Steven
Connor: Publications, 1980-
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Books Charles Dickens (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1985) 184 pp.
Samuel Beckett:
Repetition, Theory and Text (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1988) 222 pp.
Postmodernist
Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989) 274 pp.
--------------- 2nd, revised and enlarged edn (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1996) 327 pp.
Theory and Cultural
Value (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992), 276 pp.
The English Novel in
History, 1950 to 1995 (London: Routledge, 1995).
James Joyce
(Exeter: Northcote House, 1996).
Dumbstruck: A Cultural History
of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
450 pp.
The Book of Skin
(London: Reaktion; Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2004) 304 pp.
Fly (London: Reaktion, 2006)
The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal (London:
Reaktion, 2010) 374 pp
Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (London:
Profile, 2011) 247 pp
A Philosophy of Sport (London: Reaktion, 2011) 232 pp
Edited Books
(ed.) Samuel
Beckett's `Waiting for Godot' and `Endgame': A New
Casebook (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992)
(ed.) Charles Dickens, Oliver
Twist, (`Everyman Dickens', London: Dent, 1994),
edited with introduction, notes and guide to criticism.
(ed.) Charles Dickens, The
Mystery of Edwin Drood (`Everyman Dickens', London:
Dent, 1996), edited with introduction, notes and guide to
criticism.
(ed.) Charles
Dickens (London: Longman 'Critical Readers', 1996).
(ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004).
(ed). Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (London: Faber, 2010)
Essays in Books
`Myth and Metamyth in
Max Muller and Walter Pater', in The Sun Is God:
Painting, Literature and Mythology in the Nineteenth
Century, ed. J.B. Bullen (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988), pp. 199-224.
`The Birth of Humility:
J.G. Frazer and Victorian Mythography', in Sir James
Frazer and the Literary Imagination, ed. Robert
Fraser (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 61-80.
`Space, Repetition and
Theatre in Beckett', in Rethinking Beckett, ed.
Lance St. John Butler (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp.
1-19.
`The Spaces of
Criticism: Centre and Margin in Structuralism and
Post-Structuralism', in Encyclopaedia of Literature
and Criticism, ed. Martin Coyle, Peter Garside,
Malcolm Kelsall and John Peck (London: Routledge, 1990),
pp. 736-49.
`Points of Departure:
Deconstruction and John Ashbery's "Sortes
Vergilianae" ', in Contemporary Poetry Meets
Modern Theory, ed. Antony Easthope and John O.
Thompson (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1991),
pp. 5-18.
`Between Theatre and
Theory: Long Observation of the Ray', in The Ideal
Core of the Onion: Reading Beckett Archives, ed. John
Pilling and Mary Bryden (Reading: Beckett International
Foundation, 1992), pp. 79-98.
`Authority, Authorship
and Self-Reference in Joyce and Beckett', in Re: Joyce
and Beckett, ed. Phyllis Carey and Edwin Jewinski
(New York: Fordham University Press, 1992), pp. 147-59.
`Aesthetics, Pleasure
and Value', in The Politics of Pleasure: Aesthetics
and Cultural Theory, ed. Stephen Regan (Buckingham
and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992), pp.
203-20.
`Modernism and
Postmodernism', in Companion to Aesthetics, ed.
David Cooper (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 288-93.
`Over Samuel Beckett's
Dead Body', in Beckett in Dublin, ed. Steve Wilmer
(Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1992), pp. 100-09.
`Between Earth and Air:
Value, Culture and Futurity', in Mapping the Futures:
Local Cultures, Global Change, ed. Jon Bird, Barry
Curtis, Tim Putnam, George Robertson and Lisa Tickner
(London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 229-36.
` "All Twined
Together...So Much Toil and Play": Beckett's Ludic
Travail', in Surprised By Scenes: Essays in Honour of
Yasanuri Takahashi, ed. Yasanuri Takada (Tokyo:
Kenkyusha, 1993), pp. 23-43.
`In Exemplification', in
The State of Theory, ed. Richard Bradford (London:
Routledge, 1993), pp. 35-54.
