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Kevin Newmark
associate professor of french
Education and Academic Degrees:
Ph.D. Yale, 1984; B.A. Holy Cross, 1974.
Fields of Research:
Nineteenth and twentieth-century prose and poetry; literary theory, and the relations between literature and philosophy.
Je suis pour—aucune illustration, tout ce qu’évoque un livre devant se passer dans l’esprit du lecteur. Stéphane Mallarmé
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
"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.
“In Memoriam: Of the Soul,” by Jacques Derrida, in The Lesson of Paul de Man, Yale French Studies, 69, 1985, 323-326.
Reprinted in The Work of Mourning, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Reprinted in Memoires for Paul de Man, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, xv-xx.
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