Charles Altieri | Academic Influence

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PhD English University of California, Berkeley
Masters English University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley

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Why Is Charles Altieri Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Charles Altieri is the Rachel Stageberg Anderson Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Background Altieri specializes in 20th century American and British Literature and teaches graduate courses on 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. In his book on the reading of Wallace Stevens as a poet of what Altieri calls 'philosophical poetry', Altieri discusses his own reading of the relevance of such philosophers as Hegel and Wittgenstein while presenting a speculative interpretation of Stevens under this interpretative approach.

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Charles Altieri's Published Works

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Published Works

Art and embodiment : from aesthetics to self-consciousness (1995) (84)
Responsiveness to Lyric and the Critic's Responsibilities@@@Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric (1990) (68)
The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (2003) (59)
An Idea and Ideal of a Literary Canon (1983) (52)
Objective Image and Act of Mind in Modern Poetry (1976) (49)
Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism (1989) (48)
Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals (1991) (40)
Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry (1984) (37)
The Columbia History of American Poetry (1993) (34)
The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After (2008) (31)
Plato's Performative Sublime and the Ends of Reading (1985) (31)
Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value (2013) (26)
Why Modernist Claims for Autonomy Matter (2009) (26)
Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry During the 1960s (1979) (25)
Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding (1981) (25)
The Hermeneutics of Literary Indeterminacy: A Dissent from the New Orthodoxy (1978) (22)
Lyrical Ethics and Literary Experience (1998) (18)
Wittgenstein on Consciousness and Language: A Challenge to Derridean Literary Theory (1976) (16)
From Symbolist Thought to Immanence: The Ground of Postmodern American Poetics (1973) (16)
Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and Its Social Implications (1994) (15)
Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts (1998) (14)
The Significance of Frank o'Hara (1973) (14)
Spectacular Antispectacle: Ecstasy and Nationality in Whitman and His Heirs (1999) (13)
IIAffect, Intentionality, and Cognition: A Response to Ruth Leys (2012) (12)
The Qualities of Action: A Theory of Middles in Literature (1977) (12)
Taking Lyrics Literally: Teaching Poetry in a Prose Culture (2001) (12)
Some Problems about Agency in the Theories of Radical Poetics (1996) (11)
The Poem as Act: A Way to Reconcile Presentational and Mimetic Theories (1975) (11)
The Objectivist Tradition (1979) (11)
Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience (2015) (11)
Reach without a Grasp@@@The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory (1984) (11)
The Sensuous Dimension of Literary Experience: An Alternative to Materialist Theory (2007) (10)
Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (2008) (8)
Ovid and the New Mythologists (1973) (8)
The art of twentieth-century American poetry (2006) (8)
Afterword How the ‘New Modernist Studies’ fails the Old Modernism (2012) (8)
Eliot's impact on twentieth-century Anglo-American poetry (1994) (8)
Olson's Poetics and the Tradition (1973) (8)
What Is Living and What Is Dead in American Postmodernism: Establishing the Contemporaneity of Some American Poetry (1996) (7)
What Theory Can Learn from New Directions in Contemporary American Poetry (2012) (7)
The Place of Rhetoric in Contemporary American Poetics: Jennifer Moxley and Juliana Spahr (2011) (6)
Where Can Aesthetics Go? (2011) (6)
The Fate of the Imaginary in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2005) (5)
Ceremonies and spectacles : performing American culture (2000) (5)
Tractatus Logico‐Poeticus (2007) (5)
Avant-Garde or Arriere-Garde in Recent American Poetry (1999) (5)
Sunday, 26 August 2012 (2012) (5)
Style as the Man: What Wittgenstein Offers for Speculating on Expressive Activity (1987) (5)
Modernist Innovations: A Legacy of the Constructed Reader (2007) (4)
