Miguel Tamen
Biographic Data
| ID | 976712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel Tamen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamen |
| SIGNATURE | TAMEN M |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3842-8083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Chapter
This book offers (1) a theory of chapters, (2) a history of chapter varieties, roughly between the Romans and the early Renaissance, paying special attention to controversies of biblical scholarship, and (3) an examination of varieties of chapter division in the novel, essentially from eighteenth-century English acrobatics to contemporary authors. The theory rests on ten “premises” that are not quite premises. Its only genuine premise is that a c…
Nothing Happened
It is well known that the July 14, 1789, entry in Louis XVI's diary is “Rien.” He did not mean the word as a philosophical statement. Louis just thought that nothing much had happened on that day. Of course we may disagree, and those disagreements are often the stuff of history and history writing. Crane is at her best when she is being a historian—that is, when she understands the phrase “nothing happened” as implying that “most of the past is N…
Apropos of Something
Tamarkin's book puts forth a number of theses about what she calls relevance, based on an impressive and disparate number of sources. Relevance is understood as (1) a property of certain objects (especially poems and paintings), (2) an emotion (“the emotional side of consciousness”) experienced by people, and (3) the acts through which anything becomes meaningful or interesting to someone. These three are not obviously compatible, and work appear…
On Getting Better
On the face of it, Phillips's claim is that we are getting better all the time, or at least that we may do so. For him, “to talk about getting better . . . is to talk about pursuing the life we want.” His book, always suggestive and often brilliant, entails an argument in moral philosophy, roughly in favor of Millean experiments in living. A number of difficulties, however, arise. The first and perhaps the foremost is that the moral philosophy is…
Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge
Book Review| January 01 2021 Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge Lodge, Sara, Inventing Edward Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), 436 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 120–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8723263 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge. Co…
How Words Make Things Happen by David Bromwich
Review Article| August 01 2020 How Words Make Things Happen by David Bromwich Bromwich, David, How Words Make Things Happen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 113 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 437–438. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8521585 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen…
Paper Minds
Book Review| April 01 2020 Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick Kramnick, Jonathan, Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 198 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 363. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8192899 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Ellipsis in English Literature
Book Review| April 01 2019 Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission by Anne Toner Toner, Anne, Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 255 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 447. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312561 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
Renunciation
Book Review| August 01 2018 Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists by Ross Posnock, Exhaustion: A History by Anna Katharina Schaffner Posnock, Ross, Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), 415 pp.Schaffner, Anna Katharina, Exhaustion: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 291 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for o…
Alice in Space
Book Review| August 01 2018 Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer Beer, Gillian, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 296 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 450. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6940402 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Homeless
Portuguese Articles
Caves e Andares Nobres
Ellipsis in English Literature
Book Review| September 01 2017 Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission Toner, Anne, Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 255 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 547. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3988443 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Second Attempt
In his well-known, and often very loose, paraphrase of Psalm 137, Camões suggests that he has "hung on the willow trees / The organs with which I had sung" (11.54-55). This looks prima facie false, since he has already produced at least 53 lines after that event, and will go on to produce many more, to the total of 365. What is the status of a poetic composition that purports to escape the pitfalls of poetry, and, more to the point, what is the u…
Introduction
It is often argued that a shared culture, or at least shared cultural references or practices, can help to foster peace and prevent war. This essay examines in detail and criticizes one such argument, made by Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the context of his discussing an incident during World War II, when he and a captured German general found a form of agreement, a ground for peace between them, in their both knowing Horace's ode I.9 by heart in Lati…
The Words of Others
Book Review| January 01 2015 The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture Morson, Gary Saul, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 352 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 123. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
The Things Things Say
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Things Things Say Lamb, Jonathan, The Things Things Say (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 320 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 556–557. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; The Things Things Say. C…
In Defense of Louis Xvi
In this guest column, the author argues, first, that being at the place of an event does not guarantee that one understands what is going on and, second, that something's happening with or to me does not guarantee that I understand what has occurred. He shows that it is generally assumed that the best descriptions of oneself are those given by oneself and, further, generally felt that allowing for the possibility that better descriptions than one…
Interpretation and Resistance
People who talk about interpretation often suggest that what is interpreted must offer some kind of resistance, in quasiphysical terms. The physics entailed by such suggestions is never fully specified, and for a good reason: it is purely nonexistent. This essay presents arguments against physical fantasies in interpretation, very current in the humanities and the social sciences, and offers a different picture of interpretation. The picture has …
Accident
Book Review| August 01 2010 Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History Ross Hamilton, Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 320 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 561–562. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Cit…
Alice-mutton
Tamen's essay is one of a group of responses to Émilie Hache and Bruno Latour's article "Morality or Moralism?" which advocates our "sensitization" to nonhuman things. Tamen examines the picture of universal reciprocation that Hache and Latour propose, according to which, when I "bow at" (acknowledge) things, some things bow back at me, and I must treat whatever bows back as if it were like me. Unlike James Lovelock, a passage from whose work the…
Things That Talk
Book Review| August 01 2009 Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science Lorraine Daston, ed., Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 250 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 520–521. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-052 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Si…
Introduction
The essay discusses the presumption of one's singularity, the uniqueness of one's time, the picturesqueness of one actions, and the capacity of human beings, whether corporately or individually, to begin everything or indeed anything again from scratch. Such presumptions are indeed present in some varieties of contemporary fanaticism, but, more to the point, it is suggested that the feeling of doing something for the first time is the oldest feel…
