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).
Kevin Newmark
Professor of French
Professor of French
romance languages and literatures
Academic Degrees
Ph.D. Yale; B.A. Holy Cross
Research Areas
Nineteenth and twentieth-century prose and poetry; literary theory, and the relations between literature and philosophy.
Books
Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
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.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
"Bewildering: Paul de Man, Poetry, Politics," MLN (Comparative Literature), 124:5 December, 2009, 1048-1071.
"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, pp. 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, pp. 107-120.
"Deconstruction," in Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence Kritzman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, pp. 29-35.
"On Parole: Blanchot, Saussure, Paulhan," Yale French Studies 106 (Special Issue: on Jean Paulhan) December 2004, pp. 87-106.
Recent Papers and Presentations
"Thinking Poorly: Some Wan Reflections of the Political in Baudelaire's Poetry," MLA, Philadelphia, December 2009.
"The Prose in Baudelaire's Poetry: Two Petits Poèmes en Prose," Seminar sponsored by the Comparative Literature and French Departments, Emory University, November 13, 2009.
"Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of 'Le Cygne'," Lecture sponsored by the Comparative Literature and French Departments, Emory University, November 12, 2009.
"Death in Venice: How the Arts put Society at Risk," The Arts in Society 4th International Conference, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy, July 2009.
"Bewildering: the Passage from Language to Politics in the Writing of Paul de Man," Lecture sponsored by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, International Conference, "Paul de Man's Political Archive," University of California Irvine, April 2009.
"Dark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace," EACLALS Triennial Conference, "Try Freedom," Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice, March 2008.
"Why Writers Love Venice: Ruskin, James, Mann, Proust and Brodsky," Lecture sponsored by the Venice International University Lecture Series, with Respondant Professor Rosella Zorzi from University of Venice (Ca’ Foscari), San Servolo, Venice, November 2007.
"À l'endroit de la littérature, la philosophie à l'envers," Lecture sponsored by the Départements de Philosophie et de Littérature, Colloque International, "Albert Camus: Littérature, Morale, Philosophie," École Normale Supérieure," Paris, March 2007.
"L’horizon du savoir: Emma Bovary comme modèle esthétique de la réception chez H. R. Jauss" Colloque International, "Mme Bovary et les Savoirs," Université de Paris III et Marne la Vallée, November 2006.
"Stormy Weather: the Crisis of History in Mallarmé's Verse," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, October 2005.
"Chance Encounters: Poetry, Theory, and History after Baudelaire," Lecture sponsored by the Department of French, Miami University of Ohio, March 2005.
"Why Poetry Matters: Baudelaire's Future Perfect," Lecture sponsored by the Department of French, Amherst College, December 2004.
"Tongue-tied: What Albert Camus' Fiction Couldn't Teach us about Ethics and Politics," International Conference: "Albert Camus in the Twenty-first Century," American University in Paris, September 2004.
"Shocked beyond Recognition: Baudelaire and the Poetry of Sociality," International Colloquium: "Socialité et Reconnaissance," Dixième colloque philosophique international franco-allemand, Évian-les-Bains, France, July 2004.
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