Paul Scott Derrick is a Senior Lecturer, retired, in American literature at the University of Valencia. He has published three collections of essays and co-authored various bilingual critical editions of works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Henry Adams and Sarah Orne Jewett. He is co-editor of Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry (Rodopi 2007) and is also one of the co-editors of The Companion to Richard Berengarten (Shearsman 2016) and Managing The Manager: Critical Essays on Richard Berengarten’s Book-length Poem (Cambridge Scholars 2019). With Miguel Teruel, he has translated Berengarten’s Black Light into Spanish (JPM Ediciones 2012) and with Viorica Patea, has translated three volumes by Romanian poet Ana Blandiana into English (My Native Land A4
American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States, 2011
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.-Robert Frost A... more We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.-Robert Frost At the beginning of his remarkably thorough unravelling of The Senses of Walden, the philosopher Stanley Cavell says: "My opening hypothesis is that this book is perfectly complete, that it means in every word it says, and that it is fully sensible of its mysteries and fully open about them" (3-4). This sentence, in typical Cavell style, is a conceptual bombshell with a slow fuse. It not only gives us a
LA PRESENTE TESIS DOCTORAL SUPONE UNA INVESTIGACION DE LA NOVELA GRAVITY'S RAINBOW (T. PYNCHO... more LA PRESENTE TESIS DOCTORAL SUPONE UNA INVESTIGACION DE LA NOVELA GRAVITY'S RAINBOW (T. PYNCHON, 1973) A TRAVES DE LA CONSIDERACION DE VARIOS FENOMENOS ARTISTICOS Y CULTURALES DEL SIGLO XX. LA IDEA CENTRAL ES QUE, COMO GR SE TRATA EN EL FONDO DEL CAMBIO DE PARADIGMAS QUE SE ESTA EXPERIMENTANDO EN LA CULTURA OCCIDENTAL, LA MEJOR FORMA DE ENTENDER LA NOVELA RADICA EN LA COMPRENSION DE DICHO CAMBIO DE PARADIGMAS. ESTE TRABAJO, QUE EMPIEZA Y TERMINA CON CAPITULOS SOBRE GR, INCLUYE ADEMAS "ENSAYOS" SOBRE LA PERSPECTIVA DE PAUL CEZANNE, LA OBRA DE FRANZ KAFKA COMPARADA CON EL CUBISMO, LA TECNICA CUBISTA DE THE WASTE LAND, UNA CONVERSACION FICTICIA ENTRE NIELS BOHR Y MARTIN HEIDEGGER, LAS NOVELAS PRINCIPALES DE SAMUEL BECKETT, LA PINTURA DE JACKSON POLLOCK, LAS ODAS DE PABLO NERUDA, Y, POR ULTIMA, LAS IDEAS DEL FISICO DAVID BOHM. DE ESTA MANERA, LA TESIS PRETENDE INVESTIGAR EL CAMBIO DEL PARADIGMA NEWTONIANO AL PARADIGMA HOLISTICO QUE EL AUTOR ARGUMENTA CONSTITUYE EL TEMA DE L...
American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States, 2011
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.-Robert Frost A... more We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.-Robert Frost At the beginning of his remarkably thorough unravelling of The Senses of Walden, the philosopher Stanley Cavell says: "My opening hypothesis is that this book is perfectly complete, that it means in every word it says, and that it is fully sensible of its mysteries and fully open about them" (3-4). This sentence, in typical Cavell style, is a conceptual bombshell with a slow fuse. It not only gives us a
LA PRESENTE TESIS DOCTORAL SUPONE UNA INVESTIGACION DE LA NOVELA GRAVITY'S RAINBOW (T. PYNCHO... more LA PRESENTE TESIS DOCTORAL SUPONE UNA INVESTIGACION DE LA NOVELA GRAVITY'S RAINBOW (T. PYNCHON, 1973) A TRAVES DE LA CONSIDERACION DE VARIOS FENOMENOS ARTISTICOS Y CULTURALES DEL SIGLO XX. LA IDEA CENTRAL ES QUE, COMO GR SE TRATA EN EL FONDO DEL CAMBIO DE PARADIGMAS QUE SE ESTA EXPERIMENTANDO EN LA CULTURA OCCIDENTAL, LA MEJOR FORMA DE ENTENDER LA NOVELA RADICA EN LA COMPRENSION DE DICHO CAMBIO DE PARADIGMAS. ESTE TRABAJO, QUE EMPIEZA Y TERMINA CON CAPITULOS SOBRE GR, INCLUYE ADEMAS "ENSAYOS" SOBRE LA PERSPECTIVA DE PAUL CEZANNE, LA OBRA DE FRANZ KAFKA COMPARADA CON EL CUBISMO, LA TECNICA CUBISTA DE THE WASTE LAND, UNA CONVERSACION FICTICIA ENTRE NIELS BOHR Y MARTIN HEIDEGGER, LAS NOVELAS PRINCIPALES DE SAMUEL BECKETT, LA PINTURA DE JACKSON POLLOCK, LAS ODAS DE PABLO NERUDA, Y, POR ULTIMA, LAS IDEAS DEL FISICO DAVID BOHM. DE ESTA MANERA, LA TESIS PRETENDE INVESTIGAR EL CAMBIO DEL PARADIGMA NEWTONIANO AL PARADIGMA HOLISTICO QUE EL AUTOR ARGUMENTA CONSTITUYE EL TEMA DE L...
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