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0000-0002-0140-5064
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University of Western Sydney Parramatta Campus
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Literary Studies | History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature | Comparative Literature Studies | History of Philosophy | Aesthetics | Literary Theory | Literary Theory | British and Irish Literature | Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) | Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Languages and Literature | Communication Across Languages and Culture |
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Publications
Expression and Affect in Kleist, Beckett and Deleuze
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 20-05-2009
Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce by Patrick McGee
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2016
Image and Intuition in Beckett's Film
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2004
Approaches to the (Beckett) Archives: Popper, Coetzee, and Scientific Validity
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 04-2017
Abstract: This paper concerns the nature of the archive and the kinds of statements that might be drawn from our interaction with the archive. In the first part, Karl Popper's concept of ‘falsifiability’ is examined, particularly insofar as it features in Nabokov criticism (via Brian Boyd) and in Beckett studies (through Matthew Feldman). Falsifiability brings with it the authority of science, which Feldman uses to challenge certain kinds of Beckett-based orthodoxies – such things as the unquestioned centrality of Descartes to the work, and the (perceived) imprecision of theory-driven readings. One of Feldman's key claims, with regard to the archives of Beckett studies, is that Beckett only read and studied philosophy between 1928–1938. But although his argument begins from empirical evidence, it further develops interpretations based on a reading of this evidence. These interpretations thus involve presuppositions with regard to how Beckett might have worked with or attacked ideas otherwise developed by philosophers. In the second part, a counter-approach to the use of the archive is examined, via the readings that J. M. Coetzee developed in writing his 1969 dissertation, The English Fiction of Samuel Beckett: An Essay in Stylistic Analysis. This ex le demonstrates both the value and limits of a quantifiable scientific approach to an analysis of the archives (in particular, to Coetzee's use of the methods of stylostatistics) as well as exemplifying how an approach to the archives might generate other benefits (in this case related to Coetzee's own fiction and its extension into the archival space). That is, Coetzee offers different answers to the question of how one might approach the archive and what might thereby be achieved. These answers gave him unquantifiable insights into the writing process and left him with questions he could pursue in his own writings.
To Have Done with Judgment: Beckett and Deleuze
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 1996
DOI: 10.2307/3684869
Philosophies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 30-04-2020
Denaturing Knowledge in Texts for Nothing
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1163/18757405-02901010
Abstract: This paper looks at Texts for Nothing , which Beckett attempts as a way to go on after the conceptual aporias he confronts in The Unnamable . It examines Beckett’s own comments with regard to this attempt to go on, set out in an interview with Israel Shenker and seeks to unpack these comments and the assertion that Texts for Nothing was a failure. In doing so it examines Beckett’s relation to knowing, being, having, and acting, in relation to concepts drawn from Spinoza and Deleuze and to the various literary tropes Beckett works with that traditionally generate meaning in relation to these concepts.
Dusklands and the meaning of method
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-04-2016
Spinoza on art and the cultivation of a disposition toward joyful living
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-04-2020
Introduction [to Special Issue: J. M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real]
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-04-2016
Negative Allegory: Buning on Allegory and the Via Negativa
Publisher: Brill
Date: 02-2010
DOI: 10.1163/18757405-021001002
Abstract: This essay will discuss two areas of interest developed by Marius Buning that point towards doorways within Beckett studies: the idea of allegory, and the idea of the . It will consider how these two ideas might be thought to interrelate and open new insights in the field.
Representation and Presentation: The Deleuzian Image
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2004
Preface [to Vol. 21, No. 2, Journal of Beckett Studies]
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 09-2012
Beckett at 100: Revolving it All (review)
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/MOD.0.0050
J.M. Coetzee and the Uses of Anachronism in Summertime
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2012
Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2009
Spinoza, Ratiocination, and Art
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date: 29-06-2011
Introduction [to Spinoza's Artes: Special Issue]
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-05-2019
Excess as Ek-stasis: Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg and Giving Offense
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2014
Preface [to Special Issue: Traverses: J. M. Coetzee in the World]
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date: 12-2016
DOI: 10.7560/TSLL58401
A Fragment of a Vitagraph: Hiding and Revealing in Beckett, Geulincx, and Descartes
Publisher: Brill
Date: 09-2004
Editors’ preface to special issue of Intellectual History Review on Spinoza and Art
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-04-2020
Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-12-2006
Abstract: Beckett often made use of images from the visual arts and readapted them, staging them in his plays, or using them in his fiction. Anthony Uhlmann sets out to explain how an image differs from other terms, like 'metaphor' or 'representation', and, in the process, to analyse Beckett's use of images borrowed from philosophy and aesthetics. This study, first published in 2006, carefully examines Beckett's thoughts on the image in his literary works and his extensive notes to the philosopher Arnold Geulincx. Uhlmann considers how images might allow one kind of interaction between philosophy and literature, and how Beckett makes use of images which are borrowed from, or drawn into dialogue with, philosophical images from Geulincx, Berkeley, Bergson, and the ancient Stoics. Uhlmann's reading of Beckett's aesthetic and philosophical interests provides a revolutionary reading of the importance of the image in his work.
Spinoza, Aesthetics, and Percy Shelley’s ‘A Defence of Poetry’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-02-2019
Introduction to Beckett’s Notes to the Ethics
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2006
Strange task, which consists in speaking of oneself
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 04-2016
Preface [to Vol.22, No. 1, Journal of Beckett Studies]
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 04-2013
‘Try what? I don't know. To continue’
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 09-2008
Worstward Ho, Parmenides, Badiou and the Limit
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 04-2011
Cap au pire, Parménide et la limite
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2015
Image and Disposition in Beckett's Late Plays
Publisher: Brill
Date: 08-2008
DOI: 10.1163/18757405-019001008
Abstract: This paper has two parts: in the first, I summarise elements of my conclusions with regard to the nature of the image and the aesthetic of nonrelation in Beckett's works, which I develop at length in my recent book . In the second, I draw on these ideas in offering readings of the nature of the image as disposition in Beckett's late plays and television plays.
Affect, meaning, becoming, and power : Massumi, Spinoza, Deleuze, and neuroscience
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 06-02-2020
Where Literary Studies is, and What it Does
Publisher: Australian Literary Studies
Date: 06-2013
Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology, and Art
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 09-05-2011
Choice, Capacity, the Possible, and the Nightly News
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1997
Allégorie et Via Negativa dans l'oeuvre de Samuel Beckett [Allegory and the Via Negative in the Work of Samuel Beckett]
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 09-2012
Arnold Geulincx Ethics With Samuel Beckett's Notes
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2006
L'image de la pensée: Cogito nescio
Publisher: Brill
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.1163/18757405-017001020
Abstract: Once we understand the Geulincx and his interpretation of the of Descartes, it is evident that, although Beckett plays also with the system of Descartes, the Geulincx system is much nearer the image of thinking as presents it and that so the chiaro oscuro of playing with knowledge and ignorance in Beckett's art becomes much more clear.
Law Translating Life and Life Translating Law Through Stories: Bringing them Home and Benang by Kim Scott
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2001
Beckett’s intertexts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 12-01-2015
The ancient stoics, Emile Bréhier, and Beckett's beings of violence
Publisher: Brill
Date: 16-10-2001
Process and Method in Waiting for the Barbarians
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date: 12-2016
DOI: 10.7560/TSLL58406
New writing in an aged care setting
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-07-2019
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