Professor Emeritus
Email: : msvu.ca
Homepage: http://web.me.com/pschwenger/Site/Main_Page.html
Research interests:
Liminal literature (between waking and dreaming); narrative and the physical object; nature of the book
Selected publications:
Books
The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning. Stanford University Press, 1999.
Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-century Literature. Routledge, 1984.
Selected articles
“Writing in the Night.” Gothic Studies 11.1 (Spring 2009), special issue on Theorizing the Gothic. 9-15.
“The Part that is a Whole.” Catalog Essay for R.S. Pennee, Alter Ego: Anatomical Studies of a Natal Male. Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery, 2009.
“The State of Inauthenticity.” Triple Canopy 1 (2008). http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/1/state_of_inauthenticity
“Writing Hypnagogia.” Critical Inquiry 34.3 (Spring 2008), 423-439.
“The Dream of Writing.” Postmodern Culture 19.2 Online review of Herschel Farbman, The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/
“Outside the Interior.” English Studies in Canada 31.1 (March 2005), 1-9.
“Chili Pepper Pedagogy.” English Studies in Canada 31.4 (2005). 30-33.
“The Desiring” George Steeves: Photographs [Exhibition Catalog], Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery, 2007. 39-43.
"Gothic Optics." Gothic Studies 7.1 (May 2005):102-109.
"The Dream Narratives of Debris" SubStance 100 (2003), 75-89.
"Red Cannas, Sardine Cans, and the Gaze of the Object" in Mosaic 35:3 (September 2002): 55-71.
"Still Life: A User's Manual." Narrative 10:2 (2002):149-164.
"Words and the Murder of the Thing." Critical Inquiry 28 (Autumn 2001): 99-113.
"Corpsing the Image." Critical Inquiry 26 (Spring 2000): 395-413.
"Uncanny Reading." English Studies in Canada 21:3 (1995): 333-345.
"Agrippa, or, The Apocalyptic Book."South Atlantic Quarterly 92:4 (1993): 617-26.
"Prospero's Books and the Visionary Page." Textual Practice 8.2 (1994): 268-278.
"Circling Ground Zero." PMLA 106 (1991): 251-261.
"The Masculine Mode." Critical Inquiry 5 (1979): 621-633.
Editing:
Co-editor, with Melinda Guttman, of L’imaginaire du nucléaire, a special double issue (41/42) of the Paris journal Les Cahiers du Grif, November, 1989.
Editor of Interiors, a special issue of ESC (Vol. 33.1).
Conference Essay On-Line:
"Codex Seraphinianus, Hallucinatory Encyclopedia." British Council Symposium, Seeing Things: Literature and Visuality, Tours, 2001.
In Progress:
Liminal Literature: At the Borders of Sleep, a study of the literary strategies used to represent an ambiguous interface between two versions of the subject; and of literature itself as such an interface.
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