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Research Interests / Recherches

David Spurr a obtenu son doctorat en littérature comparée à l’Université du Michigan ; il a enseigné aux universités d’Illinois (Chicago) et de Neuchâtel avant d’arriver à Genève. Ses domaines d’enseignement sont la littérature anglaise moderne du 18e au 20e siècles, la théorie littéraire et la littérature comparée. Ses ouvrages scientifiques portent notamment sur la littérature moderne anglaise et française, avec une importance particulière accordée aux rapports entre ces littératures et les contextes philosophiques et culturels de la modernité.

David Spurr est président de la Swiss Association of University Teachers of English et Corresponding Fellow de la English Association of the United Kingdom. Il est membre des comités de direction de la Zurich James Joyce Foundation et de la Société de Lecture de Genève.

Publications

Books and Monographs / Livres et monographies

Architecture and Modern Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012 (Architecture and Modern Literature).

Editor, with David Vichnar and Michael Groden. Praharfeast: James Joyce in Prague. Prague: Literaria Pragensia, 2012.

Editor, with Cornelia Tschichold, The Space of English. Series SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005.

Joyce and the Scene of Modernity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida James Joyce Series, 2002. Named "Oustanding Academic Title" by Choice, a publication of the American Library Association.

The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Durham and London: Duke University Press,1993. Third printing, 1996.

Conflicts in Consciousness: T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Criticism. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

Selected Essays and Articles / Sélection d'essais et d'articles

“Joyce’s Countergospel.” Forthcoming in Finnegans Wake: Polyvocal Explorations. Ed. Kimberley Devlin and Christine Smedley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

“Paranoid Modernism in Joyce and Kafka.” Journal of Modern Literature 34:2, 2011. 178-191.

"Joyce and Balzac: Portraits of the Artist in a Material World." In Finn Fordham, Ed. Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 42-59.

“Joyce the Post.” In Valérie Bénéjam and John Bishop, Eds., Making Space in the Works of James Joyce. London: Routledge, 2011. 155-72.

“Stuttering Joyce.” In Matthew Creasy, Ed. Errears and Erroriboose. Error in Joyce. Series European Joyce Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 121-33.

“Le Fragment comme forme littéraire.” In Valeria Wagner, Ed. Campos abiertos : Ensayos en homenaje a Jenaro Talens. Barcelona : Red Ediciones, 2011. 283-299.

“Gibbon et la revolution genevoise de 1792.” In Genève, lieu d’Angleterre. Ed. Valérie Cossy, Béla Kapossy, et Richard Whatmore. Genève: Slatkine, 2009. 267-279.

"Joyce's Debris." In Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses. Ed. Morris Beja and Anne Fogarty. University Press of Florida, 2009. 15-30.

“Foreword” to Edmundo Murray, Becoming Gauchos Ingleses: Diasporic Models in Irish-Argentine Literature. Palo Alto: Academica Press, 2009. 

“La frivolité chez Jane Austen,” Poétique 152 (2007) : 387-401.

"An End to Dwelling: Reflections on Modern Literature and Architecture" in Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska, eds., Modernism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2007, I: 468-486.

"Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc: Figures of Ruin and Restoration." In Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture 5 (2007) 285-308.

"Rhetoric of Empire" in Lawrence Kritzman, ed. The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006: 326-9.

“Demonic Spaces: Notes Toward an Architecture of Evil.” Colloquium Helveticum 36 (2006), 271-91.

“Architecture in Frost and Stevens.” Journal of Modern Literature. 28:3 (2005) 72-86.

“The Study of Space in Literature: Some Paradigms.” The Space of English. Ed. David Spurr and Cornelia Tschichold. SPELL 17. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2005:15-34.

"Architecture," The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era, 4 vols. Ed. James Eli Adams. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Academic Reference, 2003. 1: 64-67.

"Spectres of Modernity: Notes on the Uncanny in Modern Literature." New Comparison 33/4 (2002) 251-66. Published jointly in Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate 55 (2002) : 67-81.

