Alex Murray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3593799 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alex Murray |
| PRENOMES | Alex |
| SOBRENOME | Murray |
| ASSINATURA | MURRAY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4306-3066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde
The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary and dramatic context. Its thirty-six contributors offer a readable guide to Wilde studies for the early twenty-first century. Its chapters reflect Wilde’s status as a queer writer while filling in the gaps that this focus has left and looking forward to the next generation of critical studies on Wilde. It is a volume designed for readers ranging from students and th…
Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde
Victorian Studies in Ireland
This essay offers a perspective on the forms that ‘Victorian’ studies scholarship takes on the island of Ireland, as reflected in the papers delivered, and the conversations that took place, at the Belfast Hub of EVENT 2024. It offers some account of how the historical and contemporary specificities of Ireland, and its relation to the United Kingdom and empire, might account for the distinctive tenor of twenty-first century scholarship on the Vic…
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. Power and Progress
Decadent Constantinople
This article examines the work of three British writers – Arthur Symons, James Elroy Flecker, and Harold Nicolson – who all spent time in Constantinople in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on the Decadent literary aesthetic, they registered their distaste for a city then synonymous with decline. In their poetry, impressionistic prose, and fiction they struggle to write about a city that seemed so amenable to a literature of…
Conservative
The conservative—as both a philosophy and a political ideology—was radically unstable in the Victorian period, and so too were its manifestations in the literary sphere. However, as one of the keynotes of Victorian politics, life, and literature, it raises some serious questions about the consequences for our scholarship that it remains relatively neglected and undertheorized. We should train ourselves to read for the conservative alongside the l…
Decadent Experience
At the core of literary decadence is a conflicted relationship with modernity. For some decadent writers, the onset of rapid social and technological change could usher in possibilities for living and loving in hitherto unimagined ways, yet for others of a more conservative hue, modernization was to be rejected, tradition embraced. This essay argues that experience can be used as a framework for articulating these very different forms of decadenc…
Britain and Ireland
British decadence has long been identified with London, the home of theaters and publishing houses. Most decadent writers lived and worked in the city, setting many of the great works of British decadence in its streets and squares. Yet decadence, as a literary style and a cultural concept, reached all parts of the United Kingdom, and in the process changed the nature of this literary tradition. Moving from Cornwall and Wales to the north of Irel…
Decadent Histories
The introduction to this volume sets out some of the challenges in defining and using the term ‘decadence’ to describe the literature covered by the chapters that follow. It begins by establishing the patterns for conservative dismissals of Decadent literature in responses to the Pre-Raphaelite poets in the 1870s, before turning to the hysteric anti-Decadent critique of Max Nordau. In opposition to these challenges to ‘decadence’ it surveys some …
Writing Decadent Lives and Letters
This chapter considers the importance of life writing to the development of Decadent literary production and to the afterlives of the Decadent movement. Beginning with Walter Pater, we explore the creative approach Decadent writers took to biography and the imagined fictional life. If Wilde, Pater, and John Addington Symonds established the pattern of Decadent life writing, Charles Ricketts and Laurence Housman deployed its practices and politics…
Decadence
Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of…
Jerusalem Building
Sylvia Townsend Warner's work is richly allusive, yet the precise purpose of her myriad references to, and echoes of, earlier works of literature often remains opaque. This essay explores one particular intertext in her work from the 1920s: the poetry of William Blake. In her essays, poetry, and in particular Lolly Willowes (1926), Warner, I argue, attempts to liberate Blake from both jingoistic nationalism and from progressive improvement. It is…
To see clearly
The work of John Dos Passos has been recognised for its acute visual qualities, and for the revolutionary use of the Camera Eye sections of his U.S.A. trilogy to capture subjective seeing. Most scholarship emphasises the role that cinema and modernist art played in the develop of Dos Passos's unique approach to vision, yet this essay argues there is a more fundamental source for vision in his novels: the author's treatment for visual impairment. …
Decadence in the Age of Modernism
Dainty malice: Ada Leverson and post-Victorian decadent feminism / Kristin Mahoney -- The ugly things of Salome / Ellen Crowell -- Decadent paths and percolations after 1895 / Nick Freeman -- "A poetess of no mean order": Margaret Sackville, women's poetry, and the legacy of aestheticism / Joseph Bristow -- The queer drift of Firbank / Ellis Hanson -- Burning the candle at both ends: Edna St. Vincent Millay's decadence / Sarah Parker -- Woolf and…
Through variously tinted cosmopolitan glasses”
Vernon Lee is regularly upheld as a model of late-Victorian cosmopolitanism, with her travel writing, in particular that dealing with Italy, displaying an openness to other places and cultures. Yet, as this essay argues, there is in Lee’s model of topographical writing a neglect of the people who live and dwell within landscapes. Examining in detail her critically neglected travel writing of the British Isles, published between 1899 and 1916, the…
Decadent Conservatism
