Kevin Newmark

associate professor of french



At a glance...
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Je suis pour—aucune illustration, tout ce qu’évoque un livre devant se passer dans l’esprit du lecteur. Stéphane Mallarmé


Associate Professor of French
Romance Languages & Literatures Dept.

newmark@bc.edu


Lyons Hall 304
140 Commonwealth Ave
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

617-552-8497

Education and Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. Yale, 1984; B.A. Holy Cross, 1974.


Fields of Research
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Nineteenth and twentieth-century prose and poetry; literary theory, and the relations between literature and philosophy.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Articles:

"Dark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace," forthcoming.

"L'horizon du savoir: Emma Bovary comme modèle esthétique de la réception chez H.R. Jauss," Madame Bovary et les Savoirs, ed. Pierre-Louis Rey and Gisèle Séginger.  (Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne-nouvelle, 2009), 303-311.

"Tongue-tied: What Albert Camus' Fiction Couldn't Teach us about Ethics and Politics,"  in Albert Camus in the 21st Century. Eds. Christine Margerrison, Mark Orme, and Lissa Lincoln. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press" 2008, 107-120.

"Deconstruction," in Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence Kritzman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 29-35.

"On Parole: Blanchot, Saussure, Paulhan," Yale French Studies (Special Issue: on Jean Paulhan), December, 2004, 87-106.

"Danser le jazz: de La Nausée à L'Invitée," Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Volume 20, 2003-04, 18-29.

"Deconstruction: see elsewhere, la différance, la dissémination, for example," in Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Jonathan Culler (London, New York: Routledge, 2003), 28-40.

"Off the Charts: Walter Benjamin's Depiction of Baudelaire," Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity, ed. Patricia Ward (Nashville: University of Vanderbilt Press, 2000), 72-84.

"Translators, Inc.: Kierkegaard, Benjamin, Mallarmé & Co.," parallax 14 (Special Issue: Translator's Ink), January-March, 2000, 39-55.

Books, Edited Books, and Translations:

Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991).

Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers, by Paul de Man, ed. with E.S. Burt and Andrzej Warminski (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, Paperback reprint, 1996).

Aparté: Conceptions and Deaths of Søren Kierkegaard, by Sylviane Agacinski, translation from the French with Critical Introduction and Notes (Tallahassee: Florida State Press, 1988).

Phantom Proxies: Symbolism and the Rhetoric of History, Special Editor and Contributor, Yale French Studies 74, 1988.

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