Outputs (22)
Dedramatising Ideology: Style, Interpellation and Impersonality in Denise Riley (2022)
Journal Article
This article explores the interrelationship of style, interpellation and impersonality in the writings of Denise Riley. Part one performs a detailed reading of Riley’s essay ‘Malediction’, focussing on her theory of interpellation and her visceral se... Read More about Dedramatising Ideology: Style, Interpellation and Impersonality in Denise Riley.
The Voices of Capital: Poetics of Critique Beyond Sentiment and Cynicism (2021)
Book Chapter
Hartley, D. (2021). The Voices of Capital: Poetics of Critique Beyond Sentiment and Cynicism. In M. Steven (Ed.), Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism (74-85). Bloomsbury
Anti-Imperial Literacy, the Humanities, and Universality in Raymond Williams’s Late Work (2021)
Book Chapter
Hartley, D. (2021). Anti-Imperial Literacy, the Humanities, and Universality in Raymond Williams’s Late Work. In P. Stasi (Ed.), Raymond Williams at 100. Rowman & LittlefieldTowards the end of his career, and ultimately of his life, Raymond Williams returned repeatedly to a set of concerns whose interconnection is not immediately apparent upon simple enumeration: the relation of writing to power, the ideology of modernis... Read More about Anti-Imperial Literacy, the Humanities, and Universality in Raymond Williams’s Late Work.
The Jamesonian Impersonal; or, Person as Allegory (2021)
Journal Article
This article locates Fredric Jameson’s Allegory and Ideology (2019) in the context of the broader trajectory of his career-long critique of the bourgeois centred subject. It argues that, for Jameson, the project of critique requires systematic depers... Read More about The Jamesonian Impersonal; or, Person as Allegory.
Style (2020)
Book Chapter
Hartley, D. (2020). Style. In J. Frow (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1163
Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen (2015) (2019)
Book Chapter
Hartley, D. (2019). Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen (2015). In S. Durrant, D. Farrier, L. Stonebridge, E. Cox, & A. Woolley (Eds.), Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities. Edinburgh University Press
'Dead Letters': Impersonality and the Mourning of World Literature in Ivan Vladislavić's <I>Double Negative (2019)
Journal Article
In his 2010 novel, Double Negative, South African author Ivan Vladislavić undertakes an ethico-political and literary project of impersonality. Impersonality is understood in four interrelated ways: as an ethos characterized by a paradoxically passio... Read More about 'Dead Letters': Impersonality and the Mourning of World Literature in Ivan Vladislavić's <I>Double Negative.
Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism (2019)
Book Chapter
Hartley, D. (2019). Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism. In S. Deckard, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), World literature, neoliberalism and the culture of discontent (131-155). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05441-0_6This chapter argues that the impersonality of historical capitalism is best conceived as an uneven combination of socio-cultural processes of depersonalization and (re-)personalization. It is within this purview of the longue durée that I shall locat... Read More about Keeping it Real: Literary Impersonality under Neoliberalism.
The Aesthetics of Non-Objectivity: From the Worker’s Two Bodies to Cultural Revolution (2018)
Journal Article