The Unsure Egoist: Robert Creeley and the Theme of Nothingness (1972) (4)
Temporality and the Necessity for Dialectic: The Missing Dimension of Contemporary Theory (1992) (4)
Wordsworth's "Preface" as Literary Theory (1976) (4)
Aspect-Seeing and Stevens' Ideal of Ordinary Experience (2012) (4)
Rhetoric and Poetics: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed (2007) (4)
Organic and Humanist Models in Some English Bildungsroman. (1971) (4)
Article: Poetics as "Untruth": Revising Modern Claims for Literary Truths (1998) (3)
What differences can contemporary poetry make in our moral thinking (1998) (3)
Northrop Frye and the Problem of Spiritual Authority (1972) (3)
Life After Difference: The Positions of the Interpreter and the Positionings of the Interpreted (1990) (3)
Sensibility, Rhetoric, and Will: Some Tensions in Contemporary Poetry (1982) (3)
The Lyrical Impulse (2017) (3)
Presence and Reference in a Literary Text: The Example of Williams' "This Is Just to Say" (1979) (3)
Beyond representation: The values of articulation: aesthetics after the aesthetic ideology (1996) (3)
Contemporary Poetry as Philosophy: Subjective Agency in John Ashbery and C. K. Williams (1992) (3)
Gary Snyder's Turtle Island: The Problem of Reconciling the Roles of Seer and Prophet (1976) (3)
"Anything Goes": The Work of Art and the Historical Future (1997) (3)
The Phenomenology of Literary Valuation (2015) (2)
From Experience to Discourse: American Poetry and Poetics in the Seventies (1980) (2)
Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy (2008) (2)
The Powers and the Limits of Oppositional Postmodernism (1990) (2)
The Postmodernism of David Antin's "Tuning.". (1986) (2)
Wordsworth's Wavering Balance: The Thematic Rhythm of The Prelude (1973) (2)
Pound's Vorticism as a Renewal of Humanism (1984) (2)
John Ashbery and the Challenge of Postmodernism in the Visual Arts (1988) (2)
The Concept of Force as a Frame for Modernist Art and Literature (1998) (2)
Ecce Homo: Narcissism, Power, Pathos, and the Status of Autobiographical Representations (1981) (2)
The Return to Rhetoric in Modernist Poetry: Stevens and Auden (2008) (2)
Reading for Affect in the Lyric: From Modern to Contemporary (2006) (2)
Modernist Poetry’s Encounter with Epistemic Models of Value (2013) (2)
Does Literature Think: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (review) (2004) (1)
Poems from The Auroras of Autumn: “The Novel,” “Study of Images I,” and “Study of Images II” (2019) (1)
Poems from Transport to Summer: “Two Tales of Liadoff” and “Analysis of a Theme” (2019) (1)
The Critical Turn: Studies in Kant, Herder, Wittgenstein, and Contemporary Theory (1999) (1)
Exemplification and Expression (2009) (1)
Doubt and Display: A Foundation for a Wittgensteinian Approach to the Arts (2016) (1)
Autobiography and the Limits of Moral Criticism (2004) (1)
Motives in Metaphor: John Ashbery and the Modernist Long Poem (1978) (1)
Some Limits of Postmodernism in Legal Studies : On Dennis Patterson ' s Law and Truth (2018) (1)
Are There States of Mind Which We Can Call “Inner Sensuousness”? (2017) (1)
MODERNIST REALISM AND LOWELL’S CONFESSIONAL STYLE (2007) (1)
The ADE and Institutional Politics: The Examples of Tenure and Composition. (1983) (1)
Modernist Dilemmas and Early Post‐Modernist Responses (2008) (1)
Arnold and Tennyson: The Plight of Victorian Lyricism as Context of Modernism (1978) (1)
Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot: Theorizing emotions in Eliot's poetry and poetics (2004) (1)
Canons and Differences (1991) (1)
Ugly Feelings, Powerful Sensibilities (2006) (1)
Appreciating Appreciation (2013) (1)
Placing Creeley's Recent Work: A Poetics of Conjecture (1978) (1)
Dickinson's Dialectic (2009) (1)
The Age of the Poets and Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose by Alain Badiou (review) (2016) (1)
Response to a Roundtable (2015) (1)
T.S. Eliot’s Christian Poetics and Hegel’s Ideal of Inner Sensuousness (2017) (0)
Marianne Moore and the Logic of “Inner Sensuousness” (2018) (0)
THE POVERTY OF MORAL THEORY IN LITERARY DISCOURSE: A Plea for Recognizing the Multiplicity of Value Frameworks (2011) (0)
The Maker’s Role: or the Limitations of the Conversational Ideas for the Arts (2015) (0)
The Fallacy of “Fallacy” and Its Implications for Contemporary Literary Theory (2017) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2005) (0)
On Ana Blandiana's My Native Land A4 (2016) (0)
Trakl's Tone. Mood and the Distinctive Speech Act of the Demonstrative (2013) (0)
Introduction: The Art of Twentieth‐Century American Poetry: An Overview (2008) (0)