`The Necessity of
Value', in Principled Positions: Postmodernism and the
Recovery of Value, ed. Judith Squires (London:
Lawrence and Wishart, 1993), pp. 31-49.
`"Jigajiga...Yummyyum...Pfuiiiiiii!...Bbbbblllllblblblblobschb!":
"Circe" 's Ventriloquy', in Reading Joyce's
`Circe'(European Joyce Studies, 3), ed. Andrew
Gibson, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994), pp. 93-142.
` "Beware of
Imitations": Joyce, Beckett and the Logical Machine
of Mimesis', in In Principle, Beckett is Joyce,
ed. Friedhelm Rathjen (Edinburgh: Split Pea Press, 1994),
pp. 29-44.
`The Imaginary and the
Symbolic in Great Expectations' in Great Expectations:
A New Casebook, ed. Roger Sell (Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1994), pp. 166-76. Reprinted from Charles
Dickens, 1985.
'Rewriting Wrong: On the
Ethics of Literary Reversion', in Liminal
Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (Post-)Colonial, and
the (Post-)Feminist, ed. Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens
(Amsterdam and Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, 1994), pp. 79-97.
'British Surrealist
Poetry in the 1930s', in British Poetry 1900-50:
Aspects of Tradition, ed. Gary Day and Brian Docherty
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995), pp. 169-92.
`Postmodern
Performance', in Analysing Performance: A Critical
Reader, ed. Patrick Campbell (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1995), pp. 107-24.
`Reading: The
Contretemps', in Strategies of Reading: Dickens and
After, ed. Nicola Bradbury (Yearbook of English
Studies, Vol 26, 1996), pp. 232-48.
`Deconstructing Hard
Times' in David Copperfield and Great Expectations: A
New Casebook, ed. John Peck (Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1995), pp. 155-70. Reprinted from Charles Dickens,
1985.
` "I...AM
A...": Addressing the Jewish Question in Joyce's
Ulysses', in The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the
Construction of Identity, ed. Tamar Garb and Linda
Nochlin (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995), pp. 219-32.
`Babel Unbuilding: The
Anti-Archi-Rhetoric of Martin Chuzzlewit', in Dickens
Refigured: Bodies, Desire and Other Histories, ed.
John Schad (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1996), pp. 178-99.
`After Cultural Value:
Ecology, Ethics and Aesthetics', in Ethics and
Aesthetics: The Moral Turn of Postmodernism, ed.
Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung (Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 1996), pp. 1-12
`Space, Place and the
Body of Riot in Barnaby Rudge', in Charles
Dickens, ed. Steven Connor (London and New York:
Longman `Critical Reader', 1996), pp. 211-29.
`Cultural Sociology and
Cultural Sciences', in The Blackwell Companion to
Social Theory, ed. Bryan S. Turner (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1996), pp. 340-68.
`Beckett's
Interdictions', in International Aspects of Irish
Literature, ed. Toshi Furomoto, George Hughes,
Chizuko Inoue, James McElwain, Peter McMillan and Tetsuro
Sano (Gerrard's Cross: Colin Smythe, 1996), pp. 313-22.
`The Modern Auditory I',
in Rewriting the Self: Histories From the Renaissance
to the Present, ed. Roy Porter (London and New York:
Routledge, 1996), pp. 203-23.
` "From the House
of Bondage to the Wilderness of Inhabitation": The
Domestic Economies of "Ithaca" ', Reading
Joyce's 'Ithaca', ed. Andrew Gibson (Amsterdam and
Atlanta GA: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 199-226.
`Feel the Noise: Excess,
Affect and the Acoustic', in Emotion in Postmodernism,
ed. Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung (Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 1997), pp. 147-62.
`Raymond Williams's
Time', in Raymond Williams Now: Knowledge, Limits and
the Future, ed. Jeff Wallace, Rod Jones and Sophie
Nield (London: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 163-80.
'Echo's Bones: Myth,
Modernity and the Vocalic Uncanny', in Myth and the
Making of Modernity, ed. Michael Bell and Peter
Poellner (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998), pp.
