Background
Simon During was born on February 3, 1950. He is a son of Peter During, a research scientist, and Zoe During, a medical doctor.
Simon During, educator, writer, author.
Wellington 6012, New Zealand
Simon During received a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University.
Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Simon During received Master of Arts with first-class honors from the University of Auckland.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Simon During received a Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University.
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The writings of the French historian, literary critic, and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. Simon During provides a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. His study takes in Foucault's early studies of transgressive writing from Sade and Artaud to the French new novelists' of the 1960s, and his later concern with the genealogy of the author/intellectual, writing and theorizing within specific, historical mechanisms of social control and production. Foucault and Literature offers a critique both of Foucault and of the literary studies that have been influenced by him and goes on to develop new methods of post-Foucauldian literary/cultural analysis.
https://www.amazon.com/Foucault-Literature-Accents-Simon-During/dp/0415012422/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Foucault+and+Literature%3A+Towards+a+Genealogy+of+Writing&qid=1590992838&sr=8-1
1992
(The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for...)
The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for students. A revised introduction explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies brings together important articles by leading thinkers to provide an essential guide to the development, key issues and future directions of cultural studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Studies-Reader-Simon-During/dp/0415374138/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=simon+during&qid=1590993233&sr=8-1
1993
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Simon During takes advantage of published letters and biographical information to rethink Patrick White's place in Australian history and culture. He argues that White's rather conventional modernist writings negotiated the end of colonial relations with Britain. During addresses connections between White's homosexuality and his writing, suggesting that many of his texts attain some of their most powerful effects from being written in and about the closet. In addition, he views White as an autobiographical writer who drew on his life to construct an image of himself as a genius: a strategy that successfully set him at the head of Australian national literature.
https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-White-Australian-Writers-During/dp/0195534972/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Patrick+White+simon+during&qid=1590993044&sr=8-1
1996
(Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern cul...)
Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts-and by "magic" During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows-affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deep into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation.
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Enchantments-Cultural-Power-Secular/dp/0674013719/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Modern+Enchantments%3A+The+Cultural+Power+of+Secular+Magic&qid=1590993148&sr=8-1
2002
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Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.
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2009
(Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and th...)
Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and the techniques of close reading, Against Democracy offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing democracy, of literary criticism's contribution to that ethos, and of the history of conservatism, as well as innovative interpretations of a range of writers, including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Saul Bellow.
https://www.amazon.com/Against-Democracy-Literary-Experience-Emancipations/dp/0823242544/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=simon+during&qid=1590993390&s=books&sr=1-3
2012
Simon During was born on February 3, 1950. He is a son of Peter During, a research scientist, and Zoe During, a medical doctor.
Simon During received a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University, New Zealand, in 1970; a Master of Arts with first-class honors from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1975; and a Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University, United Kingdom, in 1982.
In 1977-1978, Simon During worked as a tutor in English at Kings and Trinity Colleges of Cambridge University. He first joined the English Department at the University of Melbourne in 1983 as a tutor, becoming a lecturer in 1985, and a senior lecturer in 1989. He was appointed Robert Wallace Professor at the University of Melbourne in 1993. As Head of Department there in the late 1990s, he was instrumental in establishing the Cultural Studies, Media and Communications, and Publishing programs. In 2001, he left Melbourne for Johns Hopkins University, where he taught in the English department for nine years. Between 2010 and 2017, he was a Research Professor at the University of Queensland as well as holding visiting positions at the FU Berlin, Tübingen, Université Paris, the American Academy of Rome, University of Cambridge, and elsewhere. In 2017, he rejoined the University of Melbourne's School of Communications and Culture as an Honorary Professor.
His visiting appointments include: Visiting Lecturer at the University of Auckland in 1984; Visiting Professor at Rhetoric Department, University of California, Berkeley in 1991; Visiting Scholar at English Department, Brown University in 1995; Visiting Professor at English Department, University of Queensland in 2008; Ludwig Hirschfield Mack Visiting Chair at Freie Universität, Berlin, in 2012; Centenary Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome, in June 2014; Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, Tübingen Universität, in August 2015 to December 2016; Professeur Invité at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, in January 2017; Erudite Scholar in Residence at Kerala States Higher Education Council, in September 2019. He was a member of the International Advisory Board, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft Cluster of Excellence, Frei Universität, Berlin, in 2019.
During's research interests include Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, British Literature, Political Theory, Cultural Theory, Victorian Studies, Literary Theory, Anglicanism, Critical Theory, Post-Colonialism, Michel Foucault, Postcolonial Studies, Australian Literature, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Theory.
Simon During's first book, Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing, was published in 1992. The first part of the book summarizes Foucault's major arguments and discusses their relevance to the works of Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Henry James, and other literary giants. The second half of the book attempts a Foucauldian analysis of literature itself, exploring the power relationships in the literary canon and its transmission over the years. In his book Patrick White, published in 1996, During explores the life and influence of this giant of Australian literature, focusing in particular on White's homosexuality and how it affected his writing. In Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic, published in 2002, he describes the development of magic from a dark and unsavory subject to a modem entertainment and the ways in which this "secular magic" has found its way into the wider culture. His other books include exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity, 2009, and, most recently, Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations, 2012.
(Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and th...)
2012(The writings of the French historian, literary critic, an...)
1992(Simon During takes advantage of published letters and bio...)
1996(Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies ...)
2009(The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for...)
1993(Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern cul...)
2002
Simon During married Lisa O'Connell in 2002. He has a son Nicholas from his first marriage.