undo assumptions about what the essay can or cannot accomplish. Through examples from Eloge de la creolite …
‘Cyberia, Syberia …’: Clones, Virtual Spaces, and Cyber-Selves in Claudio Magris’s Alla cieca
This article analyzes the moments in Claudio Magris’ Alla cieca (2005) in which the author mobilizes the expressive potential of technology by means of three specific European cultural references: the advent of Freudian psychoanalysis, twentieth-century class-struggle and its path toward the catastrophe of totalitarianism, and the legacy of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. I argue that these moments, in which Magris conjugates technolog…
Reading Claude Cahun’s Disavowals
An Ecocritical Metaphorology
The field of French and Francophone studies should lead the way in the development of an ecocritical metaphorology, that is, a science of the metaphors used to describe human involvement in environmental change in the Anthropocene. Using the analytical skills typically applied to the study of literary texts, scholars in French and Francophone studies should analyze the environmental metaphors in non-literary text and speech, such as journalistic …
The Cambridge History of the American Essay
From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, f…
Zeitgeist Literature
On Roots and Burial
Art (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)