keywords
- Walter Benjamin, Modern Poetry
- Contact Info
Ferris, David S
Positions
- Professor, Humanities
Research Areas
- Aesthetics
- Art Criticism
- Criticism
- English Language/Literature
- European Languages/Literature
- French Language/Literature
- German Language/Literature
- History & Appreciation of Art
- History of Philosophy
- Language and/or Literature, Classical/Ancient
- Language and/or Literature, Comparative Literature
- Language and/or Literature, Modern
- Language and/or Literature, Romantic
- Literary Criticism
- Literary History
- Philosophy
Research
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- Shadows on the Wall of Reason: Diderot before Fragonard. 83-108. 2017
- Agamben and the Messianic: The Slightest of Differences. 73-92. 2014
- Mournful Translation: On the Name of Shelley's Adonais. 24-paragraphs. 2014
- Why Compare?. 28-45. 2011
- Fragments of an Interrupted Life Keats, Blanchot, and the Gift of Death. 103-124. 2008
- Indiscipline. 78-99. 2006
- Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism. 19-paragraphs. 2005
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journal article
- Time and the Narrative of Memory in Sebald’s Austerlitz. Continental Thought and Theory. 240-261. 2018
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Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life.
Critical Inquiry.
716-717.
2016
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Politics after Aesthetics: Disagreeing with Ranciere.
Parallax.
37-49.
2009
- Preserving aesthetic ecstasy: Bohrer's 'Suddenness' and the moment of the modern. English Language Notes. 209-218. 2008
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"Truth Is the Death of Intention": Benjamin's Esoteric History of Romanticism.
Studies in Romanticism.
455-455.
1992
- Walter Benjamin On Romanticism. Studies in Romanticism. 1992
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Where Three Paths Meet: History, Wordsworth, and the Simplon Pass.
Studies in Romanticism.
391-391.
1991
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo 1985
- B.A., University of Leeds (England) 1977
- B.A., University of Lancaster (England) 1975
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Argentina Country
- South America Continent
- United Kingdom Country