UCI Faculty Profile |
Professor, Comparative Literature
School of Humanities
PH.D., Yale University, 1965
B.A. Harvard
Phone: (949) 824-7230
Fax: (949) 824-1992
Email: agelley@uci.edu |
University of California, Irvine
420 Krieger Hall
Mail Code: 2651
Irvine, CA 92697
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Research
Interests |
Eighteenth-Century English and Comparative Literature; Nineteenth-Century English and Comparative Literature; Romanticism; Contemporary Theory; Literature and Philosophy; German-Jewish Literature and Culture |
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Academic
Distinctions |
Old Dominion Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, fall, 1999-2000; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1993-94; Fulbright Lectureship, The Hebrew University, Israel, 1988-89; Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Germany, 1975-76
Comments:
Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar for college and university teachers scheduled for summer, 2011, on "Walter Benjamin's Later Writings: The Arcades Project, Commodity Culture, Historiography." |
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Research
Abstract |
a) The modern novel and theories of narrative (German, French, English, American);
b) Rhetoric and ideology in literary language;
c) The history of literary theory from Romanticism to the present, with special attention to the Frankfurt School in the earlier 20th century;
d) Jewish-German culture and literature;
e) Walter Benjamin: aesthetics, literary theory, and urban culture. |
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Publications |
Narrative Crossings: Theory and Pragmatics of Prose Fiction. Johns Hopkins UP, 1987
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ed., Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity. Stanford UP, 1995 |
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"City Texts: Representation, Semiology, Urbanism." Politics, Theory and Contemporary Culture. Ed., Mark Poster, Columbia UP, 1993
"Melville's Talking-Man: Rhetoric in The Confidence Man." Rereading Texts/Rethinking Critical Presuppositions. Ed. S. Rimmon-Kenan, et al. Frankf/M., 1996
"Exemplarity." The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 4 vols, ed. Michael Kelly. Oxford UP, 1998, v. 4.
"On the Myth of the German-Jewish Dialogue: Scholem and Benjamin." JOUVERT: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies. (http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert), v.3, 1-2 (1999). Special Issue, "Religion Between Culture and Philosophy."
"Contexts of the Aesthetic in Walter Benjamin." MLN. 114.5 (Dec., 1999)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/v114/114.5gelley.html
"Idle Talk: Scarcity and Excess of Language in Narrative," in Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, ed. Shelley Salamensky, Routledge, 2001.
"On the Line," in Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come, eds. Barbara Cohen and Dragan Kujunzic, Fordham University Press, 2005
"Language of Order(s): Jenny Holzer in the Public Sphere," in Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood, eds. Gabriele Schwab and William Maurer, Columbia Univ. Press, 2006
"Epigones in the House of Language: Benjamin on Kraus,"
Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas - Volume 5, Number 1, January 2007, pp. 17-32
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/partial_answers/v005/5.1gelley.pdf |
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Research Center |
Critical Theory Institute (an ORU at UCI) |
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