My Taste
Research Article| February 01 2005 My Taste Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 209–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-1-209 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; My Taste. boundary 2 1 February 2005; 32 (1): 209–222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-1-209 Download citation file: Zotero …
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New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1998
End of Story
Research Article| April 01 2002 End of Story Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 357–363. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-2-357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; End of Story. Common Knowledge 1 April 2002; 8 (2): 357–363. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-2-357 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Mana…
Critical Inquiry 28.1 (autumn 2001)
Book Review| August 01 2003 Critical Inquiry 28.1 (autumn 2001): Special Issue on“ Things,” Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 543–544. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-3-543-a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; Critical Inquiry 28.1 (autumn 2001): Special Issue on“ Things,”. Common Knowledge 1 August 2003; 9 (3):…
My Taste
Research Article| February 01 2005 My Taste Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 209–222. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-1-209 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; My Taste. boundary 2 1 February 2005; 32 (1): 209–222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-1-209 Download citation file: Zotero …
The Sort of Person We All Are
Research Article| August 01 2005 The Sort of Person We All Are Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 522–526. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-3-522 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Miguel Tame…
Introduction
The essay discusses the presumption of one's singularity, the uniqueness of one's time, the picturesqueness of one actions, and the capacity of human beings, whether corporately or individually, to begin everything or indeed anything again from scratch. Such presumptions are indeed present in some varieties of contemporary fanaticism, but, more to the point, it is suggested that the feeling of doing something for the first time is the oldest feel…
Things That Talk
Book Review| August 01 2009 Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science Lorraine Daston, ed., Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 250 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 520–521. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-052 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Si…
Accident
Book Review| August 01 2010 Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History Ross Hamilton, Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 320 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 561–562. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Cit…
Alice-mutton
Tamen's essay is one of a group of responses to Émilie Hache and Bruno Latour's article "Morality or Moralism?" which advocates our "sensitization" to nonhuman things. Tamen examines the picture of universal reciprocation that Hache and Latour propose, according to which, when I "bow at" (acknowledge) things, some things bow back at me, and I must treat whatever bows back as if it were like me. Unlike James Lovelock, a passage from whose work the…
Interpretation and Resistance
People who talk about interpretation often suggest that what is interpreted must offer some kind of resistance, in quasiphysical terms. The physics entailed by such suggestions is never fully specified, and for a good reason: it is purely nonexistent. This essay presents arguments against physical fantasies in interpretation, very current in the humanities and the social sciences, and offers a different picture of interpretation. The picture has …
The Things Things Say
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Things Things Say Lamb, Jonathan, The Things Things Say (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 320 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 556–557. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; The Things Things Say. C…
In Defense of Louis Xvi
In this guest column, the author argues, first, that being at the place of an event does not guarantee that one understands what is going on and, second, that something's happening with or to me does not guarantee that I understand what has occurred. He shows that it is generally assumed that the best descriptions of oneself are those given by oneself and, further, generally felt that allowing for the possibility that better descriptions than one…
The Words of Others
Book Review| January 01 2015 The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture Morson, Gary Saul, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 352 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 123. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
Second Attempt
In his well-known, and often very loose, paraphrase of Psalm 137, Camões suggests that he has "hung on the willow trees / The organs with which I had sung" (11.54-55). This looks prima facie false, since he has already produced at least 53 lines after that event, and will go on to produce many more, to the total of 365. What is the status of a poetic composition that purports to escape the pitfalls of poetry, and, more to the point, what is the u…
Introduction
It is often argued that a shared culture, or at least shared cultural references or practices, can help to foster peace and prevent war. This essay examines in detail and criticizes one such argument, made by Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the context of his discussing an incident during World War II, when he and a captured German general found a form of agreement, a ground for peace between them, in their both knowing Horace's ode I.9 by heart in Lati…
Homeless
Portuguese Articles
Caves e Andares Nobres
Ellipsis in English Literature
Book Review| September 01 2017 Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission Toner, Anne, Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 255 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 547. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3988443 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Renunciation
Book Review| August 01 2018 Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists by Ross Posnock, Exhaustion: A History by Anna Katharina Schaffner Posnock, Ross, Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), 415 pp.Schaffner, Anna Katharina, Exhaustion: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 291 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for o…
Alice in Space
Book Review| August 01 2018 Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer Beer, Gillian, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 296 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 450. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6940402 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Ellipsis in English Literature
Book Review| April 01 2019 Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission by Anne Toner Toner, Anne, Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 255 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 447. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312561 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
How Words Make Things Happen by David Bromwich
Review Article| August 01 2020 How Words Make Things Happen by David Bromwich Bromwich, David, How Words Make Things Happen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 113 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 437–438. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8521585 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen…
Paper Minds
Book Review| April 01 2020 Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick Kramnick, Jonathan, Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 198 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 363. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8192899 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge
Book Review| January 01 2021 Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge Lodge, Sara, Inventing Edward Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), 436 pp. Miguel Tamen Miguel Tamen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 120–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8723263 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Miguel Tamen; Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge. Co…
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