Background
Giles, Paul David was born on September 13, 1957 in London. Came to the United States, 1987. Son of Peter Brian and Mary Alice (Cope) Giles.
(Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of relig...)
Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds such as Orestes Brownson, Theodore Dreiser, Mary McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Altman. The book also explores how Catholicism was represented and mythologized by other American writers. By highlighting the recurring themes and preoccupations of American Catholic fictions, Giles challenges many of the accepted ideas about the centrality of Romanticism to the American literary canon. He reconstructs the different social, historical, and philosophical contexts from which aesthetics in the "Catholic" tradition have emerged, and shows how these stand in an oblique relationship to the assumptions of the American Enlightenment.
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Giles, Paul David was born on September 13, 1957 in London. Came to the United States, 1987. Son of Peter Brian and Mary Alice (Cope) Giles.
Bachelor in English, Oxford (England) University, 1979. Master of Arts in English, Oxford (England) University, 1984. Doctor of Philisophy in English, Oxford (England) University, 1985.
Certified in education, London University, 1985.
Lecturer North Staffordshire (England) Polytechnic, 1985-1987. Assistant professor literature Portland (Oregon) State University, 1987-1992, associate professor, 1992-1994. Reader in British-American literature and culture University Nottingham, England, 1995-1999.
University lecturer American literature Cambridge University, since 1999.
(Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of relig...)
Member Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, British Association American Studies, Society Cinema Studies.
Married Nadine Lise Cornwall, December 18, 1989.