213-35.
`The Ethics of the
Voice', in Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and
Responsibility, ed. Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods
(London and New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's, 1999), pp.
220-37.
`The Machine in the
Ghost: Spiritualism, Technology and the "Direct
Voice" ', in Ghosts: Deconstruction,
Psychoanalysis, History, ed. Peter Buse (London:
Macmillan, 1999), pp. 203-25.
'Auf schwankendem
Boden', Samuel Beckett, Bruce Nauman (Vienna:
Kunsthalle Wien, 2000), pp. 80-7. English version.
'Satan and Sybil: Talk,
Possession and Dissociation', in Talk Talk Talk: The
Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, ed. S.I.
Salemensky (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp.
163-80.
'Seeing Feelingly', in The Nature of the Beast:
Peter Randall-Page, New Sculpture, Drawings and Prints
(Nottingham: Djanogly Art Gallery, 2001), pp. 2-7.
'Mortification', in Thinking
Through The Skin, ed. Sara Ahmed and Jackie Stacey
(London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 36-51.
'Foreword: Coming to
Be', in Becoming Human: New Psepectives on the Inhuman
Condition, ed. Paul Sheehan (Westport, CT and London:
Praeger, 2003), pp. ix-xvi.
'Toward a New Demonology', in Becoming Human: New Perspectives on the Inhuman Condition, ed. Paul
Sheehan (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2003),
pp.103-111.
'Topologie: Michel
Serres e le forme del pensiero', trans. Chiara Battisti
and Sidia Fiorato, in Letteratura e scienzia, ed.
Daniela Carpi (Bologna: Re Enzo Editrice, 2003), pp.
199-214. (Italian translation of Topologies: Michel Serres and the
Shapes of Thought).
'What Can Cultural
Studies Do?' in Interrogating Cultural Studies:
Interviews in Cultural Theory, Practice and Politics,
ed. Paul Bowman (London: Pluto Press, 2003).
The Help of Your
Good Hands: Reports on Clapping, in The
Auditory Culture Reader, ed. Michael Bull and Les
Back (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003), pp. 67-76.
'Afterword', in The
Victorian Supernatural, ed. Nicola Bown, Carolyn
Burdett and Pamela Thurschwell (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004), pp. 258-77.
'Edison's
Teeth; Touching Hearing', in Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound,
Listening, and Modernity, ed. Veit Erlmann (Oxford and New York:
Berg, 2004), pp. 153-72.
'The
Strains of the Voice', trans. (into German), Holger Wölfle, in
Phonorama: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Stimme als Medium (Berlin:
Matthes and Seitz, 2004), pp. 158-72.
'Modernity and Myth', in The Cambridge
History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, ed. Laura Marcus
and Peter Nicholls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004),
pp. 251-68.
'Michel
Serres's Les Cinq Sens', in Mapping Michel Serres,
ed. Niran Abbas (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), pp.
153-69.
'Postmodernism Grown Old', in Cul'tura
Post: At The Crossroads of Cultures and Civilisations, ed. Maria
K. Popova and Vladimir V Strukov (Voronezh: Voronezh State University
Press, 2005), pp. 55-72.
'Rough Magic: Screens', in Thinking Organization, ed. Stephen Linstead and Alison Linstead (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 183-90.
'Beckett's
Atmospheres', in Beckett After Beckett, ed. S.E. Gontarski
and Anthony Uhlmann (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2006),
pp. 52-65.
'Building Breathing Space', in Going Aerial: Air, Art, Architecture, ed. Monika Bakke (Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Akademie, 2007), pp. 118-34.
'Alexandre Vattemare - Ventriloquist', in The Extravagant Ambassador: The True Story of Alexandre Vattemare, The French Ventriloquist Who Changed the World, ed. Earle Havens and Pierre-Alain Tilliette (Boston: Boston Public Library/Paris: Paris Bibliothèques, 2007), pp. 150-7. Published simultaneously in French as 'Alexandre Vattemare, Ventriloque', in L'Ambassadeur extravagant: Alexandre Vattemare, ventriloque et pionnier des échanges culturels internationaux, ed. Earle Havens and Pierre-Alain Tilliette (Boston: Boston Public Library/Paris: Paris Bibliothèques, 2007), pp. 150-7.
