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Paul Giles

Bio: Paul Giles is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: American studies & American literature. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 67 publications receiving 855 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Giles include University of Oxford & University of Nottingham.


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03 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The Deterritorialization of American Literature as mentioned in this paper has been a major focus of research in the last few decades, especially in the context of the American Imagination and the question of genealogies.
Abstract: List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Deterritorialization of American Literature 1 Part One: Temporal Latitudes Chapter 1: Augustan American Literature: An Aesthetics of Extravagance 29 Restoration Legacies: Cook and Byrd 29 The Plantation Epic: Magnalia Christi Americana 42 New World Topographies: Wheatley, Dwight, Alsop 55 Chapter 2: Medieval American Literature: Antebellum Narrativesand the "Map of the Infinite" 70 Emerson, Longfellow, and the Longue Duree 70 "Medieval" Mound Builders and the Archaeological Imagination 86 Hawthorne, Melville, and the Question of Genealogy 97 Part Two: The Boundaries of the Nation Chapter 3: The Arcs of Modernism: Geography as Allegory 111 Postbellum Cartographies: William Dean Howells 111 Ethnic Palimpsests, National Standards 120 "Description without Place": Stevens, Stein, and Modernist Geographies 125 Chapter 4: Suburb, Network, Homeland: National Spaceand the Rhetoric of Broadcasting 141 "Voice of America": Roth, Morrison, DeLillo 141 Lost in Space: John Updike 154 The MTV Generation: Wallace and Eggers 161 Part Three: Spatial Longitudes Chapter 5: Hemispheric Parallax: South Americaand the American South 183 Rotating Perspectives: Bartram, Simms, Marti 183 Regionalism and Pseudo-geography: Hurston and Bishop 199 Mississippi Vulgate: Faulkner and Barthelme 212 Chapter 6: Metaregionalism: The Global Pacific Northwest 223 Reversible Coordinates: The Epistemology of Space 223 Orient and Orientation: Snyder, Le Guin, Brautigan 232 Virtual Canadas: Gibson and Coupland 242 Conclusion: American Literature and theQuestion of Circumference 255 Works Cited 269 Index 305

108 citations

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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The field, the nation, the world, and the world as discussed by the authors is a metaphor for the field and the nation of the United States, set and set and subsumed by Wai Chee Dimock's Planet and America, Set and Subset.
Abstract: Introduction: Planet and America, Set and Subset by Wai Chee Dimock 1 PART ONE: The Field, the Nation, the World 17 Chapter 1: Global and Babel: Language and Planet in American Literature by Jonathan Arac 19 Chapter 2: The Deterritorialization of American Literature by Paul Giles 39 Chapter 3: Unthinking Manifest Destiny: Muslim Modernities on Three Continents bySusan Stanford Friedman 62 PART TWO: Eastern Europe as Test Case 101 Chapter 4: Mr. Styron's Planet by Eric J. Sundquist 103 Chapter 5: Planetary Circles: Philip Roth, Emerson, Kundera by Ross Posnock 141 PART THREE: Local and Global 169 Chapter 6: World Bank Drama by Joseph Roach 171 Chapter 7: Global Minoritarian Culture by Homi K. Bhabha 184 Chapter 8: Atlantic to Pacific: James, Todorov, Blackmur, and Intercontinental Form by David Palumbo-Liu 196 Chapter 9: Ecoglobalist Affects: The Emergence of U.S. Environmental Imagination on a Planetary Scale by Lawrence Buell 227 Chapter 10: At the Borders of American Crime Fiction by Rachel Adams 249 Chapter 11: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue by Wai Chee Dimock 274 Index 301

83 citations

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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Giles as discussed by the authors argues that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship and advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it and placing it in unfamiliar contexts.
Abstract: Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it—placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks at a number of canonical nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers by focusing on their interactions with British culture. He demonstrates how American authors from Herman Melville to Thomas Pynchon have been compulsively drawn to negotiate with British culture so that their nationalist agendas have emerged, paradoxically, through transatlantic dialogues. Virtual Americas ultimately suggests that conceptions of national identity in both the United States and Britain have emerged through engagement with—and, often, deliberate exclusion of—ideas and imagery emanating from across the Atlantic. Throughout Virtual Americas Giles focuses on specific examples of transatlantic cultural interactions such as Frederick Douglass’s experiences and reputation in England; Herman Melville’s satirizing fictions of U.S. and British nationalism; and Vladimir Nabokov’s critique of European high culture and American popular culture in Lolita . He also reverses his perspective, looking at the representation of San Francisco in the work of British-born poet Thom Gunn and Sylvia Plath’s poetic responses to England. Giles develops his theory about the need to defamiliarize the study of American literature by considering the cultural legacy of Surrealism as an alternative genealogy for American Studies and by examining the transatlantic dimensions of writers such as Henry James and Robert Frost in the context of Surrealism.

