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
Positions
- Professor, 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
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journal article
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Hitchcock's cryptonomies, vol 1, Secret agents, vol 2, War machines..
Comparative Literature.
183-185.
2006
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Psychoanalysis and Racism: The Politics of Defeat.
Race and Class.
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. 167-186. 1990
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MISOGYNY, DIONYSIANISM AND A NEW MODEL OF GREEK TRAGEDY.
Womens Studies|.
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. 239-259. 1989
- KAFKA,FRANZ PARABLE 'ON PARABLES'. Cithara. 11-19. 1988
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Hitchcock's cryptonomies, vol 1, Secret agents, vol 2, War machines..
Comparative Literature.
183-185.
2006
Teaching
courses taught
- COML 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2019)
- HUMN 3930 Humanities Internship (Spring 2019)
- COML 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2018)
- HUMN 4135 Art and Psychoanalysis (Summer 2018)
- COML 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2018)
- HUMN 3930 Humanities Internship (Spring 2018)
- HUMN 4011 The Criminal-Hero (Spring 2018)
- HUMN 4135 Art and Psychoanalysis (Spring 2018)
- HUMN 4840 Independent Study (Spring 2018)
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1984
- B.A., SUNY at Buffalo 1978