He served as consulting editor of the six-volume edition of The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli (2004) for which he wrote the General Introduction. He has also edited the Penguin Damon Runyon (2008). He has edited Joyce's The Dead (1994) and Conrad's The Secret Sharer (1997) in the Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series, and was coeditor of Narrative and Culture (1994). His prior books include Rereading Conrad (2001) Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (1997) Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens (1993), a Choice selection for best academic book of 1993 The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (1991) The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 (1989 revised 1995) Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' (Second Edition, 2004) The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller (1986) Conrad: The Later Fiction (1982) Conrad: 'Almayer's Folly' through 'Under Western Eyes' (1980) and Disraeli's Fiction (1979). He is the author of the recent In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (2008) in the prestigious Blackwell Manifesto series, Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (2004), Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (2003), as well as the widely read Imagining the Holocaust (1999). Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Termsĭaniel R. John Paul Riquelme, For Whom the Snow Taps: Style and Repetition in 'The Dead' Margot Norris, Not the Girl She Was at All: Women in 'The Dead' Michael Levenson, Living History in 'The Dead'įeminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography Rabinowitz, 'A Symbol of Something': Interpretive Vertigo in 'The Dead' Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography Schwarz, Gabriel Contoy's Psyche: Character as Concept in Joyce's 'The Dead' Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliographyĭaniel R. PART TWO: 'THE DEAD': A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts

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