The relationship between late-Victorian Decadence and Aestheticism and politics has long been vexed. This article explores the hitherto under-explored confluence of conservatism and avant-garde literature in the period by introducing The Senate, a Tory-Decadent journal that ran from 1894-7. While Decadent authors occupied various political positions, this article argues that The Senate offers a crucial link between conservatism and Decadence The …
‘The London Sunday Faded Slow’
This essay provides an overview of recent debates in Victorian studies over the ways in which we read urban space and literature. It places these debates in a broader theoretical and historical context, emphasizing the tension between a need to pay attention to the minutiae of city life on the one hand, and the politics of mapping space more broadly on the other. In order to crystallize these debates, the essay offers a survey of Victorian respon…
Re‐Visiting Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner was born in 1893 in Harrow and died in Dorset in 1978. Her writing career was both productive and diverse, spanning poems, short stories, novels, music reviews, a biography, translations of Proust, and a guide to Somerset. But this list, impressive as it is, does not do justice to the idiosyncrasy and heterogeneity of her work. While she is well known mostly for the seven novels she published, those works are all radically …
The Agamben Dictionary
Introduction: The Lexicographer and the Sovereign, Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte Entries A-Z Bibliography Further Reading Notes on Contributors
Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media
A balanced introduction to the 3 major Arab media channels: Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-ArabiaEl Mustapha Lahlali presents a detailed study of the three dominant Arab media channels and their role post-9/11. The Arab world is currently undergoing a radical media revolution, with the launch of numerous satellite and cable channels. The era of state-controlled media is coming to an end as privately-owned channels emerge. Provides a critical overvie…
Vestiges of the Phoenix
This essay examines the context surrounding Thomas De Quincey's 1846 essay, ‘System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse's Telescope’, placing it in relation to the thesis of Robert Chambers’ then anonymous proto-evolutionary Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. I argue that De Quincey's essay – which never mentions Vestiges – can be read as an attempt to refute the ‘succession’ model of evolution and development put forward by Chambe…
A gamben, G iorgio
The work of Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942) has been influential in political philosophy, legal theory, and cultural studies, with his critique of the Western political and juridical traditions gaining him a wide readership in the past 10 years. Yet his work is much broader in scope and his more than 15 book‐length projects have explored a diverse range of areas. His early education saw the influence of Martin Heidegger, whose understanding of the rela…
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the ‘war on terror’. Alex Murray explains Agamben’s key ideas, including: an overview of his work from first publication to the present clear analysis of Agamben’s philosophy of language and life theories of ethics and ‘witnessing’ t…
The Power of Thought
The Work of Giorgio Agamben
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748634620'); 'More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that philosophy is also a matter of style and politics a matter of poetics. This book explores the unexpected and illuminating paths that his work traces across the territories of law and literature, linguistics, dance or cinema, in search of a new idea and practice of the community. It offers an irreplaceable introduction to one of the most…
Housing the Homeless and Poor
Acquiescing into a facile Orthodoxy
The Work of Giorgio Agamben
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748634620'); 'More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that philosophy is also a matter of style and politics a matter of poetics. This book explores the unexpected and illuminating paths that his work traces across the territories of law and literature, linguistics, dance or cinema, in search of a new idea and practice of the community. It offers an irreplaceable introduction to one of the most…
The work of Giorgio Agamben
The Power of Thought
A gamben, G iorgio
The work of Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942) has been influential in political philosophy, legal theory, and cultural studies, with his critique of the Western political and juridical traditions gaining him a wide readership in the past 10 years. Yet his work is much broader in scope and his more than 15 book‐length projects have explored a diverse range of areas. His early education saw the influence of Martin Heidegger, whose understanding of the rela…
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the ‘war on terror’. Alex Murray explains Agamben’s key ideas, including: an overview of his work from first publication to the present clear analysis of Agamben’s philosophy of language and life theories of ethics and ‘witnessing’ t…
The Agamben Dictionary
Introduction: The Lexicographer and the Sovereign, Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte Entries A-Z Bibliography Further Reading Notes on Contributors
Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media
A balanced introduction to the 3 major Arab media channels: Al-Jazeera, Al-Hurra and Al-ArabiaEl Mustapha Lahlali presents a detailed study of the three dominant Arab media channels and their role post-9/11. The Arab world is currently undergoing a radical media revolution, with the launch of numerous satellite and cable channels. The era of state-controlled media is coming to an end as privately-owned channels emerge. Provides a critical overvie…
Vestiges of the Phoenix
This essay examines the context surrounding Thomas De Quincey's 1846 essay, ‘System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse's Telescope’, placing it in relation to the thesis of Robert Chambers’ then anonymous proto-evolutionary Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. I argue that De Quincey's essay – which never mentions Vestiges – can be read as an attempt to refute the ‘succession’ model of evolution and development put forward by Chambe…
