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Irony, Parody, Intertextuality, Adaptation

Pamphlets:

Irony and the Power of the Unsaid. The 1992 Pratt Lecture. English Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Journal Articles:

"Ironie et parodie: structure et stratégie." Poétique (Paris) 36 (1978): 367-77.

"Parody Without Ridicule: Observations on Modern Literary Parody." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 5 (1978): 201-11.

"Ironie, parodie, satire." Poétique (Paris) 46 (1981): 140-55.

"The Literary Semiotics of Verbal Irony: The Example of Joyce's 'The Boarding House'." Recherches sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry 1.3 (1981): 244 -60. (with Sharon Butler

"Literary Borrowing . . . and Stealing: Plagiarism, Sources, Influences, and Intertexts." English Studies in Canada 12.1 (1986): 229-39.

"The Complex Functions of Irony." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 16.2 (1992): 219-34.

"Pumping Irony: Strength Through Sampling." In Culture Lab. Ed. Brian Boygon. New York: Princeton Architectural Review, 1993. 127-36.

"Irony, Nostalgia, and the Postmodern." Methods for the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory , Stud­ies in Comparative Literature 30 (2000): 189-207.

"On the Art of Adaptation," Daedalus (Spring 2004): 108-11.

"Metamorphing: Intertextuality, Adaptation, and Cultural Types," Symbolism 5 (2005): 61-75.

"Introduction: 'There will always be parody and irony,'" Texte, special issue on irony, 35/36 (2004): 7-11.

“On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and ‘Success’—Biologically”, New Literary History, special issue on biology and literature, forthcoming, 7000 words (with Gary Bortolotti)® 

“In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production, M/C (Australia), forthcoming, 5000 words.

"On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and ‘Success’—Biologically", New Literary History, special issue on biology and literature, 38 (2007): 443-58. (with Gary Bortolotti) ®

"In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production," M/C (Australia) http://journal.media-culture.au/0705/01-hutcheon.php

"Faith in the Faithless: An Inter-review with Linda Hutcheon" with Brad Bucknell. English Studies in Canada 32.2-3 (2006): 157-71

“Harry Potter and the Novice’s Confession”, The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature 32.3 (2008): 169-179.

"Creators and Critics on Adapting". Performing Adaptations. Ed. M. MacArthur, L. Wilkinson, and K. Zaiontz. Np: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. x-xiii.

Foreword to Re-Working the German Past: Adaptation in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture. Ed. Susan G. Figge and Jenifer K. Ward. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010. vii-x.

Preface to Le immagini tradotte: Usi Passaggi Trasformazioni. Ed. Cristina Casero and Michele Guerra. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Diabasis, 2011. 708

Chapters in Books:

"Authorized Transgression: The Paradox of Parody." Le Singe à la porte: Vers une théorie de la parodie. Ed. Groupar. New York: Peter Lang, 1984. 13-26.

"Intertextuality." International Encyclopedia of Communications, Vol. 2, ed. Erik Barnouw (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 349-51.

"The Politics of Postmodern Parody." Intertextuality. Ed. H.F. Plett. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. 225-36.

"The Power of Postmodern Irony." Genre, Trope, Gender. Ed. Barry Rutland. Ottawa: Carleton Uni­versity, 1992. 33-49.

"Parody and Romantic Ideology." Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831. Ed. David A. Kent and D. R. Ewen. London: Associated University Presses, 1992. 7-10.

"Scare Quotes: Irony versus Nostalgia". Quotation: Re-presenting History. Catalogue of exhibition at Winnipeg Art Gallery, Oct 23-Nov 22, 1994. 28-49.

"Discourse, Communities, Politics: The Problem with Irony". Realizing Community: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. L.M. and Isobel M. Findlay. Saskatoon: Humanities Research Unit, University of Sas­katchewan, 1994. 36-62.

"Irony-clad Foucault." Reading Umberto Eco. Ed. R. Capozzi. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1997. 312-7.

"L'Estensione pragmatica della parodia." Dialettiche della Parodia. Ed. Massimo Bonafin. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997. 75-96.

