Anthropoetics IV, 2 Benchmarks
Tom Bertonneau's article on The Golden Bowl, a companion
piece to
his
analysis of James' The Bostonians in Anthropoetics I, 1,
was written for a collection of essays on American literature. Matt
Schneider's text is a selection from the book he is currently finishing
on the Beatles and the lyric tradition.
Richard van Oort's study
of Coriolanus is adapted from a term paper for the GA seminar
in Spring 1997. Stacey Meeker's article on Richard Rorty and utopia
is adapted from a seminar paper.
About our Contributors
Tom Bertonneau, an original member of the GA seminar, received his
Ph.D. from UCLA in Comparative Literature in 1990. His dissertation applied
GA to the study of the modern epic: William Carlos Williams' Paterson and
Stéphane Mallarmé's "Un coup de dés..." Since then
he has published and presented papers on Williams, Wallace Stevens, Charles
Olson, and other American authors, as well as on theoretical topics (and
science fiction). Tom has also written for Heterodoxy, Chronicles,
Academic
Questions, and National Review, and is well known in Michigan
for his controversial writings on college English teaching. He is Executive
Director of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
Matthew Schneider, also a founding member of the GA seminar (who
has managed to attend some portion of the seminar every year it has been
given) holds an MA from Chicago and received his PhD in English from UCLA
in 1991. The author of Original Ambivalence: Violence and Autobiography
in Thomas De Quincey (Peter Lang, 1995), Schneider has also published
articles on Jane Austen, John Keats, and critical theory. He is associate
professor of English and Chair of Literature at Chapman University (Orange,
California).
Richard van Oort is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University
of California, Irvine. He is writing a dissertation on comedy and originary
aesthetics. His most recent publication is "Three Models of Fiction: The
Logical, the Phenomenological, and the Anthropological (Searle, Ingarden,
Gans)" which appears in the 1998 summer issue of New Literary History.
Stacey Meeker, a member of the Anthropoetics Editorial
Board, holds an M.A. in French from the University of Kansas. She is currently
working on a doctoral dissertation on Marcel Proust at UCLA.
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