Denis Donoghue (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1991–92; 1995–96; 1996–97)
Project Title, 1991–92
Walter Pater: His Life, His Afterlife
New York University
Project Title, 1995–96
Aesthetic Aspects of Reading Literature
New York University
Project Title, 1996–97
Aesthetic Aspects of Reading Literature
New York University
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Fellowship Work Summary, 1991–92
Denis Donoghue wrote two chapters of a book to be called Walter Pater: His Life, His Afterlife. He wrote introductions to The Everyman Library edition of The Golden Bowl and to a new edition of Joyce’s Ulysses, as well as reviews of the work of Northrop Frye for the New York Review of Books and of the Yeats/Gonne Letters for the Independent (London).
Fellowship Work Summary, 1995–96
Denis Donoghue completed a book to be called The Practice of Reading. He wrote essays that will appear in The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, and The Sewanee Review, and he contributed to The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Review of Books. At the Conference of the Canadian Association of Irish Studies, he gave the plenary address on "The Politics of Irish Studies." Other speaking engagements included "Literature at the End of of the Century" (Adelphi University), "The Aesthetics of Counterstatement" (Kenneth Burke Conference, Duquesne University), "The Literature of the Irish Famine" and "Revising the Revisionists" (New York University), and "Orality, Literacy, and Their Discontents" (University of Virginia).
Fellowship Work Summary, 1996–97
Denis Donoghue concentrated on a book about T. S. Eliot. His recently completed volume, The Practice of Reading, will be published by Yale University Press.