Andrew McCann

Andrew McCann is a Professor of English at Dartmouth College in the USA. His most recent books are Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain and Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity.

Works By Andrew McCann

Philosophers of Decay: On the Prosaic Art of Dentistry
In the dentist’s chair, mortality is both obviated and underlined by the banality and the intensely personal quality of an experience that has almost no role to play in a narrative, other than to allow the banal and the personal to blunder tastele...
21 Sept. 2020
Allegory and the German (Half) Century: Imperium
‘Imperium is an allusion-filled, meta-fictional, inter-textual experiment that calls it own literary heritage into question, as if a certain kind of aesthetic experience were also one of the casualties of German history.’ Andrew McCann on Imperium...
28 Aug. 2015
Heroes, Tombs and Street Names: Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction
At the conclusion of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe, Chris Andrews captures the tension between the public articulation of Bolaño’s now canonical status and the almost inexhaustible fascination he provokes. Admitting that his own
21 Oct. 2014
Portrait of the Theorist as a Young Man: The Double Life of Paul de Man
The wager behind Barish’s book is twofold. Firstly, the book assumes that understanding de Man’s early life will cast some light on his subsequent work as a scholar and theorist. Secondly, and more pressingly, there is the possibility that de Man
5 Aug. 2014
Lives of the Publishers
In his posthumously published masterpiece 2666, Roberto Bolaño is clear-sighted enough to know that a visionary writer amounts to little without a visionary publisher. What would Benno von Archimboldi, the ‘great black shark’ of world literature,
5 Nov. 2013
Low Theory
Wark’s two books work sequentially, although they also loop around the same figures and concepts. They could be treated as histories of the Situationist milieu and its aftermaths, but to do so would miss entirely what makes them such compelling an...
4 June. 2013
Metropolis of Death
We could describe it as a memoir, given that Kulka’s own boyhood experiences in Auschwitz are at its centre. But the term memoir barely seems adequate to the introspective, often poetic, sometimes hallucinatory moments that it captures.
4 Apr. 2013

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Andrew McCann

Works By Andrew McCann

Philosophers of Decay: On the Prosaic Art of Dentistry

Allegory and the German (Half) Century: Imperium

Heroes, Tombs and Street Names: Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction

Portrait of the Theorist as a Young Man: The Double Life of Paul de Man

Lives of the Publishers

Low Theory

Metropolis of Death