Robert L Eisenhauer

Ode Consciousness examines a preeminent literary form in its three-thousand-year history, navigating between philosophy and literature, offering cross-cultural perspectives on a poetic logic informed by polar intensities of sensuous cognition. Making a double incision on the corpus, Robert Eisenhaue...

Aftermyths investigates fault-lines in literary and visual representation from 1870 to the early twentieth century as they range from a faux essentialism, often with ethnic overtones, to a cadence of decadence reflecting the dissensions of modernity. Reading Henry James and Mark Twain with side-glan...

Parables of Disfiguration examines literary and cinematic texts from the Romantic period forward, offering fresh perspectives on the vicissitudes of reason and excess - seen as moments leading to a seizure by sophia (wisdom). Reading canonical works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, but also less familiar po...

Paradox and Perspicacity: Horizons of Knowledge in the Literary Text enters into a dialogue with recent scholarship on a number of fronts. Taking into full account the role played by esotericism in shaping the thought of Leibniz, Cardano, and the Helmonts, Robert Eisenhauer elaborates Lessing’s cybe...

Gone are the days of the savoring of language. The painstaking care one would take in the creation of a handwritten letter, for example, or the attention to one’s colloquial vocabulary, has been replaced by a need for efficiency and time conservation—in the form of e-mails and cellular telephones. T...

Collecting texts written over the past twenty years, Fugues/Cartouches finds the poet confronting the past as well as the present and future through a series of bemused encounters - with Philadelphia, San Francisco, Mount Vernon, George Washington, and Ben Franklin, to name but a few of the American...

Focusing on specimens of discourse where criticism assumes a flagrantly bucolic persona, Archeologies of Invective investigates hitherto little acknowledged contexts of irony, aggressivity, and vilification. After considering briefly Lucilius and Horace, the author evaluates such diverse figures as ...

With two essays devoted to Wordsworth, The Fate of Translation reframes the discussion of Hesperian aesthetics initiated in Robert Eisenhauer’s Mythic Paradigms, suggesting how the question of translation poses itself at the crossing of textual high- and low-roads: on the one hand, in the critical a...