Maud Ellmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 308375 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maud Ellmann |
| PRENOMES | Maud |
| SOBRENOME | Ellmann |
| ASSINATURA | ELLMANN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Play On
Isobel Armstrong contends that the aesthetic has been robbed of radical potential both by its leftist detractors, who denounce it as bourgeois mystification, and by its right-wing defenders, who insist on its transcendence of politics. Against both these positions she proposes a radical aesthetic centered in the concept of play, defined as “the primal experience of culture, the beginnings of representation and its phantasmic mobility and resource…
Only Trials in the Building
Veering and tunnelling
Veering and tunnelling are metaphors used by Nicholas Royle to characterise his unique style of reading. In his book The Uncanny, Royle uses footnotes to emulate the mole, a creature that tunnels underneath the surface. Royle's book Veering, on the other hand, takes its title from a sentence in Elizabeth Bowen's famous wartime story ‘Mysterious Kôr', in which a car is compared to a hornet veering into the unknown. The present article analyses two…
Laura Marcus and the train to Freud
This essay examines Laura Marcus’s chapter ‘Oedipus Express: Psychoanalysis and the Railways’ in her book Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014), which argues that the train and the railway journey are implicated in many of the fundamental principles of Freudian thought, including the Oedipus Complex. Extending Marcus’s insights, Ellmann shows how this motif of train-travel resurfaces in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Princip…
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies Investigates connections between literary modernism and other cultural forms such as journalism and literature in Irish; design, cinema, and stained glass; sexual mores and food etiquette; maps, waterways, and postage stamps Enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women p…
Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to …
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism showcases cutting-edge developments in Irish and modernist studies. Extending the timeline of modernism, the Companion reaches back to the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth century and forward to recent innovations in the arts. The Companion also calls for a more inclusive understanding of Irish modernism, drawing greater attention, for example, to the pioneering work of women and prompting a…
Vaccies Go Home!’
On September 1 1939 the British government launched a program ominously codenamed Operation Pied Piper, whereby thousands of children were evacuated from the cities to the countryside. This operation brought class conflict into the foreground, laying bare the drastic inequalities of British society, but also provided the foundations for the development of child psychoanalysis. This essay examines the impact of the evacuation crisis on psychoanaly…
In Tribute to John Forrester (1949–2015)
In Tribute to John Forrester (1949–2015) Maud Ellmann (bio), Sherry Turkle (bio), and Daniel Pick (bio) In this issue we remember John Forrester. An active, inspiring presence in the world of psychoanalysis across geographic and disciplinary boundaries, he opened new paths in psychoanalytic theory, the philosophy of psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic history. He did so in the first place as a historian of science and culture, in works such as Dis…
Emma Letley, Marion Milner
The Nets of Modernism
One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significan…
Cold noses at the Pearly Gates
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo, he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savager…
Writing like a rat
According to Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka's experiments with animality epitomise the responsibility of the artist: 'either stop writing, or write like a rat'. The present essay examines how modernist writing tackles this strange responsibility. The first section provides a brief synopsis of facts and fictions about rats, focusing on the animals' association with the networks of modernity; a further section examines the role of rats in Freud's case…
Elizabeth Bowen
Loose ends
Elizabeth Bowen
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617036); WINNER of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Literary Prize This study reveales both the pleasures offered by Elizabeth Bowen's works to the general reader and the literary critic, theorist and historian. Elizabeth Bowen was one of the finest writers of fiction in English in the twentieth century and one of the strangest. Born in 1899, her historical vision extends from the Irish Troubles o…
Lessness
The Woolf Woman
The Hunger Artists
The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation - whether by political hunger strikers or lone anorectics - is a puzzle of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology, Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesis, expression, and significance. How, she asks, has the act of eating become the metaphor for compliance, starvation the metaphor for protest? How does the rejection of foo…
The Poetics of Impersonality
Spacing Out
In Of Grammatology, D e r r i d a c o n t e n d s t h a t t h e ' f i r s t b r e a k i n t h e m o s t e n t r e n c h e d W e s t e r n t r a d i t i o n ' — t h a t is, t h e t y r a n n y o f ' s p e e c h ' a n d t h e s u p p r e s s i o n o f ' w r i t i n g ' — w a s a c c o m p l i s h e d in p o e t r y : in M a l l a r m e ' s ' i r r e d u c i b l y g r a p h i c p o e t i c s ' . (5 :92) . A s t h e V o / e / a c t e e ' o f M a l l …
The Hunger Artists
The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation - whether by political hunger strikers or lone anorectics - is a puzzle of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology, Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesis, expression, and significance. How, she asks, has the act of eating become the metaphor for compliance, starvation the metaphor for protest? How does the rejection of foo…
