research overview
- Currently working on the relation of art to synesthesia. Other areas: Hitchcock, Freud, Nietzsche, Kafka, literary theory, aesthetics, psychoanalysis.
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Gordon, Paul Professor Emerita/Emeritus
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Humanities
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- aesthetics, art and philosophy, literary theory, film, psychoanalysis, rhetoric
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- Schopenhauer and the Metaphysics of Music. 256-270. 2020
- Approaching Angels: The Case for The Case for a Humanistic Poetics. 1-14. 2012
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journal article
- Judith and Beatrix: Oedipal Echo-Effects in Kill Bill. American Imago: psychoanalysis and the human sciences. 49-66. 2019
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Hitchcock's cryptonomies, vol 1, Secret agents, vol 2, War machines..
Comparative Literature.
183-185.
2006
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Illustrationof J. Hillis Miller.
Word and Image.
83-97.
2006
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Psychoanalysis and Racism: The Politics of Defeat.
Race and Class: a journal of racism, empire and globalisation.
17-34.
2001
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Lord Jim,Paul de Man, and the debate between deconstructive and humanistic criticism.
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
65-84.
1998
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NIETZSCHE,FRIEDRICH ON RHETORIC AND LANGUAGE - GILMAN,SL, BLAIR,C, PARENT,DJ.
Metaphor and Symbol.
103-107.
1992
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SALOME AND THE DANCE OF WRITING - PORTRAITS OF MIMESIS IN LITERATURE - MELTZER,F.
Metaphor and Symbol.
307-310.
1991
- SOMETIMES A CIGAR IS NOT JUST A CIGAR - A FREUDIAN ANALYSIS OF UNCLE-CHARLES IN HITCHCOCK 'SHADOW OF A DOUBT'. Literature-Film Quarterly. 267-276. 1991
- FREUD 'ON THE ANTITHETICAL SENSE OF PRIMARY WORDS' - PSYCHOANALYSIS, ART, AND THE ANTITHETICAL SENSES. Style (DeKalb). 167-186. 1990
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MISOGYNY, DIONYSIANISM AND A NEW MODEL OF GREEK TRAGEDY.
Womens Studies: an interdisciplinary journal|1699 Other Studies in Human Society.
211-218.
1990
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THE ENIGMA OF ARISTOTELIAN METAPHOR - A DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS.
Metaphor and Symbol.
83-90.
1990
- ROMANTICISM, FIGURATION AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. Neohelicon: acta comparationis litterarum universarum. 239-259. 1989
- KAFKA,FRANZ PARABLE 'ON PARABLES'. Cithara. 11-19. 1988
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1984
- B.A., SUNY at Buffalo 1978