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Hogan, Patrick Colm was born on August 28, 1957 in St. Louis. Son of Patrick Colm and Madonna (Scully) Hogan.
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This interpretive study analyzes the complex politics of literature, criticism, and professionalism. While affirming the profound importance of political analysis--from the ideological critique of literary texts to the social and economic critique of academic institutions--Hogan reassesses the poststructuralist doctrines that underlie much recent work in this area. He presents extended expositions and criticisms of the views of several influential poststructuralist writers, including Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray. In keeping with recent "post-poststructuralist" trends in France and elsewhere, Hogan argues for the political necessity of rational inference, and empirical enquiry, guided by ethical, and more specifically Kantian, considerations. In the process, he convincingly formulates a general theory of ideology that recognizes the crucial link between literary politics and the concrete political issues that affect the lives of real men and women in the real world of social and material life. His study concludes with an economic analysis of the institutions of literary study, outlining some anarchist implications for their restructuring.
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From the Foreword: "Hogan's fresh approach to the often tenuous aspects of literary influence provides him with a tool with which to view both Milton and Joyce anew, and in the process offers literary critics a theoretical method that can be extended to other authors as well." "Fully examines the relationship between these two giants; it also provocatively sketches a sophisticated theory of literary influence that avoids the Freudian pitfalls of Bloom on the one hand and the gassy tenuousness of poststructuralist intertextuality on the other. Hogan is a gifted writer with a lively and engaging prose style."--R. B. Kershner, University of Florida Patrick Hogan examines the complex and conflicted relation of James Joyce's works--primarily the epic novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake--to one of the most important and influential epics in English, Milton's Paradise Lost, and to other Milton works. Though Stephen Dedalus expresses his poetic ambition as "rewriting Paradise Lost," though he teaches "Lycidas," and though Milton is amply present in Finnegans Wake, virtually nothing has been written on this important literary relationship. Hogan traces the deep structural affinities that link the writers, arguing that Milton provided a crucial model for Joyce to create his great "works of mourning," Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition, Hogan sets the novels in a larger tradition of European and Middle Eastern retellings of the fall of humankind, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century revisions of Paradise Lost. From this perspective, he analyzes the structure and technique of Ulysses and of Finnegans Wake and interprets key passages in a way that helps make these works comprehensible even to a novice reader. As part of his study Hogan draws on psychoanalysis, cognitive science, Sanskrit aesthetics, and cultural materialism to formulate a theory of influence with implications that reach beyond the study of Joyce and Milton. Patrick Colm Hogan is associate professor of English and associate head of the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature and On Interpretation: Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, and the coeditor of Criticism and Lacan: Essays and Dialogue on Language, Structure, and the Unconscious, and Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture.
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Hogan, Patrick Colm was born on August 28, 1957 in St. Louis. Son of Patrick Colm and Madonna (Scully) Hogan.
Bachelor in Philosophy, University Santa Clara, 1977. Master of Arts in Philosophy, University Chicago, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy in English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1983.
Assistant Professor of English, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1983-1987; assistant Professor of English, U. Connecticut, Storrs, 1987-1990; associate Professor of English, U. Connecticut, Storrs, 1990-1996; Professor of English, since 1996.
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Member Modern Language Association, James Joyce Society M C.
Married Lalita Pandit, December 30, 1983.