Alan Singer
alan.singer2@verizon.net
Alan Singer is Professor of English, teaching in the fields of
literary aesthetics, critical theory, the history of criticism, the history of
the novel and creative writing (fiction). Professor Singer has published a
theoretical study on formal invention in the novel, A Metaphorics of Fiction:
Discontinuity and Discourse in the Modern Novel, and a study of the
aesthetics of narrative, The Subject As Action: Transformation and Totality
in Narrative Aesthetics. His most recent book is Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and
the Deliberative Ethos, a defense of the cognitive value of aesthetic
experience. Professor Singer has also co-edited a volume entitled Literary
Aesthetics: A Reader. His current project is a book about self-deception
and aesthetic production, tentatively titled Self-Deceiving
Sense.
Professor Singer's intellectual interests as a literary
theorist are reflected in his course offerings at the undergraduate and
graduate levels: "Epochs of Literary Criticism," "Contemporary Literary
Criticism," Literary Aesthetics," "Value and Transgression in Literary
Form," "Interiority: The Literary Self After Enlightenment," and "On
Literary Modernity" (co-taught with Prof. Daniel O'Hara, English).
Professor Singer is also a novelist. He is the author
of The Ox-Breadth, The Charnel Imp, and Memory Wax.
Dirtmouth, his latest novel, will be published this summer,
having been previously excerpted in Western Humanities Review
and TriQuarterly. His current novel-in-progress is titled
The Inquisitor's Tongue.
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