Elizabeth Bowen
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617036); WINNER of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Literary Prize This study reveales both the pleasures offered by Elizabeth Bowen's works to the general reader and the literary critic, theorist and historian. Elizabeth Bowen was one of the finest writers of fiction in English in the twentieth century and one of the strangest. Born in 1899, her historical vision extends from the Irish Troubles o…
Elizabeth Bowen
Cold noses at the Pearly Gates
Spacing Out
In Of Grammatology, D e r r i d a c o n t e n d s t h a t t h e ' f i r s t b r e a k i n t h e m o s t e n t r e n c h e d W e s t e r n t r a d i t i o n ' — t h a t is, t h e t y r a n n y o f ' s p e e c h ' a n d t h e s u p p r e s s i o n o f ' w r i t i n g ' — w a s a c c o m p l i s h e d in p o e t r y : in M a l l a r m e ' s ' i r r e d u c i b l y g r a p h i c p o e t i c s ' . (5 :92) . A s t h e V o / e / a c t e e ' o f M a l l …
The Poetics of Impersonality
The Woolf Woman
The Hunger Artists
The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation - whether by political hunger strikers or lone anorectics - is a puzzle of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology, Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesis, expression, and significance. How, she asks, has the act of eating become the metaphor for compliance, starvation the metaphor for protest? How does the rejection of foo…
Lessness
Loose ends
Elizabeth Bowen
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617036); WINNER of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Literary Prize This study reveales both the pleasures offered by Elizabeth Bowen's works to the general reader and the literary critic, theorist and historian. Elizabeth Bowen was one of the finest writers of fiction in English in the twentieth century and one of the strangest. Born in 1899, her historical vision extends from the Irish Troubles o…
Writing like a rat
According to Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka's experiments with animality epitomise the responsibility of the artist: 'either stop writing, or write like a rat'. The present essay examines how modernist writing tackles this strange responsibility. The first section provides a brief synopsis of facts and fictions about rats, focusing on the animals' association with the networks of modernity; a further section examines the role of rats in Freud's case…
Elizabeth Bowen
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo, he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savager…
The Nets of Modernism
One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significan…
Cold noses at the Pearly Gates
Emma Letley, Marion Milner
Vaccies Go Home!’
On September 1 1939 the British government launched a program ominously codenamed Operation Pied Piper, whereby thousands of children were evacuated from the cities to the countryside. This operation brought class conflict into the foreground, laying bare the drastic inequalities of British society, but also provided the foundations for the development of child psychoanalysis. This essay examines the impact of the evacuation crisis on psychoanaly…
In Tribute to John Forrester (1949–2015)
In Tribute to John Forrester (1949–2015) Maud Ellmann (bio), Sherry Turkle (bio), and Daniel Pick (bio) In this issue we remember John Forrester. An active, inspiring presence in the world of psychoanalysis across geographic and disciplinary boundaries, he opened new paths in psychoanalytic theory, the philosophy of psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic history. He did so in the first place as a historian of science and culture, in works such as Dis…
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism showcases cutting-edge developments in Irish and modernist studies. Extending the timeline of modernism, the Companion reaches back to the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth century and forward to recent innovations in the arts. The Companion also calls for a more inclusive understanding of Irish modernism, drawing greater attention, for example, to the pioneering work of women and prompting a…
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies Investigates connections between literary modernism and other cultural forms such as journalism and literature in Irish; design, cinema, and stained glass; sexual mores and food etiquette; maps, waterways, and postage stamps Enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women p…
Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to …
Laura Marcus and the train to Freud
This essay examines Laura Marcus’s chapter ‘Oedipus Express: Psychoanalysis and the Railways’ in her book Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014), which argues that the train and the railway journey are implicated in many of the fundamental principles of Freudian thought, including the Oedipus Complex. Extending Marcus’s insights, Ellmann shows how this motif of train-travel resurfaces in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Princip…
Play On
Isobel Armstrong contends that the aesthetic has been robbed of radical potential both by its leftist detractors, who denounce it as bourgeois mystification, and by its right-wing defenders, who insist on its transcendence of politics. Against both these positions she proposes a radical aesthetic centered in the concept of play, defined as “the primal experience of culture, the beginnings of representation and its phantasmic mobility and resource…
Only Trials in the Building
Veering and tunnelling
Veering and tunnelling are metaphors used by Nicholas Royle to characterise his unique style of reading. In his book The Uncanny, Royle uses footnotes to emulate the mole, a creature that tunnels underneath the surface. Royle's book Veering, on the other hand, takes its title from a sentence in Elizabeth Bowen's famous wartime story ‘Mysterious Kôr', in which a car is compared to a hornet veering into the unknown. The present article analyses two…
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