David R Shumway
Biographic Data
| ID | 986149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Shumway |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Shumway |
| SIGNATURE | SHUMWAY D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
What's a Heaven For?”
The University, Neoliberalism, and the Humanities: A History
Neoliberalism has since the 1970s had a significant negative impact on higher education in the U.S., but this ideology and political program is not solely to blame for the current situation of the humanities or the university. The American university was never the autonomous institution imagined by German idealists, but it was rather always strongly connected to both the state and civil society. Many of the cultural currents and social forces tha…
Rock Stars as Icons
Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven stars in the context of popular music and culture - Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead,…
Lennonyc
John Lennon moved to New York City in 1971 and lived in the United States, mostly in New York, until he was murdered in 1980. This is how one of the world's most famous British subjects can be called an “American master.” Of course, Lennon is hardly the first artist to be claimed as American who moved here after establishing a reputation on the basis of work produced in his or her native land. There is no doubt that Lennon's New York years repres…
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star by Lee Marshall
Fetishizing fetishism: Commodities, goods, and the meaning of consumer culture
Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers
Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers Oavid R. Shumway During the 1890s, the most popular gerne of prose fiction was the historical romance. According to Frank Luther Mott, a standard authority on the history of American best-sellers, 50% of the best sellers ofthat decade fit this category and historical romances continued to be the leading category of popular fiction until about 1914 (311-312). When such f…
The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline
Nationalist Knowledges: The Humanities and Nationality
Nationalism has been largely unrecognized as one of the rules of knowledge production. This is surprising in the case of the humanities where disciplinary boundaries often correspond to ones. The modern language disciplines such as French, German, and English study languages and literatures. The rise of nationalism and the development of the literary traditions by these disciplines are historically contemporary. To call something a is not merely …
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Journal Article Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline. By David R. Shumway. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8166-2188-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8166-2189-6.) Get access William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Creating American civilization: A genealogy of American literature as an academic discipline
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of American Literary History
Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage
As floating signifiers go, romance has gotten around more than usual. The term has long designated several different generic categories of prose fiction, as well as a particular kind of subject matter with which fiction, romance or novel, may deal. There are film genres, such as romantic comedy, that derive their identity from their concern with love and courtship. But in film studies, the term has additionally named both a self-conscious compone…
Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice
Research Article| October 01 1991 Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice David R. Shumway David R. Shumway Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (4): 753–769. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-90-4-753 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David R. Shumway; Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1991; 90 (…
Post-Foucaldian Strategies
Disciplinarity: An Introduction
Only recently have we begun to think of the discipline as an historically specific form. We have, since Mannheim (1936) and the beginnings of sociology of knowledge, recognized the possibility that knowledge may be constituted on the basis of ideological positions or other interests. We have also been aware of the ways that certain social structures, such as the research university or professionalism, have organized knowledge-production. But it w…
Intellectuals in the University
Disciplinarity: An Introduction
Only recently have we begun to think of the discipline as an historically specific form. We have, since Mannheim (1936) and the beginnings of sociology of knowledge, recognized the possibility that knowledge may be constituted on the basis of ideological positions or other interests. We have also been aware of the ways that certain social structures, such as the research university or professionalism, have organized knowledge-production. But it w…
Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage
As floating signifiers go, romance has gotten around more than usual. The term has long designated several different generic categories of prose fiction, as well as a particular kind of subject matter with which fiction, romance or novel, may deal. There are film genres, such as romantic comedy, that derive their identity from their concern with love and courtship. But in film studies, the term has additionally named both a self-conscious compone…
Fetishizing fetishism: Commodities, goods, and the meaning of consumer culture
Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven stars in the context of popular music and culture - Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead,…
Intellectuals in the University
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of American Literary History
Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage
As floating signifiers go, romance has gotten around more than usual. The term has long designated several different generic categories of prose fiction, as well as a particular kind of subject matter with which fiction, romance or novel, may deal. There are film genres, such as romantic comedy, that derive their identity from their concern with love and courtship. But in film studies, the term has additionally named both a self-conscious compone…
Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice
Research Article| October 01 1991 Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice David R. Shumway David R. Shumway Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (4): 753–769. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-90-4-753 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David R. Shumway; Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1991; 90 (…
Post-Foucaldian Strategies
Disciplinarity: An Introduction
Only recently have we begun to think of the discipline as an historically specific form. We have, since Mannheim (1936) and the beginnings of sociology of knowledge, recognized the possibility that knowledge may be constituted on the basis of ideological positions or other interests. We have also been aware of the ways that certain social structures, such as the research university or professionalism, have organized knowledge-production. But it w…
Creating American civilization: A genealogy of American literature as an academic discipline
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Journal Article Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline. By David R. Shumway. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8166-2188-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8166-2189-6.) Get access William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline
Nationalist Knowledges: The Humanities and Nationality
Nationalism has been largely unrecognized as one of the rules of knowledge production. This is surprising in the case of the humanities where disciplinary boundaries often correspond to ones. The modern language disciplines such as French, German, and English study languages and literatures. The rise of nationalism and the development of the literary traditions by these disciplines are historically contemporary. To call something a is not merely …
Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers
Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers Oavid R. Shumway During the 1890s, the most popular gerne of prose fiction was the historical romance. According to Frank Luther Mott, a standard authority on the history of American best-sellers, 50% of the best sellers ofthat decade fit this category and historical romances continued to be the leading category of popular fiction until about 1914 (311-312). When such f…
Fetishizing fetishism: Commodities, goods, and the meaning of consumer culture
Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star by Lee Marshall
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Lennonyc
John Lennon moved to New York City in 1971 and lived in the United States, mostly in New York, until he was murdered in 1980. This is how one of the world's most famous British subjects can be called an “American master.” Of course, Lennon is hardly the first artist to be claimed as American who moved here after establishing a reputation on the basis of work produced in his or her native land. There is no doubt that Lennon's New York years repres…
Rock Stars as Icons
Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven stars in the context of popular music and culture - Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead,…
The University, Neoliberalism, and the Humanities: A History
Neoliberalism has since the 1970s had a significant negative impact on higher education in the U.S., but this ideology and political program is not solely to blame for the current situation of the humanities or the university. The American university was never the autonomous institution imagined by German idealists, but it was rather always strongly connected to both the state and civil society. Many of the cultural currents and social forces tha…
What's a Heaven For?”
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
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