‘Pregnable of Eye: X-rays, Vision and Magic’, in Philip Warnell, The Girl With X-Ray Eyes (Leamington Spa: Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Warwick Arts Centre, 2008), pp. 73-88.
‘Overlooking’, in Witness: Memory, Representation, and the Media in Question, ed. Ulrik Ekman and Frederik Tygstrup (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008), pp. 291-302.
'Introduction', Michel Serres, The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (I), trans. Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley (London: Continuum, 2008), pp. 1-16.
‘Atmospherics’, in Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology , ed. Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp. 159-74.
‘Beckett and the World’, in Beckett and Ethics, ed. Russell Smith (London: Continuum, 2009), pp. 134-46.
'Phonophobia: The Dumb Devil of Stammering', in Resonant Bodies, Voices, Memories, ed. Anke Bangma, Deirdre M. Donoghue, Lina Issa and Katarina Zdjelar (Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, 2009), pp. 132-44.
'The Fizziness Business', in The Body and the Arts, ed.
Corinnne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton (Basingstoke
and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 55-71.
'A Short Stirring to Meekness', in Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities, ed. Carolyn Birdsall, Maria Boletski, Itay Sapir and Pieter Verstraete (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 193-208.
'Beckett and Sartre: The Nauseous Character of All Flesh', in Beckett
and Phenomenology, ed. Ulrika Maude and Mathew Feldman (London:
Continuum, 2009), pp. 56-76.
'Incidents of the Breath: In Pneumatic and Electric Ventriloquisms', in Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture and Performance, ed. Aura Satz and Jon Wood (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 63-80.
‘I Switch Off: Beckett and the Ordeals of Radio’, in Broadcasting
Modernism, ed. Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle and Jane Lewty
(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2009), pp. 274-93.
'I Believe
That the World', in Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media
and Narratives, ed. Vera Nünning, Ansgar Nünning
and Birgit Neumann (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2010), pp.
29-46.
'Beckett and the Loutishness of learning', in Samuel Beckett:
Debts and Legacies, ed. Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, Matthijs
Engelberts and Dirk van Hulle (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010),
pp. pp. 255-73 .
'A Philosophy of Fidgets', in Touched, ed. Paul Domela
(Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2011), pp. 30-7.
'Rage, Rage Against the Dying of Delight', in Crrritic! Sighs,
Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes, Disasters, Letters of Resignation,
and Various Other Noises Off in These the First and Last Days of
Literary Criticism ... Not to Mention the University, ed. John
Schad and Oliver Tearle (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011),
pp. 63-78.
'Personifikationen/Personifications', in Ars Viva 2011-12:
Sprache/Language: Erik Bünger, Philipp Goldbach, Jeurgen Stach
(Berlin: Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, 2011), pp. 34-47.
'-sistence', in Nina Canell, Into The Eyes As Ends of Hair
(London: Cubitt Gallery, 2012), pp. 5-16.
'De Profundis Clamavi', in Mikhail Karikis and Uriel Orlow, Sounds
From Beneath (Brussels: Sub Rosa, 2012), pp. 20-23.
'Mutatis Mutandis', in Annie Cattrell, (Inverness: Timepsan
and Inverness Museum and Gallery, 2012), pp. 31-41.
'Accidence', in (.) Imogen Stidworthy (London: Matt's
Gallery/Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie, 2012), pp. 63-79.
'Soft Machines: Looking Through X-rays', in The Moderns: Wie sich das 20. Jahrhundert in Kunst und Wissenschaft erfunden hat, ed. Cathrin Pichler and Susanne Neuburger (New York and Vienna: Springer, 2012), pp. 207-18.
‘Sounding Out Film’, in The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, ed. John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman and Carol Vernallis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 107-20.