"A New Introduction, an Old Concern," A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms (republication of 1984 book). Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2000. xi-xvii.

"Politique de l'ronie." Poétique de l'ironie. Ed. Pierre Schoentjes. Paris: Seuil, 2001. 299-301.

"Adapting (to) Reality: Cultural and Biological Reproduction," Frances Leeming . "Genetic Admiration" . Exhibition Catalogue, Vtape Video Salon, March 2006.

"Creators and Critics on Adapting." Performing Adaptations. Ed. M. MacArthur, L. Wilkinson, and K. Zaiontz. Np: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. x-xiii.

Foreword to Re-Working the German Past: Adaptation in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture. Ed. Susan G. Figge and Jenifer K. Ward. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010. vii-x.


Postmodern, Postcolonial, Feminist Theory

Journal Articles:

"A Postmodernist Poetics?" Diacritics 13.4 (1983): 33-42.

"Subject in/of/to History and His Story." Diacritics 16.1 (1986): 78-91.

"The Politics of Postmodernism: Parody and History." Cultural Critique 5 (1986-87): 179-208.

"Postmodern Paratextuality and History." Texte 5-6 (1986-87): 301-12.

"Beginning to Theorize Postmodernism." Textual Practice 1.1 (1987): 10-31.

"Sa Incepem sa Teoretizam Postmodernismul." Revista de istorie si teorie literara (Bucharest) 35.1-2 (1987): 37-43.

"The Pastime of Past Time." Genre (Special Issue on Postmodern Genres) 20.3-4 (1987): 285-305.

"Fringe Interference: Postmodern Border Tensions." Style 22.2 (1988): 299 -323.

"The Postmodern Problematizing of History." English Studies in Canada, 14.4 (1988): 365-82.

"Circling the Downspout of Empire: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism," Ariel 20.4 (1989): 149-75; reprinted in Chung-Wai Literary Monthly (Taiwan).

"'A Lightness of Thoughtfulness': The Power of Postmodern Irony. " Open Letter 8th series, no. 1 (1991): 68-82.

"Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the (Post)Modern." Diacritics (Spring 1992).

"Postmodern Parody: History, Subjectivity, and Ideology." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 12 (1990): 115-23; reprinted in Contemporary World Literature, 1993.

"Eruptions of Postmodernity: the Post-Colonial and the Ecological," Essays in Canadian Writing, 20th Anniversary Issue, 51-2 (Winter 1993 -Spring 1994): 146-63.

"Femminismo e postmodernismo," Mondo 3: Rivista di teoria delle scienze umane e sociali 1.1 (1994): 132-41.

"The Post Always Rings Twice: The Postmodern and the Postcolonial", Textual Practice, 8 (1994): 205-38; reprinted in Material History 41 (Spring 1995): 4-23.

"Introduction: Colonialism and the Postcolonial Condition: Complexities Abounding", PMLA 110.1 (January 1995): 7-16; reprinted in Contemporary World Literature (Korea) (1995): 15-25.

"Crypto-ethnicity", PMLA (January 1998): 28-33.

"Postmodern Provocation: History and 'Graphic' Literature." La Torre (Puerto Rico) 2.4-5 (1997): 299-308.

"Literature Meets History: Counter-discursive", ANGLIA (Germany) 117.1 (1999): 4-14.

"Irony, Nostalgia, and the Postmodern: A Dialogue" (with Mario Valdés). Poligrafias 3 (2000): 29-54.

"Postmodernism ja feminismid." Ariadne Long (Tallin) 1.2 (2001): 182-99.

"Postmodern Afterthoughts," Wescana Review 37.1 (2002): 5-12.

"Postmodernism and Feminism" Labrys http://www.labrys.rg3.net

"Postcolonial Witnessing and Beyond," Neohelicon 30.1 (2003): 13-30.

"In Memory of Edward Said," University of Toronto Quarterly 74.1 (2004).

"Afterword: Compl(ic)it", Comparative Critical Studies 3.1 (2006): 159-62.

