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Curriculum Vitae: CHARLES F. ALTIERI I. Biography Born Education: Regis High School 1956-1960 Le Moyne College 1960-1964, B.A. 1964-1968, Ph.D. 1969 Dissertation: "Yeats and the Literary Ballad
Tradition." Employment: Teaching
Assistant, University of North Carolina, 1965-1968. Assistant Professor, SUNY/Buffalo,
Department of English, 1968-1974. Associate Professor, SUNY/Buffalo,
1974-1975. Associate Professor, Department of English, Winter
1976-1977. Professor, Fall 1977-1992. Macarthur Distinguished Visiting
Professor, New Professor, UC Berkeley, July 1992- Chair, Department of Art
Practice, 1996-99 Director of the Rachel Stageberg Anderson Chair, UC Berkeley, 2003- II. Teaching Graduate Courses in
Nineteenth Century Thought, Victorian Literature, Modern and Contemporary
English and American Poetry, Modern and Classical Literary Theory,
Literature and the Visual Arts, and seminars on specific poets, theoretical problems, and
interdisciplinary period studies. Undergraduate Courses in
Great Books, modern and contemporary literature, various courses
in poetry and the visual arts,
Shakespeare, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Intellectual Backgrounds to Literature, all periods of Anglo-American Poetry from the Romantics to
the present and topics like autobiography, the epic, the lyric, and love poetry. III. Awards:
Summer Fellowship, NEH Younger Humanist Fellowship, 1975. Invited Fellow: Institute for Advanced Study
in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, 1980-1981. Guggenheim Fellow, 1980-1981. Co-Director NEH Summer Institute on Ethics
and Aesthetics, 1993. Elected to Editorial Board, Boundary 2, 1971-81 MLQ, 1978-present; Poesis -- 1981-85; American Poetry, 1987-1992; Contemporary Literature,
1992-present; Advisory Board, PMLA, 1978-1982; Epoche,
1994-present; Comparative Literature Studies, 1994-present. General Appointments: Executive Committee, MLA Division, Late
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century British Literature,
1978-1983. Executive Committee, International
Association for the Study of Literature and Philosophy,
1982-1987. Executive Committee MLA Division, Philosophy
and Literature, 1987-91. President of Philological Association of the
Pacific Coast, 1988-89. Executive Committee MLA Division, Poetry,
1994-98 Executive Council, MLA 2005-8 IV. Publications A. Books: Bibliography of Modern and Contemporary Anglo-American Poetry.
Enlarging the Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning. Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry. Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry:
The Contemporaneity of
Modernism. Canons and Consequences. Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person
Expressivity and its Social Implications. Postmodernism
Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.
The Particulars of
Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. Press,
2003. The Art of Modern American Poetry. B. Essays: "Gary Snyder's Lyric
Poetry: Dialectic as Ecology," The
Far Point, (no. 4 Spring-Summer 1970), 55-65. "Poetry in a Prose
World: Robert Lowell's Life Studies,"
Modern Poetry Studies, I (1970), 182-198; reprinted in a collection of
essays by and about Mazzaro. "Sartre's Literary
Criticism: From Disinterested to Engaged Imagination," in The Quest
for Imagination, ed. O. B.
Hardison. Press,
1971. 167-189. "The Unsure Egoist:
Robert Creeley and the Theme of
Nothingness," Contemporary
Literature, 13 (1971), 162-185. "Organicist and Humanist
Models in the Bildungsroman," Journal
of General Education, 23 (Fall, 1971), 220-40. "From Comic to Tragic
Naming in Yeats's Mature Poetry," Modern