‘Exhaust: On Aerial Rejectamenta’, in Aesthetic Fatigue: Modernity and the Language of Waste, ed. John Scanlan and John F.M. Clark (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), pp. 71-80.
‘Rustications: Animals in the Urban Mix’, in The Acoustic City, ed. Matthew Gandy and B.J. Nilsen (Berlin: Jovis, 2014), pp. 16-22.
Essays in Journals
'Samuel Beckett's
Animals', Journal of Beckett Studies, 8 (1982):
29-42.
`Myth as Multiplicity in
Walter Pater's Greek Studies and "Denys
l'Auxerrois" ', Review of English Studies,
34:133 (1983): 28-42.
` "Speaking
Likenesses": Language and Repetition in Christina
Rossetti's Goblin Market', Victorian Poetry, 22:4
(1984): 439-48.
'The Modern and the
Postmodern as History', Essays in Criticism, 37:3
(1987): 181-92.
`The Flag on the Road:
Bruce Springsteen and the Live', New Formations, 3
(1987): 129-37.
`Mystics, Myths and
Fakers', [with Lynda Nead], Times Higher Education
Supplement, 764 (June 26, 1987): 15.
` "Traduttore,
Traditore": Samuel Beckett's Translation of Mercier
et Camier', Journal of Beckett Studies, 11/12
(1989): 27-46.
` "They're All In
One Story": Public and Private Narratives in Oliver Twist', The Dickensian, 85:1 (1989): 2-16.
`Beckett and His
Critics', LJ, 1:1 (1990): 26-7.
`George Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four and the Politics of Narrative', English
Review, 1:3 (1991).
`Problems in the
Critique of Postmodernism' (Interview with Chung-Ho
Chung), Contemporary World Literature (Seoul), 26
(1991): 102-37.
`On and Of Value: A
Reply to Antony Easthope's "The Question of Literary
Value" ', Textual Practice, 5 (1991): 24-31.
`Negativity and the
Question of Value: Beckett's Worstward Ho', Paragraph,
15 (1992): 121-35.
`The Strangeness of
Charles Dickens', English Review, 2:4 (1992): 2-6.
`Dead? Or Alive? Edwin
Drood and the Work of Mourning', The Dickensian 89
(1993): 1-18.
`The Poetry of the
Meantime: Terry Eagleton and the Politics of Style', The
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, ed.
Stephen Regan (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 244-64.
'Cultural Studies and
Philosophy' (Questionnaire Response), Parallax, 1
(1995): 94-5.
'Reading: The Contretemps',
in Strategies of Reading: Dickens and After,
special issue of Yearbook of English Studies, 26 (1996):
232-48.
'Transcripts: Law,
Literature and the Trials of the Voice', New
Formations, 32 (1997): 60-76.
'Fascination, Skin and
the Screen', Critical Quarterly, 40.1 (1998):
9-24.
'CP: Or, A Few Don'ts By
A Cultural Phenomenologist', Parallax, 5 (1999):
17-31.
'Integuments: The Scar,
The Sheen, the Screen', New Formations, 39 (1999):
32-54.
'Slow Going', Yearbook of English Studies,
30 (2000): 153-65.
'Making An Issue of Cultural
Phenomenology', Critical
Quarterly, special issue on 'Cultural Phenomenology',
ed. Steven Connor and David Trotter, 42.1 (2000): 2-6.
'Coming to Bits', REAL: Yearbook of Research
in English and American Literature, 17 (2001),
'Literary History/Cultural History', ed. Herbert Grabes,
pp. 311-23.
'Kasvetli Ev'in
Yayalari', trans. Mehmet H. Dogan, Kitap-Lik, 49
(2001): 171-80; Turkish translation of 'Consequential Ground: The Foot Passengers
of Bleak House'.
'Itch, or The Gentle
Stranger', Parallax, 19 (2001): 20-30.
'The Decomposing Voice
of Postmodern Music', New Literary History, 32
(2001): 467-83.
'The Shame of Being a Man', Textual Practice, 15
(2001): 211-30.