"Colonial Spaces in Joyce's Dublin." James Joyce Quarterly 37.1 (2001): 23-42.

"Kenneth Koch's 'Serious Moment.'" in The Scene of My Selves: The New York School Poets. Ed. Terence Diggory. National Poetry Foundation: University Press of New England, 2001. 345-56.

"La Comédie de l'intolérance chez Proust et Joyce." Etudes littéraires 32 (2000) : 263-77.

"Literary Modernism and the Fate of Reading." Lukas Erne and Guillemette Bolens, eds., The Limits of Textuality. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. SPELL 13 (2000). 27-39.

"Scènes de lecture." Poétique (Paris) 120 (1999): 413-25.

"Double Sessions: Joyce’s Performance of Hamlet." Peter Halter, ed. Performance. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. SPELL 11 (1998) : 63-72.

"Fatal Signatures: Forgery and Colonization in Finnegans Wake." European Joyce Studies 8 (1998) : 245-260.

"New Mexico: Landscapes of the Colonizing Imagination." John G. Blair and Reinhold Wagnleitner, eds. Empire: American Studies. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. SPELL 10 (1997) 13-35.

"Writing in the Wake of Empire" (on Finnegans Wake). MLN (Modern Language Notes) 111.5 (1996) 872-88.

"The News of Life and Death" (on Thom Gunn, James Laughlin, and Robert Pack). Poetry February 1995: 289-299.

"Myths of Anthropology: Eliot, Joyce, Lévy-Bruhl." PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) 109 (1994): 266-80. Chinese translation by Li Sumiao: Growai Wenxue [Foreign Literatures] (Beijing) 1994: 9-18.

"Lire le Congo." Bulletin des amis d'André Gide (Paris). 20 janvier 1992: 74-81.

"The Waste Land: Mourning, Writing, Disappearance." Yeats Eliot Review Fall l988: l6l-4.

"Eliot, Modern Poetry, and the Romantic Tradition." In J.S. Brooker, ed., Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poems and Plays. New York: Modern Language Association. l988: 33-38.

"Free But Alone" (on John Ashbery). Poetry (Chicago) July l986: 228-236.

"Colonialist Journalism: Stanley to Didion." Raritan Quarterly Fall l985: 35-50.

"John Ashbery's Poetry of Language." Centennial Review Spring l98l: l50-l6l.

"T.S. Eliot's Divided Critical Sensibility." Criticism 23, (l98l): 58-76.

"An Interview with Kenneth Koch." Contemporary Poetry 3, (l980): l-12.

"Conflicts of Mind and Vision in 'Prufrock' and 'Gerontion.'" Yeats Eliot Review 6 (l979): 38-55.

"Eliot's Baudelaire and the Poetry of Good and Evil." Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate. March l978: 54-69.

"A Celtic Commedia: Dante in Yeats' Poetry." Rackham Literary Studies, Spring l977: 99-116.

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel, by Robert Alter (Yale University Press, 2005) and Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism, by Desmond Harding (Routledge, 2003), in James Joyce Quarterly 44:2 (2007): 370-376.

Naissance de la critique moderne: la littérature selon Eliot et Valéry, Artois Presses Université, 2002. Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate 57:3 (2004) : 385-88.

Joyce and the City: The Significance of Place. Michael Begnal, ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002. James Joyce Quarterly 41:1 and 2 (2003-04): 286-90.

Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880-1930. By Ronald Schleifer. Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 101:3. July 2002: 469-71.

Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel, and Government. By Nicholas Thomas. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (London) 14:3. June 1996: 365-66.

Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling. By Zohreh Sullivan. Modern Fiction Studies 40:4.Winter 1994: 878-80.

Auden: A Carnival of Intellect. By Edward Callan. Michigan Academician Fall l984: l05-l07.

La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement. By Pierre Bourdieu. Sub-Stance 12:2. 1983: 103-106.

The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951. By Kenneth Koch. American Poetry Review. March l983: 42-43.