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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RICHARD RORTY PAPERS

Richard Rorty was a pragmatist philosopher, critical theorist, and public intellectual. He is commonly described as one of the most influential thinkers of his era. A philosopher with a remarkably broad intellectual range, his work included the development of a distinctive brand of pragmatism as well as significant contributions to literary criticism, political theory, and other scholarly fields. He also wrote for such publications as The Nation and The Atlantic. This collection comprises manuscripts, teaching files, professional correspondence, research notes, biographical material, and ephemera. It also includes some family papers and correspondence, as well as writings dating to his youth. The collection includes digital files transferred from Rorty's computer disks and made available to researchers electronically through UCIspace @ the Libraries.

ROBERT LANGFORD MONTGOMERY JR. PAPERS

Robert Langford Montgomery Jr. was a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. This collection includes his personal and professional papers. It is composed of materials primarily related to Montgomery's education and career as a Shakespearean scholar. Included are personal memorabilia, student notes and notebooks, correspondence, research notes, annotated texts, essays, lectures, reviews, and books.

ROBERT WEIMANN PAPERS

This collection consists of published works by Robert Weimann, Shakespearean scholar and Professor Emeritus, Department of Drama, University of California, Irvine. The bulk of the collection consists of works by Weimann, comprising preprints, reprints, and offprints of journal articles, book chapters, and books. There is also the correspondence with Murray Krieger between 1988 and 1994.

STANLEY FISH PAPERS

This collection documents Stanley Fish's professional career as a literary theorist and academic. Materials are largely textual--including primarily drafts of his writings, publications, and clippings and photocopies for teaching and research purposes--and range in coverage from his early student work to his most recent professional activities and publications. The collection also includes a limited amount of correspondence, digital material, and many audio recordings, the latter of which document his activities as a public intellectual and teacher. Although each period of Fish's career is represented in collection materials, documentation from his time at Duke University is strongest. Materials documenting his activity as an administrator--department chair at Johns Hopkins and Duke, executive director of Duke University Press, and dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago--are very limited.

WOLFGANG ISER PAPERS

In the 1970s, Wolfgang Iser established himself as one of the leading figures in literary theory with such works as Der implizite Leser (1974, English ed. The Implied Reader) and Der Akt des Lesens (1978, English ed. The Act of Reading). As a result, he was associated with "reception theory," which was very influential in literary studies during the 1970s; it was especially well-received in the United States, along with "reader-response" criticism. This collection contains professional and private correspondence, papers presented at conferences, course reading and lecture notes, video recordings, and unpublished and published writings documenting his work as a teacher and scholar. The papers reflect Iser's main interests as a professor of English literature. The bulk of the material dates from after his appointment in 1967 as a professor at the University of Konstanz, in Germany. Some material documents his teaching at the University of California, Irvine from 1978 to 1998.

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.