' "A Door Half Open To
Surprise": Charles Madges Imminences', New Formations, 44
(2001): 52-62.
'Men in Skirts', Women:
A Cultural Review, 13 (2002): 257-71.
'Maculate Conceptions', Textile:
The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 1 (2003): 49-63.
'Weird Science', New Formations, Special
Issue, Remembering the 1990s, ed Joe Brooker and
Roger Luckhurst, 50 (2003): 94-105.
'Dickens, The Haunting Man', Literature
Compass, 1 (2003) VI 034: 1-11. Online at <http://www.literature-compass.com/images/store/LICO/viewpoints/331.pdf>
'Topologies: Michel Serres and the Shapes of Thought', Anglistik, 15 (2004): 105-17.
'Walking Out', Contemporary,
59 (2004): 54-5.
'Cutaneous: An Interview With Steven
Connor', Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, 13 (2004):
44-8.
'Chronic
Fatigue', Performance Research, 9 (2004): 54-8.
'Ears Have Walls: On Hearing Art',
FO A RM, 4 (2005): 44-57. Reprinted in Sound, ed.
Caleb Kelly (London and Cambridge MA: Whitechapel Gallery and MIT
Press, 2011), pp. 129-39.
'Steam
Radio: On Theatre's Thin Air', Performance Research, 10
(2005): 4-17.
'Volts From the Blue', Cabinet, 21 (2006): 72-6.
The Menagerie of the Senses, The Senses and Society, 1 (2006): 9-26. In Italian as ‘Il “menage” dei sensi’, trans. Guiliano Bacigalupo, Orsetta Innocenti and Francesco Ghelli, I cinque sensi (per tacer del sesto): Atti della Scuola Europea di Studi Comparati, Bertinoro, 28 agosto – 4 settembre 2005, ed. Francesco Ghelli (Florence: Le Monnier, 2007), pp. 29-45
'Flysight', Cabinet, 25 (2007): 78-84.
'Gasworks', 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 6 (2008) (online journal).
'Next to Nothing' , Tate Etc, 12 (2008): 82-93.
'The Shakes: Conditions of Tremor', The Senses and Society, 3 (2008): 205-20.
‘On Such and Such a Day…In Such a World': Beckett’s Radical Finitude. In Borderless Beckett/Beckett sans frontières, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, 19 (2008): 35-50.
'Le Voci Dentro e Fuori di Noi', (interview with Enzo Mansueto),
Rodeo, 43 (2008): 66.
'The Right Stuff', Modern Painters (March 2009): 58-63.
'Strings in the Earth and Air', New Formations (Special Issue on Postmodernism, Music and Cultural Theory, ed. David Bennett ), 66 (2009), 58-67.
'Pulverulence', Cabinet, 35 (2009): 71-77.
'Absolute Levity', Comparative Critical Studies, 6 (2009):
411-27.
'Thinking Things', Textual Practice, 24 (2010): 1-20.
'Auscultations',
Sound Effects, 1 (2011), 5-18.
'Chiasmus', Studies in Musical Theatre,
6 (2012):8-27.
'Spellings Things Out', New Literary History, 45 (2014): 183-97.
Review Articles and Longer Reviews
Review of Tobin Siebers, The Ethics of Criticism (Ithaca and
London: Cornell University Press, 1988), in Textual Practice,
6 (1992): 354-63.
Review Essay: Thomas Trezise, Into the Breach: Samuel Beckett
and the Ends of Literature (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1990); Leslie Hill, Beckett's Fiction: In Other Words
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); David Watson,
Paradox and Desire in Beckett's Fiction (Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1991), in Journal of Beckett Studies, NS, 2 (1992): 121-9.
Review of Marguerite Alexander, Flights From Realism: Themes
and Strategies in Postmodern British and American Fiction (London:
Edward Arnold, 1990); Gregory Ulmer, Teletheory: Grammatology
in the Age of Video (New York and London: Routledge, 1989);
Jon Stratton, Writing Sites: A Genealogy of the Postmodern World
(Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1990), in Textual Practice,
7 (1993): 305-16.
