David Darby
Associate Professor
Graduate Chair, Comparative Literature
Director of Ontario/Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program
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Ph.D. Queen's Office: UC 255 Extension: 85857 Email: ddarby@uwo.ca Office Hours: by appointment |
Areas of Interest
- Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Fiction
- Narrative Theory
- The City in Literature
- Modern German and Austrian Literature
- Elias Canetti
Representative Publications
Books
Darby, David, ed. Critical Essays on Elias Canetti. Critical Essays on World Literature. New York: G.K. Hall, 2000. xii + 299pp.
Darby David, Structures of Disintegration: Narrative Strategies in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung. Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Riverside, CA: Ariadne, 1992. x + 223pp.
Essays
Darby, David. "Landscape and Memory: Sebald's Redemption of History." W.G Sebald: History - Memory - Trauma. Ed. Scott Denham and Mark McCulloh. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006. 263-275.
Darby, David."The Emotions in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Walter Benjamin, Memory, and Modernity," Emotions and Cultural Change/Gef?hle und kulturelle Wandel. Ed. Burkhardt Krause and Ulrich Scheck. Stauffenburg Colloquium 56. T?bingen: Stauffenburg, 2006. 171-180.
Darby, David."Form and Context Revisited." Poetics Today 24 (2003): 423-37.
Darby, David."The Unfettered Eye: Glimpsing Modernity from E.T.A. Hoffmann's Corner Window." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift f?r Geistesgeschichte und Literaturwissenschaft. 77 (2003): 274-94.
Darby, David."Form and Context: An Essay in the History of Narratology." Poetics Today 22 (2001): 829?52. on-line version.
Darby, David.“Photography, Narrative, and the Landscape of Memory in Walter Benjamin’s Berlin.” Germanic Review 75 (2000): 210?25.
Darby, David.“Introduction.” Critical Essays on Elias Canetti. Ed. David Darby. Critical Essays on World Literature. New York: G.K. Hall, 2000. 1?12.
Darby, David.“Elias Canetti.” Encyclopedia of the Essay. Ed. Tracy Chevalier. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. 151?53.
Darby, David."A Literary Life: The Textuality of Elias Canetti's Autobiography." Modern Austrian Literature 25.2 (1992): 37?49.
Darby, David."Esse percipi, Sein ist Wahrgenommenwerden': Perception and Perspective in Berkeley and Canetti." Neophilologus 75 (1991): 425?32.
Translations
The following appear in Critical Essays on Elias Canetti, ed. David Darby (New York: G.K. Hall, 2000):
Darby, David, trans. “The Acoustic Mask: Toward a Theory of Drama,” Elias Canetti, in conversation with Manfred Durzak. 93?108.
____. “Auto-da-F?,” by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. 38?40.
____. “Auto-da-F?,” by Hermann Hesse. 37.
____. “The World Can No Longer Be Depicted as in Earlier Novels,” Elias Canetti, in conversation with Manfred Durzak. 41?54.
Darby, David, and Nancy Bray, trans. “The Individual and his Literature: On Elias Canetti’s Conception of the Writer," by Bernd Witte. 227?38.
____. “The Writer in Hiding,” by Claudio Magris. 279?91.
Darby, David, and Bruce Krajewski, trans. “Crowds and Power,” Elias Canetti and Theodor W. Adorno, in conversation. 137?53.
Theses Supervised
Christine Hill, "The Genesis of Silence: Ingeborg Bachmann and Yves Bonnefoy at the Limits of Language," M.A., Comparative Literature, 2002.
Ellen Painter-Zykmund, “Nation, Nationalism, and National Identity in E.M. Forster and Thomas Mann,” M.A.,? Comparative Literature, 1999.
Nancy A. Bray, “Incorporating the Sublime, or Translating the Body in Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Nicole Brossard’s Le D?sert mauve,” M.A., Comparative Literature, 1997.
Recent and Current Courses
Graduate (Comparative Literature)
Narratives of Modernism
W.G. Sebald
Undergraduate (Comparative Literature and Culture)
Documents of German Intellectual History
German Cultural Studies II: 1815 to present
Introduction to Literary Theory
The Modern Short Story
Twentieth-Century German Literature and Culture
Undergraduate (German)
German Cultural Studies II: 1815 to present
Intermediate German (with A. Borchert)
Introduction to German Literature (with A. Borchert)
Travel Literature
Twentieth-Century German Literature and Culture