Walter Benn Michaels
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 275098 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Walter Benn Michaels |
| PRENOMES | Walter Benn |
| SOBRENOME | Michaels |
| ASSINATURA | MICHAELS W B |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Cosmopolitanism Goes to Class
Chris Killip and LaToya Ruby Frazier
Since the 1970s-in effect, the rise of neoliberalism-efforts by photographers to represent the working class have been accompanied by a substantial diminution in the power of that class and by efforts to redescribe its members in both individualizing and racialized terms. Focusing on work made by the British photographer Chris Killip (in the late seventies and early eighties) and on work made by the American photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier (some…
The Beauty of a Social Problem
The Shape of the Signifier
Shape of the Signifier
Identity Politics
the disparity in rates, not in absolute num bers, that tends to get foregrounded, since that disparity functions not only as a measure of suffering but also, in William A. Garity s concise summary, as an index of discrimina tion in our society.2 And its the ongoing fact of discrimination that motivates our ongoing interest in identity politics. As long as inequality is apportioned by identity, we will be concerned with identity
Racisme, sexisme et mépris de classe
The Un-usable Past
Against Diversity
Tears and triumphs for race and gender have dominated discussion of the 2008 US election. Walter Benn Michaels argues that the Obama and Clinton campaigns are victories for neoliberalism, not over it—serving only to camouflage inequality
Empires of the Senseless
Research Article| January 01 2003 Empires of the Senseless: (The Response to) Terror and (the End of) History Walter Benn Michaels Walter Benn Michaels Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 105–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Walter Benn Michaels; Empires of the Senseless…
Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men
The Shape of the Signifier
Political Science Fictions
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 4, Autumn 2000
Local Colors
Local Colors Walter Benn Michaels (bio) 1 Despite its regional title and despite its glamorously regional hero, Henry James’s The Bostonians is not a piece of regional writing. Indeed, with respect to the literary project of representing to the metropole those aspects of American life that might otherwise have gone unrepresented, The Bostonians might more plausibly be characterized as an anti-regional novel. Offered the opportunity to provide a r…
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man
Our America
Our America
Our America
Journal Article Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. By Walter Benn Michaels. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. xii, 186 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-1700-1.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 660, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945042 Published: 01 S…
Our America
Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity - linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers suc…
Jim Crow Henry James?
The Henry James Review - Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 1995
Reply to John Searle
OHN SEARLE'S CRITICISMS of our account of interpretation all have to do with the distinction he draws between sentence meaning and speaker's or author's meaning-the distinction, that is, between the meaning a sequence of marks or noises can be said to have when treated as a token of a sentence type in a given language, and the meaning that same sequence of marks or noises acquires when someone intentionally produces it. We have argued that only t…
The No-Drop Rule
The New Modernism
Reply to George Wilson
Race into Culture
Against Theory
Race into Culture
The No-Drop Rule
Against Theory 2
The Beauty of a Social Problem
The Shape of the Signifier
Political Science Fictions
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 4, Autumn 2000
Identity Politics
the disparity in rates, not in absolute num bers, that tends to get foregrounded, since that disparity functions not only as a measure of suffering but also, in William A. Garity s concise summary, as an index of discrimina tion in our society.2 And its the ongoing fact of discrimination that motivates our ongoing interest in identity politics. As long as inequality is apportioned by identity, we will be concerned with identity
Our America
Journal Article Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. By Walter Benn Michaels. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. xii, 186 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-1700-1.) Get access Giles Gunn Giles Gunn University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 660, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945042 Published: 01 S…
An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life
YOUNG WOMEN IN DREISER'S AnAmerican Tragedy (1925) talk baby talk to the objects of their desire; that's what alerts us to the connection between Sondra Finchley's desire for Clyde Griffiths-Sondra so glad Clydie here, she tells him'-and Hortense Briggs's desire for the in the window of Rubenstein's fur store-Oh, if I could only have 'oo (103), Hortense says to the coat. Whether the girls understand themselves or the objects as infantilized by th…
Sister Carrie''s Popular Economy
Empires of the Senseless
Research Article| January 01 2003 Empires of the Senseless: (The Response to) Terror and (the End of) History Walter Benn Michaels Walter Benn Michaels Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 105–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Walter Benn Michaels; Empires of the Senseless…
Naturalism with a Difference
A Reply to Our Critics
Is There a Politics of Interpretation
Against Formalism
Walter Benn Michaels, Against Formalism: The Autonomous Text in Legal and Literary Interpretation, Poetics Today, Vol. 1, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Literature, Interpretation, Communication (Autumn, 1979), pp. 23-34
Writers Reading
Saving the Text
One of the few problems in literary theory which Anglo-American critics can with some justice claim as our own is the problem of belief. Which is not say that we have recently manifested much inclination enforce that claim. Rather, the debates over the relation between literature and belief which were once the staple of theoretical discourse in this country seem more-or-less have passed from the scene. And, in the wake of phenomenology, structura…
The Road to Vietnam
Nobody much likes the end of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, including, apparently, Coppola himself, who is reported to have changed a couple of times and who may be planning to change again. Accounts of what is wrong with the ending differ in detail, but they are united in thinking both pretentious and anticlimactic. Kurtz's (Marlon Brando's) reading from The Hollow Men is one of the high-water marks of pretention; another is his improvis…
Against Formalism
Walter Benn Michaels, Against Formalism: The Autonomous Text in Legal and Literary Interpretation, Poetics Today, Vol. 1, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Literature, Interpretation, Communication (Autumn, 1979), pp. 23-34
Sister Carrie''s Popular Economy
Fictitious Dealing
Is There a Politics of Interpretation
Against Theory
A Reply to Our Critics
A Reply to Richard Rorty
The American Renaissance Reconsidered
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
Research Article| January 01 1985 The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism Walter Benn Michaels Walter Benn Michaels Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1985) 9: 105–132. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043767 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
Against Theory 2
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena. It imagines a literary history that must at the same time be social, economic, and legal; and it imagines a literature that, to be understood a…
Naturalism with a Difference
An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life
YOUNG WOMEN IN DREISER'S AnAmerican Tragedy (1925) talk baby talk to the objects of their desire; that's what alerts us to the connection between Sondra Finchley's desire for Clyde Griffiths-Sondra so glad Clydie here, she tells him'-and Hortense Briggs's desire for the in the window of Rubenstein's fur store-Oh, if I could only have 'oo (103), Hortense says to the coat. Whether the girls understand themselves or the objects as infantilized by th…
The Contracted Heart
6T HEY ALL KNEW each other and felt like one large family, Kate Chopin writes of the society of Creoles Edna Pontellier marries into in The Awakening (1899).' Edna is not quite a member of this family and is in some degree scandalized by its behavior, which is to say, by the general absence of that characterizes Creole conversation and by the particular profusion of intimate detail in the harrowing story of the accouchements of the mother woman, …
The New Modernism
Reply to George Wilson
Race into Culture
Reply to John Searle
OHN SEARLE'S CRITICISMS of our account of interpretation all have to do with the distinction he draws between sentence meaning and speaker's or author's meaning-the distinction, that is, between the meaning a sequence of marks or noises can be said to have when treated as a token of a sentence type in a given language, and the meaning that same sequence of marks or noises acquires when someone intentionally produces it. We have argued that only t…
The No-Drop Rule
Our America
Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity - linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers suc…
Jim Crow Henry James?
The Henry James Review - Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 1995
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