`How to Pay Attention', review of Terry Eagleton, The Crisis
of Contemporary Culture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) and
Colin McCabe, On the Eloquence of the Vulgar: A Justification
of the Study of Film and Television (London: British Film Institute,
1993), in Times Literary Supplement, 4704 (May 28, 1993):
15-16.
Review of John Schad, The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors:
Some New Language (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), in Swansea
Review, 11 (1993): 73-80.
`Honour Bound?', rev. of Cultural Pluralism and Moral Knowledge,
ed. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Jeffrey Paul (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994); John Frow, Cultural Studies
and Cultural Value (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995); Frank Henderson
Stewart, Honor (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press,
1994); David Parker, Ethics, Theory and the Novel (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994); Gary Saul Morson, Narrative
and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1994), in Times Literary Supplement, 4840
(January 5, 1996), pp. 24-6.
Review of Janet Beizer, Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of
Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 1994), in Women: A Cultural Review, 6.3
(1995): 327-31.
`Balancing the Book', rev. of Mark Osteen, The Economy of Ulysses:
Making Both Ends Meet (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
1995), in James Joyce Broadsheet, 44 (June 1996): 1.
Review of Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western
Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994); Felicia Miller Frank, The Mechanical
Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French
Narrative (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995); Claire
Kahane, Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure
of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1995), inWomen: A Cultural Review, 7 (1996): 309-16.
'How He Was', rev. of James Knowlson, Damned
to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury Press,
1996) and Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist
(London: Harper Collins, 1996), in Bullan: An Irish Studies Journal,
4.1 (1998): 121-6.
'Spending and Spirit', rev. of Regenia Gagnier, The
Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market
Society (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000),
in Women: A Cultural Review, 12.2 (2001): 249-51.
'Ghosts
in the Machine', rev. of Gaby Wood, Living Dolls: A Magical
History of the Quest for Mechanical Life (London: Faber, 2002),
in Guardian, March 2, 2002.
'K is for Kite', rev. of David E. Newton, Encyclopedia of Air
(Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2004), in Times Literary Supplement,
5288 (August 6, 2004), p. 26.
'Vox Pox', rev. of Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006) and Marc Shell, Stutter
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006), in Bookforum,
13 (April/May 2006), p. 30.
Review of Marina Warner, Phantasmagoria:
Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-First Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), in The Independent,
27 October, 2006.
Review of Malcolm Andrews, Charles Dickens and His Performing
Selves (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), in The
Dickensian, 103 (2007): 235-7.
Review of Nicholas Daly, Literature, Technology
and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004), in Modern Language Review, 103 (2008): 207-8.
Thinking Perhaps Begins There: The Question of
the Animal. A review of Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings
in Continental Thought, ed. Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco
( London and New York: Continuum, 2004), Giorgio Agamben, The
Open: Man and Animal, trans. Kevin Attrell (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2004), Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans
and Other Wonderful Creatures, ed. Erica Fudge (Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004) and The Animals
Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, ed.
Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007),
in Textual Practice 21 (2007): 577-84. [pdf
version]
Review of Peter
Sloterdijk, Terror From the Air, trans. Amy Patton and
Steve Corcoran (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009), Rage and Time:
A Psychopolitical Investigation, trans. Mario Wenning (New
York: Columbia University Press, 2010) and God's Zeal: The Battle
of the Three Monotheisms, trans. Wieland Hoban (Cambridge and Malden
MA: Polity Press, 2009), in Critical Quarterly, 53 (2011):
107-12.
'String Theories', review of Kenneth Gross, Puppet: An Essay
on Uncanny Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011),
in Literary Review, 392 (October 2011): 22-3.
'One's Thousand One Nightinesses', review of Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (London: Chatto and Windus, 2011),
in London Review of Books, 34.6 (22 March 2012): 14-16.
Münchhausen Manoeuvres. An extended version of a review of Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (London and New York: Verso, 2012) and Seán Sheehan, Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed, an edited version of which was published in the Times Literary Supplement, 26th October, 2012, pp. 21-2. [pdf version]
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