Chapters in Books:

"A Postmodern Problematics." Ethics/Aesthetics: Post-Modern Positions. Ed. Robert Merrill. Wash­ington: Maisonneuve Press, 1988. 1-10.

"Historiographic Metafiction: Parody and the Intertexts of History." Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Eds. P. O'Donnell and Robert Con Davis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. 3-32.

"The Ex-centric: The Center that Would Not Hold." Feminism and Institutions: Dialogues on Feminist Theory. Ed. Linda Kauffman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. 141-65.

"Feminism and Postmodernism." Donna: Women in Italian Culture . Ed. Ada Testaferri (Toronto: Dovehouse Press, 1989), 25-37; translated into Italian and published in Il Mondo 3 1.1 (1994): 132-141.

"The Pastime of Past Time." Postmodern Genres. Ed. M. Perloff. Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 1989), 54-74; reprinted in Metafiction, ed. Mark Currie (London: Longman, 1993) and in Postmodernism: A Reader, ed. Patricia Waugh (London: Edward Arnold, 1992).

"Fringe Interference," Theory Across the Disciplines. Ed. M. Cheetham and M. Kreiswirth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 101-133.

"Discourse, Power, Ideology." Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction. Ed. E.J. Smyth. London: Batsford, 1991. 105-22.

"Postmodernism" entry, Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. Ed. I. Makaryk. Toronto: University of To­ronto Press, 1993. 612-13.

"Cryptoethnicity." Beyond the Godfather: Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experi­ence. Ed. A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997. 247-57.

"Postmodern Film?" Postmodern After -Images: A Reader in film, Television and Video. Ed. Peter Brooker and Will Brooker. London: Arnold, 1997. 36-42. (Reprinted from The Politics of Postmodernism )

"Theorizing the Postmodern." Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Ed. K.M. Newton. London: Longmans, 1997. 275-82.

"Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the Postmodern", Umberto Eco's Alternative: The Politics of Culture and the Ambiguities of Interpretation. Eds. N. Bouchard and V. Pravadelli. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 163-84.

"'Old Tools', not 'New Noise': Postmodern Opera" Postmodern Life. Eds. A. Lee and T. Carmichael. Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 2000. 155-171.

"Postmodernismo e femminismi". Letteratura e femminismi. Ed. Maria Teresa Chialant and Eleonora Rao. Naples: Liguori, 2001. 249-60.

"'Acting from the Midst of Identities': Questions from Linda Hutcheon," Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies, ed. John Duvall. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. 199-207.

"Postmodernism and Feminisms." Postmodern Debates. Ed. Simon Malpas. London: Macmillan, 2001. 101-109.

"Orientalism as Postimperial Witnessing," Edward Said and the Post-Colonial. Ed. Hussein Kadhim and Bill Ashcroft.. Huntington, NY: Nova Science, 2001. 91-106.

"Foreword: Women Reading Women Writing". European Intertexts. Ed. P. Stoneman and Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004. 1.

"Comparative Literature: Congenitally Contrarian," Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. Ed. Haun Saussy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.

"Postmodernism," Routledge Companion to Critical Theory, ed. Simon Malpas and Paul Wake (London and NY: Routledge, 2006) 115-26.

"Gone Forever, but Here to Stay: The Legacy of Postmodernism,"  Postmodernism. What Moment? Ed. Pelagia Goulimari. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. 16-18.


Literary History:

Pamphlets:

Rethinking Literary History--Comparatively. American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper, 1995. (with Mario J. Valdés) (reprinted in ACLA Bulletin, 1995-6)

Collaborative Historiography: A Comparative Literary History of Latin America. American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper, 1996 (with Djelal Kadir and Mario J. Valdés)

Journal Articles:

"Interventionist Literary Histories: Nostalgic, Utopian, or Pragmatic?" Modern Language Quarterly 59.4 (1998): 401-17.

Chapters in Books:

"Rethinking the National Model", in Rethinking Literary History: A Forum on Theory, ed. Linda Hutcheon and Mario Valdes (with Stephen Greenblatt, Homi Bhabha, Walter Mignolo, Marshall Brown), Oxford University Press, 2002. 3-49.

