Michael Sprinker
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Michael Sprinker (8 February 1950 in Elgin, Illinois – 12 August 1999) was a literary critic known for his writings on Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, among others, as well as for his editorial work at Verso, Cambridge University Press, the New Left Review and The Minnesota Review. With Mike Davis, Sprinker co-founded Verso's Haymarket series and was said to have guided it until his death.[1] He also taught at Oregon State University[2] and the State University of New York at Stony Brook[citation needed].
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- "A Counterpoint of Dissonance": The Aesthetics and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Johns Hopkins UP, 1980)
- History and Ideology in Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic (Cambridge UP, 1994)
- Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism (Verso, 1987)
- A Singular Voice: Collected Writings of Michael Sprinker ed. Aijaz Ahmad, Fred Pfeil and Modhumita Roy (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Jacques Derrida: Politique et amitié : Entretiens avec Michael Sprinker sur Marx et Althusser, Paris: Editions Galilée, 2011, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
As editor
[edit | edit source]- The Althusserian Legacy
- Edward Said: A Critical Reader
- Ghostly Demarcations
External links
[edit | edit source]- "Committed to the End: Michael Sprinker: 1950-1999" by Alan M. Wald
- "Legacies of Michael Sprinker" at The Minnesota Review
References
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