Language Quarterly, 33 (1972), 145-171. "Northrop Frye and the
Problem of Spiritual Authority," PMLA,
87 (1972), 964-975. "From Symbolist Thought
to Immanence: The Logic of Post-Modernist Poetics," Boundary 2, I (Spring 1973),
605-641. Reprinted in Peter Caravetta and
Paolo Spedicati, Postmoderni e Letteratura, pp. 123-60. And reprinted in Paul Bove, ed. Boundary 2: the Early Years. "Poetry as
Resurrection: John Logan's Structures of
Metaphysical Solace," Modern
Poetry Studies, 3 (1973), 193-224. "The Significance of
Frank O'Hara," The "Olson and the Poetic
Tradition," Boundary 2, no. 4-5
(Winter-Spring 1974), 173-188. "Ovid's Metamorphoses and Contemporary
Fiction," Novel, 7 (1973), 31-40. "Wordsworth's Wavering
Balance: The Thematic Rhythm of the Prelude,"
The "The Poem as Act: "Objective Image and Act
of Mind in Modern Poetry," PMLA, 91 (1976), 101-114. [Translated into Arabic: AL-Thakafa AL-Ajnabia (Foreign Culture no. 3, 1994). "The Book of the
World. Robert Duncan's Poetics of
Presence," Sun and Moon, no. 1 (Winter 1976), 66-94. "Wordsworth's 'Preface'
as Literary Theory," Criticism,
18 (1976), 122-146. "Gary Snyder's Boundary 2, 4 (1976), 761-777. "Wittgenstein on
Consciousness and Language: A Challenge to
Derridean Theory," MLN,
91 (1976), 1397-1423. [Reprinted in
Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey, eds. Wittgenstein, Theory, and the
Arts. "Steps of the Mind in
T.S. Eliot's Poetry," in Twentieth
Century Poetry, Fiction, Theory, an issue of Bucknell Review, 22 (1976), no. 2, 180-207. "The Qualities of
Action: A Theory of Middles in Literature" Part I, Boundary
2, 5 (1977), 323-350. "The Qualities of
Action," Part 2, Boundary 2, 5
(1977), 899-914. "A Procedural Definition
of Literature," in Paul Hernadi, ed. What
is Literature. "The Plight of Victorian
Lyricism as Context of Modernism," Criticism,
20 (1978), 281-306. "Placing Creeley's
Recent Work, The Poetics of Conjecture," Boundary 2, 6-7 (1978), 514-42. "Against Indeterminancy:
A Dissent from the New Orthodoxy," New
Literary History, 10 (1978), 71-99. "The Concept of
Expressive Implicature: A Modification of
Grice," Centrum, 6, no. 2 (Fall 1978), 90-103. "John Ashbery and the
Modern Long Poem: Motives in Metaphors," Genre, 11 (1978), 653-87. "Presence and Reference
in a Literary Text: The Example of Williams." Critical
Inquiry, 5 (1979), 489-510. "The Propriety of
Critical Acts," Society for Critical
Exchange Bulletin, 1978, with commentary and response, 1979. "The Objectivist
Tradition," "Postmodernism: A
Question of Definition," Par rapport,
11, 2 (1979), 87-100, 123-133. "Culture and Scepticism:
A Response to Michael Fisher,"
Critical Inquiry, 6 (1979), 346-354. "Some Uses of Frye's
Literary Theory," The CEA Critic, 42, no. 2 (1980), 10-20. This essay won the Robert Miller Memorial Prize for best essay in a CEA
publication, 1980. "Rhetoricity in the
Sonnet," Tennesse Studies in
Language and Literature, 25 (1980), 1-23. "From Experience to
Discourse. American Poetry and Poetics
in the 1970's," Contemporary
Literature, 21 (1980), 191-224. "Ecce Homo: Narcissism, Power, Pathos, and the Status of Autobiographical Representations," Boundary 2, 9 and 10 (1981), 389-413. "Sensibility, Rhetoric
and Will: Some Tensions in Contemporary Poetry," Contemporary Literature, 23 (1982), 451-479. "Abstraction as Act:
Modernist Poetry in Relation to Painting." Dada/Surrealism,
nos. 10-11 (1982), 106-34. "Representativeness in
'Non-Representational' Art," Journal
of Comparative Literature
and Aesthetics, V (1982), 1-23. Reprinted slightly revised in Mary Ann Caws, ed. Perspectives on Perception:
Philosophy, Art, and Literature.
"A Report to the
Provinces: Reflections on the Fate of Behavioral Scientists," ADE Bulletin.