"Culture on the Move: Rethinking Literature and Its History." Innovation: Essays by Leading Canadian Researchers. Ed. James Downey and Lois Claxton. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2003. 87-93.

"Theorizing Literary History in Dialogue." Rethinking Literary History: A Dialogue on Theory. Ed. Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix-xiii. (With Mario Valdes)

"Rethinking the National Model." Rethinking Literary History: A Dialogue on Theory. Ed. Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 3-49.

"Rethinking Literary History--Comparatively"--General Editors' Introduction to The Oxford History of the Literary Cultures of Latin America (with Mario J. Valdés) New York: Oxford UP, 2004. xxvii-xxx.


Narrative Theory:

Journal Articles:

"Pavese's Intellectual Rhythm." Italian Quarterly 15-16 (1972): 5-26.

"'Le Renégat ou un esprit confus' comme nouveau récit." In Albert Camus, VI ( Revue des lettres modernes ). Paris: Minard, 1973, 67-87.

"The Outer Limits of the Novel: Italy and France." Contemporary Literature 18.2 (1977): 198-21

"Modes et formes du narcissisme littéraire." Poétique (Paris) 29 (1977): 90-106.

"The 'Real World(s)' of Fiction: John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman ." English Studies in Canada 4 (1978): 81-94.

"The Carnivalesque and Contemporary Narrative: Pop Culture and the Erotic." University of Ottawa Quarterly (Special Issue on Bakhtin) 53.1 (1983): 83-94.

"A Hatasrol es a szovegkozisegrol." ("Intertextuality and Influence") Helikon (Budapest) 1 (1983): 57-64.

"Literary Theory." Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada Series 4, 22 (1984): 239-44.

"The Strings of Lust: Angela Carter and the French Connection," Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines (France) 14 (1998): 1-7.

Chapters in Books:

"'Le Renégat ou un esprit confus' comme nouveau récit." Essays on Camus' 'Exile and the Kingdom'. Ed. Judith Suther. University of Mississippi Monographs, 1980.

"Narcissisme roussellien et le nouveau roman." Ecrivains de la modernité. Ed. Brian T. Fitch. Paris: Minard, 1981. 7-19.

"Metafictional Implications for Novelistic Reference." On Referring in Literature. Ed. Anna Whiteside and Michael Isaacharoff. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. 1-13.

"The 'Real World(s)' of Fiction: John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman .'" Critical Essays on John Fowles. Ed. E. Pifer. Boston: Hall, 1988.

"Umberto Eco's Holistic Detective Agency (with apologies to Dirk Gently)". Scrittori, Tendenze Letterarie e Conflitto delle Poetiche in Italia (1960-1990) . Ravenna: Longo, 1993. 107-116.

"The Politics of Impossible Worlds." Fiction Updated. Eds. C.-A. Mihailescu and W. Hamarneh. To­ronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 213-26.

"Travelling Stories: Knowledge, Activism, and the Humanities," A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge (NY and London: Routledge, 2007), forthcoming, 4000 words.

"Travelling Stories: Knowledge, Activism, and the Humanities." A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge. Ed. John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci. NY and London: Routledge, 2007.206-15.


Psychoanalysis:

Chapters in Books:

"Charles Mauron" entry, Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. Ed. I. Makaryk. Toronto: University of To­ronto Press, 1993. 419-21.

"Sigmund Freud." The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds. M. Kreiswirth and M. Groden. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

"Sigmund Freud." Revised and updated entry for the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory. Ed. Martin Kreiswirth, Michael Groden and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 395-401.

"Charles Mauron." Companion to Modern French Thought. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 377-80.

Formalism and the Freudian Aesthetic. e-book re-publication, Cambridge University Press.


Theory of Reviewing

Journal Articles:

"Reviewing Reviewing Today," Literary Review of Canada 17.6 (2009): 6-8.

"Reviewing in Canada as the "Civil Exchange of Ideas." Canadian Literature 204 (Spring 2010): 157-59.