On difficulty in contemporary American poetry (2004) (0)
Cézanne’s Ideal of “Realization” (2012) (0)
Dramatistic Education@@@Act and Quality (1983) (0)
Aesthetic Agency: Why Art Might Matter to Philosophy (2019) (0)
Alan Montefiore, ed. , Philosophy in France Today . Reviewed by (1985) (0)
The Maker’s Role: or, the Limitations of How Conversation is Idealized in Poetics Now (2015) (0)
Introduction: World-Making in and through Neglected Poems (2019) (0)
Hegel ’ s Ideal of Inner Sensuousness (2017) (0)
The Course of Modern American Poetry (2020) (0)
The Lyrical Impulse [Abstract] (2017) (0)
Poet as Literary Cartographer: Literary Cartography in Elizabeth Bishop's "The Map" (2022) (0)
The Concept of Experience as Grounding for The Waste Land (2022) (0)
Valuing Stevens’s Acts of Imagination (2017) (0)
On Bathos (2011) (0)
Innovators I: Poetry (2017) (0)
Professing the Pastoral (1989) (0)
Are We Being Materialist Yet? (2017) (0)
Late Poems: “One of the Inhabitants of the West” and “Nuns Painting Water-Lilies” (2019) (0)
The Doctrine of Impersonality and Modernism's War on Rhetoric: Eliot, Loy, and Moore (2008) (0)
Poems from Harmonium: “Floral Decorations for Bananas” and “The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade” (2019) (0)
The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics by Johanna Skibsrud (review) (2021) (0)
"Ponderation" in Cezanne and Williams (1989) (0)
Abstraction as Act: Modernist Poetry in Relation to Painting (1982) (0)
Can There Be a Plausible Ethics Developed from Poststructuralist Ontology (2015) (0)
Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry@@@Modern American Poetry (1988) (0)
The Visual Arts (2019) (0)
4 Toward a Hermeneutics Responsive to Rhetorical Theory (2017) (0)
Towards an Expressivist Theory of the Affects (2005) (0)
Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (review) (2011) (0)
American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens by Mark Noble (review) (2016) (0)
The Responsibilities of Professing (1990) (0)
The Ontological Turn in Literary Criticism and Some Challenges It Faces (2018) (0)
A Report to the Provinces: Reflections on the Fate of Reading among Behavioral Scientists. (1982) (0)
Barbara Guest and the Boys at the Cedar Bar: Some Painterly Uses of Language (2008) (0)
In Memoriam J. Hillis Miller (1928–2021) (2021) (0)
Representation, representativeness, and “non-representational” art* (2021) (0)
“Fact Meeting Fact—with a Background of the Ideal”: Hellenism in Stevens’s Journals (2021) (0)
The New Criticism (2019) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2008) (0)
Poetic Thinking (2021) (0)
Reading As Self-Development: The Forging Of Cultural Identities. (1984) (0)
T. S. Eliot in Context: Visual art (2011) (0)
Yeats and the tradition of the literary ballad (1970) (0)
Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900–1930. By RACHEL POTTER. (2007) (0)
‘Preludes’ as Prelude: In Defence of Eliot as Symboliste (1990) (0)
The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively (2020) (0)
Poems from Parts of a World: “Parochial Theme” and “Country Words” (2019) (0)
The Qualities of Action: Part II (1977) (0)
A History of Modernist Poetry. Edited by Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. vi+532. (2017) (0)
Poems from Ideas of Order: “Lions in Sweden,” “Botanist on Alp (No. 1),” and “Botanist on Alp (No. 2)” (2019) (0)
On the Prize Essay (2005) (0)
Genteel Modernism@@@A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890's to Pound, Eliot, and Yeats (1978) (0)
Culture and Skepticism: A Response to Michael Fischer (1979) (0)
After the New Criticism (review) (2011) (0)
The New Realism in Modernist Poetry: Pound and Williams (2008) (0)
How Modernist Poetics Failed and Efforts at Renewal: Williams, Oppen, and Hughes (2008) (0)
The Poverty of Theory: On Society and the Sublime@@@Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry@@@The Sixties, without Apology (1985) (0)
Afterword Are Aesthetic Models the Best Way to Talk About the Artfulness of Literary Texts (2012) (0)
Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self-Consciousness (2020) (0)
Review: Gerald Graff, Professing Literature: An Institutional History (1988) (0)
Spectacular anti-spectacle (2010) (0)
Stevens's Late Letters as Addresses to Posterity (2021) (0)
Afterword (2018) (0)
3. The Concept of Expression in the Arts from a Wittgensteinian Perspective (2019) (0)
Constructing Emotion in Deconstruction (2002) (0)

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