78 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argued that to remap the culture of the United States in global terms is to problematize its exemplary and exceptionalist qualities and recognize inherent transnational frictions, and reinterpreted American allegories of interiority through pre-Romantic theories of spatial formation effectively produces a different perspective on texts that have become naturalized as examples of liberal self-reliance and institutionalized as types of classic American literature.
Abstract: Taking issue with associations between American literature and identity politics, this essay argues that to remap the culture of the United States in global terms is to problematize its exemplary and exceptionalist qualities and recognize inherent transnational frictions. As an example of this, the writings of Emerson and Thoreau in the 1840s are situated in relation to conflicts over the Oregon Territory, so that their textual designs come to seem less abstract or Neoplatonic than aggressively nationalistic. To restore a sense of the spatial problematic to American literature is to interrogate its more traditional integration within a temporal dimension of prophetic destiny. The essay concludes by suggesting that reexamining American allegories of interiority through pre-Romantic theories of spatial formation effectively produces a different perspective on texts that have become naturalized as examples of liberal self-reliance and institutionalized as types of classic American literature.

67 citations


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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: A review of the collected works of John Tate can be found in this paper, where the authors present two volumes of the Abel Prize for number theory, Parts I, II, edited by Barry Mazur and Jean-Pierre Serre.
Abstract: This is a review of Collected Works of John Tate. Parts I, II, edited by Barry Mazur and Jean-Pierre Serre. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2016. For several decades it has been clear to the friends and colleagues of John Tate that a “Collected Works” was merited. The award of the Abel Prize to Tate in 2010 added impetus, and finally, in Tate’s ninety-second year we have these two magnificent volumes, edited by Barry Mazur and Jean-Pierre Serre. Beyond Tate’s published articles, they include five unpublished articles and a selection of his letters, most accompanied by Tate’s comments, and a collection of photographs of Tate. For an overview of Tate’s work, the editors refer the reader to [4]. Before discussing the volumes, I describe some of Tate’s work. 1. Hecke L-series and Tate’s thesis Like many budding number theorists, Tate’s favorite theorem when young was Gauss’s law of quadratic reciprocity. When he arrived at Princeton as a graduate student in 1946, he was fortunate to find there the person, Emil Artin, who had discovered the most general reciprocity law, so solving Hilbert’s ninth problem. By 1920, the German school of algebraic number theorists (Hilbert, Weber, . . .) together with its brilliant student Takagi had succeeded in classifying the abelian extensions of a number field K: to each group I of ideal classes in K, there is attached an extension L of K (the class field of I); the group I determines the arithmetic of the extension L/K, and the Galois group of L/K is isomorphic to I. Artin’s contribution was to prove (in 1927) that there is a natural isomorphism from I to the Galois group of L/K. When the base field contains an appropriate root of 1, Artin’s isomorphism gives a reciprocity law, and all possible reciprocity laws arise this way. In the 1930s, Chevalley reworked abelian class field theory. In particular, he replaced “ideals” with his “idèles” which greatly clarified the relation between the local and global aspects of the theory. For his thesis, Artin suggested that Tate do the same for Hecke L-series. When Hecke proved that the abelian L-functions of number fields (generalizations of Dirichlet’s L-functions) have an analytic continuation throughout the plane with a functional equation of the expected type, he saw that his methods applied even to a new kind of L-function, now named after him. Once Tate had developed his harmonic analysis of local fields and of the idèle group, he was able prove analytic continuation and functional equations for all the relevant L-series without Hecke’s complicated theta-formulas. Received by the editors September 5, 2016. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 01A75, 11-06, 14-06. c ©2017 American Mathematical Society

2,014 citations

01 Jan 1995

1,882 citations

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TL;DR: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as mentioned in this paper describes a place where population, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant change in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved.
Abstract: I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud; for it is in such little retired . . . valleys . . . that population, manners, and customs, remain fixed; while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant change in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream . . . Washington Irving, \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,\" 1820

380 citations