‘The London Sunday Faded Slow’
This essay provides an overview of recent debates in Victorian studies over the ways in which we read urban space and literature. It places these debates in a broader theoretical and historical context, emphasizing the tension between a need to pay attention to the minutiae of city life on the one hand, and the politics of mapping space more broadly on the other. In order to crystallize these debates, the essay offers a survey of Victorian respon…
Re‐Visiting Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner was born in 1893 in Harrow and died in Dorset in 1978. Her writing career was both productive and diverse, spanning poems, short stories, novels, music reviews, a biography, translations of Proust, and a guide to Somerset. But this list, impressive as it is, does not do justice to the idiosyncrasy and heterogeneity of her work. While she is well known mostly for the seven novels she published, those works are all radically …
Decadent Conservatism
The relationship between late-Victorian Decadence and Aestheticism and politics has long been vexed. This article explores the hitherto under-explored confluence of conservatism and avant-garde literature in the period by introducing The Senate, a Tory-Decadent journal that ran from 1894-7. While Decadent authors occupied various political positions, this article argues that The Senate offers a crucial link between conservatism and Decadence The …
Decadence in the Age of Modernism
Dainty malice: Ada Leverson and post-Victorian decadent feminism / Kristin Mahoney -- The ugly things of Salome / Ellen Crowell -- Decadent paths and percolations after 1895 / Nick Freeman -- "A poetess of no mean order": Margaret Sackville, women's poetry, and the legacy of aestheticism / Joseph Bristow -- The queer drift of Firbank / Ellis Hanson -- Burning the candle at both ends: Edna St. Vincent Millay's decadence / Sarah Parker -- Woolf and…
Through variously tinted cosmopolitan glasses”
Vernon Lee is regularly upheld as a model of late-Victorian cosmopolitanism, with her travel writing, in particular that dealing with Italy, displaying an openness to other places and cultures. Yet, as this essay argues, there is in Lee’s model of topographical writing a neglect of the people who live and dwell within landscapes. Examining in detail her critically neglected travel writing of the British Isles, published between 1899 and 1916, the…
Britain and Ireland
British decadence has long been identified with London, the home of theaters and publishing houses. Most decadent writers lived and worked in the city, setting many of the great works of British decadence in its streets and squares. Yet decadence, as a literary style and a cultural concept, reached all parts of the United Kingdom, and in the process changed the nature of this literary tradition. Moving from Cornwall and Wales to the north of Irel…
Decadent Histories
The introduction to this volume sets out some of the challenges in defining and using the term ‘decadence’ to describe the literature covered by the chapters that follow. It begins by establishing the patterns for conservative dismissals of Decadent literature in responses to the Pre-Raphaelite poets in the 1870s, before turning to the hysteric anti-Decadent critique of Max Nordau. In opposition to these challenges to ‘decadence’ it surveys some …
Writing Decadent Lives and Letters
This chapter considers the importance of life writing to the development of Decadent literary production and to the afterlives of the Decadent movement. Beginning with Walter Pater, we explore the creative approach Decadent writers took to biography and the imagined fictional life. If Wilde, Pater, and John Addington Symonds established the pattern of Decadent life writing, Charles Ricketts and Laurence Housman deployed its practices and politics…
Decadence
Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of…
Jerusalem Building
Sylvia Townsend Warner's work is richly allusive, yet the precise purpose of her myriad references to, and echoes of, earlier works of literature often remains opaque. This essay explores one particular intertext in her work from the 1920s: the poetry of William Blake. In her essays, poetry, and in particular Lolly Willowes (1926), Warner, I argue, attempts to liberate Blake from both jingoistic nationalism and from progressive improvement. It is…
To see clearly
The work of John Dos Passos has been recognised for its acute visual qualities, and for the revolutionary use of the Camera Eye sections of his U.S.A. trilogy to capture subjective seeing. Most scholarship emphasises the role that cinema and modernist art played in the develop of Dos Passos's unique approach to vision, yet this essay argues there is a more fundamental source for vision in his novels: the author's treatment for visual impairment. …
Decadent Experience
At the core of literary decadence is a conflicted relationship with modernity. For some decadent writers, the onset of rapid social and technological change could usher in possibilities for living and loving in hitherto unimagined ways, yet for others of a more conservative hue, modernization was to be rejected, tradition embraced. This essay argues that experience can be used as a framework for articulating these very different forms of decadenc…
Decadent Constantinople
This article examines the work of three British writers – Arthur Symons, James Elroy Flecker, and Harold Nicolson – who all spent time in Constantinople in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on the Decadent literary aesthetic, they registered their distaste for a city then synonymous with decline. In their poetry, impressionistic prose, and fiction they struggle to write about a city that seemed so amenable to a literature of…
Conservative
The conservative—as both a philosophy and a political ideology—was radically unstable in the Victorian period, and so too were its manifestations in the literary sphere. However, as one of the keynotes of Victorian politics, life, and literature, it raises some serious questions about the consequences for our scholarship that it remains relatively neglected and undertheorized. We should train ourselves to read for the conservative alongside the l…
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. Power and Progress
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