(Reprinted in Profession, (1982),
27-31.) "Going on and Going
Nowhere: Wittgenstein and the Question of Criteria in Literary Criticism," in William Cain,
ed. Philosophical Approaches to Literature. Lewisburg: "Criticism as the
Situating of Performances: Or What Wallace Stevens Has to Tell Us About Othello," in Vincent Kramer, ed. American Critics at Work:
Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories. ( Publishing, 1984, 265-95. "The ADE and
Institutional Politics: The Examples of Tenure and Composition," ADE Bulletin, no. 74 (1983), 24-29. " Caraher, and Mykyta," Reader, no. 9 (1983), 38-44. "Wallace Stevens'
Metaphors for Metaphor: Poetry as Theory," American Poetry 1 (1983), 27-48. "The Idea and Ideal of a
Canon," Critical Inquiry, 10
(1983), 37-60. "Picasso's Collages and
the Force of Cubism," Kenyon Review, n.s. 6, (Spring 1984), 8-33. "Plato and the
Performative Sublime," New Literary
History,16 (1985), 251-74. " ADE
Bulletin, no. 78 (Summer 1984), 13-16. "Surrealist
'Materialism'," Dada/Surrealism
no. 13 (1984), 94-103. "Why Stevens Must be
Abstract," Albert Gelpi, ed., Wallace
Stevens: The Poetics of
Modernism. "What Modernism Offers
the Contemporary Poet," Hank Lazer, ed., What
is a Poet? (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987), 31-55. "Pound's Vorticism as a
Renewal of Humanism," Boundary 2,12
and 13 (1984), 439-462. "Modernist Abstraction
and Pound's First Cantos: The Ethos
for a New Renaissance." Kenyon Review 7, no.4 (Fall 1985), 79-105. "The Post-Modernism of
David Antin's Tuning." College
English 48,no 1 (Jan., 1986), 9 - 26. "From Expressivist
Aesthetics to Expressivist Ethics," in Anthony Cascardi, ed. Literature and
the Question of Philosophy. "Style As the Man: What Wittgenstein Offers for
Speculating on Expressive Activity." Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
(1987), 177-92. Reprinted with
some revisions in Richard Shusterman, ed. Analytic
Aesthetics. 1989, 59-84. "John Ashbery and the
Challenge of Postmodernism in the Visual Arts." Critical
Inquiry 14 (1988), 805-830.
Translated by Kacper Bartczak into Polish for special Ashbery issue of Literatura na swiecie (number 7-8,
2006): 235-62. "Ponderation in Cezanne
and Williams." Poetics Today, 10
(1989): 373-400. "Finnegans
Wake as Modernist Historiography."
Novel, 21 (1988), 238-50. [This is Novel's twentieth anniversary
issue.] "Without Consequences is
No Politics: A Response to Jerome McGann."
In Robert von Hallberg, ed. Politics
and Poetic Value. "Contemporary Philosophy
and Modernist Writing: Or How to Take Seriously the Unmaking of Empiricism." The CEA
Critic, 50 (1987-88), 2-18. "The Powers of Genuine
Place: Humanities
Review, 22 (Summer, 1988), 205-24. [Remarks on Robert
Duncan]. American Poetry, 6 (Fall, 1988), 39-40. "Jorie Graham and Ann
Lauterbach: Towards a Contemporary Poetics of Eloquence." "Towards a Postmodern
Theory of Justice: Or How Lyotard Helps Us to Read Rawls." In Philosophy,
Deconstruction, and Literary Theory.
Mineapolis: University of
"Wordsworth and The
Options for Contemporary American Poetry."
In Gene Ruoff, ed., The Romantics and Us: Essays on Literature and Culture. "Wordsworth's Poetics of
Eloquence: A Challenge to Contemporary Theory." In Ken
Johnston, et al eds., Romantic
Revolutions: Criticism and Theory. "Wittgenstein's
"I": Towards a Psychology and Ethics of Expression." Western
Humanities Review 43 (Summer, 1989): 77-95. "When the Self Became
the Subject: A Review Essay on Paul Smith." Southern
Humanities Review 23 (Summer, 1989): 255-63. "An Interview with
Charles Altieri." By Sharon Bryan. (Spring 1989): 108-26. "What is it Like to Read
Batman as High Art?" (Spring, 1990): 29-33. Reprinted in Anniversary
Anthology, 20 (1995-6): 218-22. Essays on
"Autonomy" and on "Modernism/Postmodernism" for the new
edition of the T.V.F.
Brogan, eds. Essay on "Hegel" for
Johns "Canons and
Differences." In Vergil Nemoianu
and Robert Royal, eds. The
Hospitable Canon: Essays on Literary Play, Scholarly Choice, and
Popular Pressures. "`Preludes' as Prelude:
In Defense of Eliot as Symboliste."
In Shyamal Bagchee, ed. T.S. Eliot A Voice Descanting: Centennary Essays. "Confession and
Simulacra in the Poetry of Irving Feldman." Bucknell
Review (1992) "The Powers and the
Limits of Oppositional Postmodernism." American Literary
History, 2 (1990): 443-81. "Life After
Difference: The Positions of the
Interpreted and the Positionings of the
interpreter." The Monist, 73 (1990): 269-95. "Temporality and the
Necessity for Dialectic: The Missing Dimension of Contemporary Theory." New
Literary History, 23 (1992): 133-58. "Can Hemingway be
Recanonized?" in Peter Baker, et al, The Scope of Words. "The Responsibilities of
Professing." "The Grammar of Persons
and the Logic of Argument." Translated into Italian, "La grammatica degli
individui e la logico dell' argomento."
