Paul Cantor
American literary and media critic
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- Bachelors English Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul A. Cantor was an American literary and media critic. He taught for many years at the University of Virginia, where he was the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English. Cantor wrote on a wide range of subjects, including Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Romanticism, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, Salman Rushdie, Leo Strauss, Tom Stoppard, Don Delillo, New Historicism, Austrian economics, postcolonial literature, contemporary popular culture, and relations between culture and commerce.
Paul Cantor's Published Works
Published Works
- The Simpsons (1999) (65)
- Literary criticism and philosophy (1984) (41)
- The Empire of the Future: Imperialism and Modernism in H. G. Wells (2006) (39)
- Shakespeare: Hamlet: Frontmatter (2004) (30)
- Shakespeare's Rome, Republic and Empire (1976) (29)
- The Politics of the Epic: Wordsworth, Byron, and the Romantic Redefinition of Heroism (2007) (28)
- Studies on Allylpyrroles and Related Pyrrole Derivatives1 (1958) (19)
- Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism@@@The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism@@@An Infinite Complexity: Essays in Romanticism@@@The Shadow of the Dome: Organicism and Romantic Poetry (1988) (19)
- New Essays on White Noise: “Adolf, We Hardly Knew You” (1991) (15)
- Biological degradation of cellulose acetate reverse-osmosis membranes (2007) (14)
- TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA: RUSHDIE'S USE OF SPANISH HISTORY IN "THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH" (1997) (14)
- Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization (2001) (13)
- The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV (2012) (12)
- Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett and Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country (1994) (10)
- The Uncanonical Dante: The Divine Comedy and Islamic Philosophy (1996) (9)
- MODIFIED POLYCARBONATE MEMBRANES FOR HEMODIALYSIS (1973) (9)
- To Privatize or Not to Privatize: That is the Question; What is the Answer? (1996) (9)
- Efficiency Wages and the Regulated Firm (1997) (8)
- Stephen Greenblatt‘s new historicist vision (1993) (8)
- Literature and Politics: Understanding the Regime (1995) (7)
- Hyperinflation and hyperreality: Thomas Mann in light of Austrian economics (1994) (7)
- Clinical use of NISR 440 polycarbonate membrane for hemodialysis. (1975) (7)
- Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History (2000) (6)
- The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture (2019) (6)
- Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield (2000) (5)
- ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEARS ONCE AGAIN (1995) (5)
- Shakespeare's The Tempest: The Wise Man as Hero (1980) (4)
- A welcome for postcolonial literature (1999) (4)
- Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream (2019) (4)
- Notes - An Improved Synthesis of 2-Methylpyrrole (1956) (3)
- It’s not the tenure, it’s the radicalism (1997) (3)
- Being Claude Dukenfield: W. C. Fields and the American Dream (2002) (2)
- The Literary Profession and Civic Culture (2013) (2)
- Faith, reason, and political life today (2001) (2)
- The Private Provision of Public Services in Developing Countries by Gabriel Roth Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1987. Pp. xv + 278. £22.50. (1989) (2)
- The cause of thunder: Nature and justice in King Lear (2008) (2)
- The Primacy of the Literary Imagination, or which came first: The Critic or the Author? (1999) (2)
- Political Philosophy Comes to Rick's: Casablanca and American Civic Culture (2005) (2)
- A Class Act: Persuasion and the Lingering Death of the Aristocracy (1999) (2)
- In Defense of the Marketplace (2001) (2)
- Reality Czech: Tom Stoppard Discovers Shakespeare behind the Iron Curtain (2016) (1)
- Economic and Cultural Globalization (2007) (1)
- The Original Frontier (2012) (1)
- The Truth Is Still Out There (2012) (1)
- Cartman Shrugged: South Park and Libertarian Philosophy (2013) (1)
- The Shores of Hybridity: Shakespeare and the Mediterranean (2006) (1)
