Role

Some recent publications:

"History, Fiction, and the Avant-Garde: Narrativisation and the Event"
Phrasis, Vol 48.1 (2007) 83-103.

"Modernism and the Cinema: 'Metropolis' and the Expressionist Aesthetic" Comparative Critical Studies, Vol 4 (2006) 105-120.

"Expressionism and Modernism" The Blackwell Companion to Modernism (2005).

"The Act of Viewing: Iser, Bordwell and the 'post-theory' debates in contemporary film studies" Comparative Critical Studies, Vol 1 (2004) 119-145.

"The Marginalisation of Art: The Avant-Garde, De-Realisation, and the Art Attack" Nordlit, Vol 21 (2007) 5-19.

Theorising the Avant-Garde: Modernism Expressionism and the Problem of Postmodernity, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Currently supervising DPhil theses on:

Thomas Pynchon, Postmodernism and Contemporary French Thought

Metalepsis and Self-Reflexive Cinema

Reception Theory, The Viewer and Film

Bollywood, Postmodernism and Contemporary Cinema

Anxiety in Contemporary American Literature and Film

Masculinity and Contemporary British Cinema

Zizek, Lacan and Cinema

Foreignness and Transnational Cinema: Modernity, Postmodernity, Nation

modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernism and contemporary culture; literature, film, visual culture and theory.

Office Hours for this term:

-Monday 1-2pm in Arts B320 (you may simply drop by but it is wise to use the sign-up sheet on door)

-Monday at 5.50pm in Bramber Hse 237 (wherever possible, please e-mail to book a slot).

You are welcome aslo to talk after each class. As needed, I can also arrange an extra slot on Wednesdays (usually at 9am in B320). But please e-mail to book this.

If you cannot make any of these times, please contact me by email to arrange a meeting at another time (contact r.murphy@sussex.ac.uk).

Murphy, Richard (2007) History, fiction, and the avant-garde: narrativisation and the event. Phrasis: Studies in Language and Literature, 48 (1). pp. 83-103.

Murphy, Richard (1995) Hans Robert Jauss: Literaturgeschichte als Provokation. In: Lexikon literaturtheoretischer Werke. Kröners Taschenausgabe, 425 . Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart. ISBN 9783520425010

Murphy, Richard (1995) Hans Robert Jauss: sthetische Erfahru. In: Lexikon literaturtheoretischer Werke. Kroner Verlag, Stuttgart. ISBN 9783520425010

Murphy, Richard (1995) Wolfgang Iser: Die Appellstruktur der Texte. In: Lexikon literaturtheoretischer Werke. Kröners Taschenausgabe, 425 . Kroner Verlag, Stuttgart. ISBN 9783520425010