"Gli Stili Della Argomentazione," Quaderni della Fondazione San Carlo
(1989, no 3): 63-81. "Contemporary Poetry as
Philosophy: Subjective Agency in John Ashbery and C.K. Williams." Contemporary
Literature, 33 (1992): 214-42. "Stevens's Ideas of
Feeling: Towards an Exponential Poetics."
Centennial
Review, 36 (1992): 139-74. "Ashbery as Love
Poet." Verse, 8, no 1 (1991): 8-15.
Reprinted in Susan Schultz, ed., The
Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry. of "Can We Be Historical
Ever: Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of
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Language Quarterly, 54 (1993): 41-54.
Reprinted in
Marshall Brown, ed. The Uses of Literary History. University
Press, 1996. "Frank Stella and
Jacques Derrida: Toward a Postmodern Ethics of Singularity." In Peter Brunette and David Wills, eds., Deconstruction and the Visual Arts. "Eliot's Impact on
Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Poetry."
In David Moody, ed., The
University Press, 1994: pp. 189-209. "Intentionality Without
Interiority: Wittgenstein and the Dynamics of Subjective Agency." In Christie McDonald and
Gary Wihl, eds., Transformations in Personhood
and Culture After Theory. 1994, pp. 85-116. "Style and Subjective
Agency." In James McAllister, Ren‚
van de Vall, and Caroline van Eck eds., Style in Philosophy and the Arts. University Press, 1995: pp. 201-19. "Sighting Joseph
Marioni," [Translated as "Betractungen uber Joseph Marioni"] in Jochen Poetter, ed. Joseph Marioni: Private Icons. ( Staatliche Kunsthalle "Ann Lauterbach's
'Still' and Why Stevens Still Matters."
The Wallace Stevens Journal, 19 (1995):
219-233. "Some Uses of Silence in
Contemporary American Lyrics." In
Kristiaan Versluys, ed.,
The Insular Dream: Obsession and
Resistance. University Press, 1995: 350-8. "Images of Form vs. Images of Content in Contemporary Asian-American Poetry." Qui Parle 9.1 (Fall/Winter 1995): 71-91
"The Values of
Articulation: Aesthetics After the Aesthetic Ideology." In Richard Eldridge, ed., Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic
Imagination. "What is at Stake in
Confessional Criticism." In H. Aram
Veeser, ed., Confessions of the Critics. "The Purloined
Profession; Or How to Reidealize Wendell Harris, ed. Beyond
Poststructuralism: The Experience of the
Speculations of Theory. 1996: 279-300. "Some Problems about
Agency in the Theories of Radical Poetics." Contemporary Literature, 37 (1996): 207-36. "What is Living and What
is Dead in American Postmodernism: Establishing the Contemporaneity of some American
Poetry." Critical Inquiry 22 (Fall 1996): 764-89. "Whose in "Images of Form vs
Images of Content in Contemporary Asian-American Poetry." Journal
of American Studies [ this is printed in Qui Parle, 9 (Winter,
1995): 71-91.] "Silencing Romantic
Expressivism: Affirmation Without Assertion
in Two Yeats Lyrics." In
Gudrun Grabher and Ulrike Jessner, eds., Semantics of Silences in
Linguistics and Literature. " "Towards a Hermeneutics
Responsive to Rhetorical Theory."
In Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde, eds., Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time. Press, 1997: 90-107. "On the Sublime of
Self-Disgust: Or How to Save the Sublime from Narcissistic Sublimation." In James Soderholm, ed. Beauty and the Critic: Aesthetics in an Age of
Cultural Studies. "Response on Stein and
Wittgenstein." Modernism/Modernity
5 (1998): 141-8. "Poetics as Untruth:
Revising Modern Claims for Literary Truth." New
Literary History 29 (Spring 1998): 305-28. "The Concept of Force as
a Frame For Modernist Art and Literature."
Boundary 2, 25 (Spring 1998): 191-232. "Response to Arthur Danto."
In Christina Gillis, ed. Anything Goes:
The Work of Art and the
Historical Future. Papers, 1998: 17-23. "The Concept of Force as
Modernist Response to the Authority of
Science." Modernism/Modernity 5 (April 1998): 77-93. "Contingency and
Sociality in American Poetry of the Fifties." In Esther Giger and Agnieska Salska, eds., Freedom
and Form: Essays in Contemporary American
Poetry. "Lyric Form and Lyric
Force: Yeats and the Limits of the Expressivist Tradition." In Pierre Lagayette, ed., Strategies of Difference in Modern Poetry:
Case Studies in Poetic
Composition. "What Differences Can
Contemporary Poetry Make in Our Moral Thinking?" In Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, and David
Parker, eds., Renegotiating Ethics in
Literature, Philosophy, and Theory. Press, 1998: 113-33. "Lyrical Ethics and
Literary Experience." Style 32 (1998): 272-97. Reprinted in Todd Davis and Kenneth Womack
eds., Mapping the Ethical Turn. of Virginia Press, 2001: 30-58. "Spectacular
Anti-spectacle: Ecstasy and Nationality in Whitman and his Heirs." John F.
