Papers and Manuscripts

ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS


The theorists whose papers are held in the CTA represent various schools of thought, including Deconstruction (Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Eugenio Donato), Reader-Reception Theory (Stanley Fish and Wolfgang Iser), Political Philosophy (Richard Rorty and Étienne Balibar) and Anglo-American Criticism (Ihab Hassan, Murray Krieger, and René Wellek).

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IHAB HABIB HASSAN PAPERS

Ihab Habib Hassan was a prominent critic, scholar, and theorist in the academic study of literature. While focusing his scholarship on the post-war novel, he was among the first to articulate a concept of "the postmodern." This collection documents the academic work of the literary critic, scholar, and theorist. The bulk of these materials reflect his work on American fiction of the later twentieth century, in addition to his extensive writings on postmodernism, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The collection primarily contains holograph manuscripts, typescripts, offprints, and reprints of Hassan's published monographs and articles, in addition to professional papers and lecture materials. Some audio and video recordings are included. In 2017 a small addition of photographs, literary correspondence, notebooks, and one flash drive was added.

J. HILLIS MILLER PAPERS

J. Hillis Miller is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of nineteenth and twentieth century English and American literature and in literary theory. The collection best documents Miller's intellectual life as a specialist in Victorian and Modern British and American literature, a Derridean deconstructionist, and a university educator. Some personal material, such as family papers, photographs, and awards, are also included.

JACQUES DERRIDA PAPERS

Best known for the development of "deconstruction," Jacques Derrida was trained as a philosopher, but his work engages and transverses numerous other discourses such as literature, politics, law, religion, psychoanalysis, and ethnography. Ranging from his early work as a student to his recent seminars, the material in the archive spans from circa 1946 to 2000. This collection is comprised of manuscripts, typescripts, recordings, photographs, and an extensive clippings file documenting his professional career. It provides comprehensive documentation of his activities as a student, teacher, scholar, and public figure. In addition, Derrida's files on the 1988 controversy regarding Paul de Man's World War II-era writings are also included. The collection contains numerous pages of notes and written reports that reflect Derrida's academic training under the tutelage of figures such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. His commitment to teaching is documented by a full collection of teaching notes for the multitude of seminars that he has taught over the course of his career. The more public side of Derrida is also well represented by notes, working drafts, final drafts, and other materials related to his vast published output. With the exception of the photographs, the collection contains no material that might be described as "personal," such as private correspondence. The vast majority of the materials are in French.

JOHN CARLOS ROWE PAPERS

This collection includes the research and publications of John Carlos Rowe, literary critic and former professor of English at UC Irvine. The collection is primarily composed of his work as an author of literary criticism and works in American studies. It contains notes, drafts of essays, reviews, lecture and conference material, book manuscripts, galleys, and page proofs. Digital copies of two of Rowe's books have also been included.

LOUIS MARIN OFFPRINTS

Louis Marin was widely known for his work in a variety of areas: linguistics, semiotics, theology, philosophy, anthropology, rhetoric, art and institutional history and literary theory. Throughout his career, Marin's main intellectual focus was seventeenth-century French literature, particularly the works of Pascal, Perrault, Poussin and Philippe de Champaigne. In addition, he published numerous articles on the visual arts and religious texts. This collection comprises offprints of his critical theory articles published, and a bibliography of his work. The bulk of the materials are in French and English. The articles are arranged alphabetically by title, with date of publication indicated parenthetically following the title.

All collections are cataloged and many have extensive, fully searchable guides available in the Online Archive of California (OAC). The status of an unorganized, or unprocessed, collection is noted. Please contact us in advance regarding access to these collections.