David Darby
Associate Professor
Director, Ontario/Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program
Ph.D. Queen's
Office: UC 3310
Extension: 85857
Email: ddarby@uwo.ca
Areas of Interest
- Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Culture
- The City in Literature and Visual Culture
- Literature and Culture of Berlin
- Theodor Fontane
- W.G. Sebald
Publications
Books
Darby, David, ed. Critical Essays on Elias Canetti. Critical Essays on World Literature. New York: G.K. Hall, 2000. xii + 299pp.
———. Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Literature 1 (1994). 284pp.
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
David Darby. “‘ein Ort, wo sich alles in einen Haufen zusammendrängt’: Berlin’s Zeltenplatz as Contested Urban Space.” German Life and Letters 73 (2020): in press.
———. “‘nicht zu nah und nicht zu weit’: Windows and the Domestication of Modernity in Fontane’s Berlin.” Windows: Motif and Topos in Austrian, German and Swiss Art and Literature. Ed. Heide Kunzelmann and Anne Simon. Munich: Iudicium, 2016. 85–109.
———. “Stations, Dark Rooms, and False Worlds in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W.G. Sebald. Ed. Jeannette Baxter, Valerie Henitiuk, and Ben Hutchinson. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2013. 166-84.
Darby, David, and Jan Horner. “Archive und Bibliotheken: Beispiele aus dem englischsprachigen Raum.” Handbuch Kanon und Wertung: Theorien, Instanzen, Geschichte. Ed. Gabriele Rippl and Simone Winko. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013. 232-39.
Darby, David. “Theodor Fontane und die Vernetzung der Welt: Die Mark Brandenburg zwischen Vormoderne und Moderne.” Metropole, Provinz und Welt: Raum und Mobilität in der Literatur des Realismus. Ed. Roland Berbig and Dirk Göttsche. Schriften der Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013. 147–64.
———. “Elias Canetti’s Cities.” Oxford German Studies 39 (2010): 80-93.
———. "Landscape and Memory: Sebald's Redemption of History." W.G. Sebald: History — Memory — Trauma. Ed. Scott Denham and Mark McCulloh. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006. 263-75.
———."The Emotions in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Walter Benjamin, Memory, and Modernity," Emotions and Cultural Change/Gefühle und kulturelle Wandel. Ed. Burkhardt Krause and Ulrich Scheck. Stauffenburg Colloquium 56. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2006. 171-180.
Darby, David, John M. Ellis, and Evelyn W. Asher. “German Theory and Criticism 4: Twentieth Century to 1968. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreisworth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. 449-54.
———. “German Theory and Criticism 5: 1968 and After. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreisworth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. 454-58.
Darby, David. "Form and Context Revisited." Poetics Today 24 (2003): 423- 37.
———."The Unfettered Eye: Glimpsing Modernity from E.T.A. Hoffmann's Corner Window." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Geistesgeschichte und Literaturwissenschaft. 77 (2003): 274-94.
———."Form and Context: An Essay in the History of Narratology." Poetics Today 22 (2001): 829-52.
———. “Photography, Narrative, and the Landscape of Memory in Walter Benjamin’s Berlin.” Germanic Review 75 (2000): 210-25.
———. “Introduction.” Critical Essays on Elias Canetti. Ed. David Darby. Critical Essays on World Literature. New York: G.K. Hall, 2000. 1-12.
———. “Elias Canetti.” Encyclopedia of the Essay. Ed. Tracy Chevalier. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. 151-53.
———. "A Literary Life: The Textuality of Elias Canetti's Autobiography." Modern Austrian Literature 25.2 (1992): 37-49.
———. "Esse percipi, Sein ist Wahrgenommenwerden': Perception and Perspective in Berkeley and Canetti." Neophilologus 75 (1991): 425-32.
———. "A Fiction of Detection: The Police Enquiry in Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fé." Semiotics 1988. Ed. Terry Prewitt, et al.Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1989. 343-49.
———. "The Narrative Text as Palimpsest: Levels of discourse in Peter Handke's Die Hornissen." Seminar 23 (1987): 251-64.
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-Fé,” by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. 38-40.
———.“Auto-da-Fé,” 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.
Honour
In 2018 David Darby was awarded the Order of Merit (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) of the Federal Republic of Germany.