Kennedy Institute Working Paper, no 111
(1998). Also printed in American
Literary History, 11 (Spring 1999): 34-62. Also printed in Roland Hagenbuchle and Joseph Rabb, eds., Negotiations of Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. Volume 2: 184-205. "Lyn Hejinian and the
Possibilities of Post-modernism in Poetry." In Jacqueline Vaught Brogan and Cordelia Chavez
Candelaria, eds. Woman Poets of the "The Objectivist
Tradition," and "The Transformations of Objectivism: An
Afterword." In Rachel DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain,
eds. The
Objectivist Nexus. "Practical
Sense--Impractical Objects: Why Neo-Pragmatism Cannot Sustain an Aesthetics." REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and
American Literature. Winfried Fluck et al, eds. "Avant-garde or
Arrie`re-garde in Recent American Poetry." Poetics Today, 20 (1999): 629-54. "Contingency as
Compositional Principle in Fifties Poetics." In Terence Diggory and Steven Paul Miller, eds. The
Scene of My Selves: New Work on Poets. Orono: National
Poetry Foundation, 2001, pp. 359-84. "Affect and Intention in
Robert Creeley's Poetry During the 1960's." Open
Letter: A Canadian
Journal of Writing and Theory 11
(2001): 16-38. "Beauty and Her
Rivals." Crossroads: Journal of the Poetry Society of number 56 (2001): 7-10. "Taking Lyrics Literally:
Teaching Poetry in a Prose Culture." New
Literary History 32 (2001): 259-82. Reprinted in Tanya Agathocleous and Ann C.
Dean, eds. Teaching Literature: A Companion. 'Intimacy and Experiment in Mei-mei
Berssenbrugge's Poetry." In Laura Hinton and
Cynthia Hogue, eds., We Who Love to be
Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing And Performance Poetics. "An Aspect of Prynne's Poetics: Autonomy as a
Lyric Ideal." The Gig, 10
(December 2001):38-51. "Critical Survivors—"The
Expression of Feeling in Imagination" (1994) by Richard Moran."
Genre 33 (2000): 319-30. "Statement." ArcCA [Architecture "The New Criticism." The Edited by Julian Wolfrey. Reprinted in Wolfrey, ed, Modern North
American Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide. "Adorno on Beauty." Western Humanities Review, 56 (2002):
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Ethical: Difference as Definition." In
Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell, ed., The Question of Literature: The
place of the literary in Contemporary Theory. "Creeley's Contemporaneity," Bridge,
2, no.1 (fall/winter 2002): 199-204. "What is Human about the
Humanities?" Soundings 74 (2001):
245-64. "The Pound/Stevens Era." The Wallace Stevens Journal 26.2 (Fall 2002):
228-50. "Cavell's Imperfect
Perfectionism." Kenneth Dauber and
Walter Jost, eds. Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking
After Cavell after Wittgenstein. Northwestern University Press, 2003:
199-230. "The Local, the national, and
the transnational: Poetics as Political Theory." Foreign Languages and Translation [College of International Studies, "Intentionality as Sensuality
in Harmonium." The Wallace Stevens
Journal 27 (2003): 163-72.
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The American Poetry Book. Edited by Michael Hinds and Stephen Matterson. "Towards an Expressivist
Theory of the Affects." Soundings
86 (Spring/Summer 2003): 71-102. "Some Problems
with Being Contemporary: Aging Critics, Younger Poets, and the New
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Use The Inevitable Return of the Repressed."
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Criticism. "Polish Envy: American
Poetry's Polonizing in the 1970'and 1980's."
Metre (Spring 2004): 80-96. "On Difficulty in
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133 (Fall 2004): 113-18. "Theorizing Emotions in
Eliot's Poetry and Poetics." Casandra
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Modern American Poetry," American Literary History. 17 (2005): 70-94. "Autobiography
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(2004): 156-175. " Retallack and Juliana Spahr, eds. Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge Of the Contemporary. "Tractatus Logico-Poeticus," Critical Inquiry, 33 (2007): 527-42. "The Sensuous Dimension of Literary Experience:
An Alternative to Materialist Theory." New Literary History 38 (2007): 71-98 "The Pleasures of not Merely Circulating:
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Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012: 393-404. Essays
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large Oxford University press collection on modern poetry edited by CAry
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