Jeffrey Wallen
Biographic Data
| ID | 958672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Wallen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallen |
| SIGNATURE | WALLEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hampshire College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Recoding World Literature
“World literature” has become a popular topic in recent years. There have been many interesting debates about what world literature might or should be in our “globalized” world of the twenty-first century, and a lot of energy has been put into developing anthologies and guides for teaching courses in world literature. B. Venkat Mani's Recoding World Literature takes a different approach from most other contributors to these discussions. Rather th…
Facing the Sonderkommando
The essay analyzes the movie Son of Saul, a Hungarian film that immerses its viewers in the life of a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is not an easy film to watch as it presents the view from inside the world of the men who were forced to shepherd the Jews into the gas chambers and to dispose of their corpses, after first gleaning what was valuable from them. The essay explores questions about the limits of representation o…
Beckett in Times of Crisis
Beckett in Times of CrisisA review of Lance Duerfahrd, The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis Jeffrey Wallen (bio) A review of Lance Duerfahrd, The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2013. Why does Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot have such resonance when performed in extreme circumstances? Why does a play in which little happens, and which offers litt…
Closed encounters
The Poverty of Conversation
The Poverty of Conversation Jeffrey Wallen (bio) “Intellectual debate if it were in the right spirit would be wonderful.” —Jane Tompkins One frequently encounters pleas for a meaningful dialogue, for a genuine exchange of ideas, or for a new conversation in cultural criticism today. What ideas about criticism, about the formation and development of ideas, and about academia are at play in these calls for dialogue? Does a demand for dialogue only …
Between Text and Image
(1995). Between Text and Image: The Literary Portrait. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 50-65
The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction
Realism and Consensus in the English Novel
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Realism and Consensus in the English Novel
The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction
Between Text and Image
(1995). Between Text and Image: The Literary Portrait. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 50-65
The Poverty of Conversation
The Poverty of Conversation Jeffrey Wallen (bio) “Intellectual debate if it were in the right spirit would be wonderful.” —Jane Tompkins One frequently encounters pleas for a meaningful dialogue, for a genuine exchange of ideas, or for a new conversation in cultural criticism today. What ideas about criticism, about the formation and development of ideas, and about academia are at play in these calls for dialogue? Does a demand for dialogue only …
Closed encounters
Beckett in Times of Crisis
Beckett in Times of CrisisA review of Lance Duerfahrd, The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis Jeffrey Wallen (bio) A review of Lance Duerfahrd, The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2013. Why does Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot have such resonance when performed in extreme circumstances? Why does a play in which little happens, and which offers litt…
Facing the Sonderkommando
The essay analyzes the movie Son of Saul, a Hungarian film that immerses its viewers in the life of a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is not an easy film to watch as it presents the view from inside the world of the men who were forced to shepherd the Jews into the gas chambers and to dispose of their corpses, after first gleaning what was valuable from them. The essay explores questions about the limits of representation o…
Recoding World Literature
“World literature” has become a popular topic in recent years. There have been many interesting debates about what world literature might or should be in our “globalized” world of the twenty-first century, and a lot of energy has been put into developing anthologies and guides for teaching courses in world literature. B. Venkat Mani's Recoding World Literature takes a different approach from most other contributors to these discussions. Rather th…
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