- The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica Since the Late Nineteenth Century. By Marc Edelman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 478. $55.00 (1993) (1)
- Private and Public Corruption (2004) (1)
- Creature and Creator (1984) (1)
- Postmodern Prophet: Tocqueville Visits Vegas (2000) (1)
- 5. Romanticism and Technology: Satanic Verses and Satanic Mills (2019) (1)
- Shakespeare's Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics (2002) (1)
- Hijacking the modern language association: I (1999) (1)
- Aristocracy in America (2019) (1)
- Shakespeare--"For All Time"?. (1993) (1)
- The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns (2011) (1)
- Nationalization and Economic Growth (1988) (1)
- In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin (2015) (1)
- This Is Not Your Father's FBI: The X-Files and the Delegitimation of the Nation-State. (Culture Watch) (2001) (1)
- The Invisible Man and the Invisible Hand H. G. Wells's Critique of Capitalism (2016) (1)
- The Historian's Huck Finn: Reading Mark Twain's Masterpiece as Social and Economic History. Annotated by Ranjit S. Dighe. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2016. Pp. xxiii, 353. $58.00, cloth; $35.00, paper (2017) (0)
- CliniTrend gets more horsepower. (2000) (0)
- How English Became the Global Language, by David Northrup (2015) (0)
- The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism. Anthony John Harding (1998) (0)
- Latin America (1992) (0)
- Long Day's Journey Into Brecht: The Ambivalent Politics of The Lives of Others (2011) (0)
- The Talented Mr. Dukenfield (2019) (0)
- A Mental Theater: Poetic Drama and Consciousness in the Romantic Age. Alan Richardson. (1989) (0)
- Northrup, David. How English Became the Global Language (2015) (0)
- PART TWO. Further Explorations of Shakespeare’s Rome (2019) (0)
- Shakespeare: Hamlet: Preface (2004) (0)
- The Western and Western Drama (2012) (0)
- Afterword: Stoning the Romance: The Ideological Critique of Nineteenth-Century Literature (1989) (0)
- Polycarbonate membrane and process for their manufacture (1975) (0)
- Who Killed Víctor Jara? (2008) (0)
- Antony and Cleopatra: Empire, Globalization, and the Clash of Civilizations (2015) (0)
- Shakespearem"For all time"? (2006) (0)
- David Lowenthal, Shakespeare's Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Thirteen Plays (2019) (0)
- Shakespeare: 'Hamlet'@@@'Hamlet' in My Mind's Eye@@@Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedies (1992) (0)
- The Shelley-Byron Conversation. William D. Brewer.Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture. Terence Alan Hoagwood. (1995) (0)
- The tragedy of Hamlet (2004) (0)
- Book Review: Socialism, Economics and Development (1987) (0)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- Process for the preparation of a hydrophilic polyether-polycarbonate membrane (1975) (0)
- Making Financial Sector Supervision Work (2000) (0)
- Shakespeare: Hamlet: Chronology (2004) (0)
- “I Believe in America” (2019) (0)
- Nationalization, socialism and the optimum size of the state sector (1990) (0)
- The Macbeth of Meth (2019) (0)
- Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy : The Twilight of the Ancient World (2017) (0)
- Shakespeare: Hamlet: Dramatic and poetic technique (2004) (0)
- Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture (2010) (0)
- America as Wasteland in Detour (2012) (0)
- Luke Wilson, Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. x + 362 pages (2001) (0)
- The economics of philosophical anthropology (2019) (0)
- Patrick Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp. 308 (2020) (0)
- Bloom, Allan (1930–92) (2014) (0)
- The heritage of Hamlet (2004) (0)
- Shakespeare and the Good Life: Ethics and Politics in Dramatic Form (1999) (0)
- The membranes, preferably for use in hemodialysis (1977) (0)
- List of reviewers (2021) (0)
- The Fall of the House of Ulmer (2012) (0)
- Shakespeare: Hamlet: Hamlet and the Renaissance (2004) (0)
- Shakespeare: Hamlet: Guide to further reading (2004) (0)
- Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture: Paul A Cantor (2004) (0)
- Order Out of the Mud (2012) (0)
- Un-American Gothic (2012) (0)
- Get with the Program: The Medium Is Not the Message (2010) (0)
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