Bruce Bashford
Emeritus Professor.
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1970; history and
theory of criticism; rhetoric and the teaching of writing; the logic of
interpretation and critical argument; humanism; Oscar Wilde
1094 Humanities; M 4-5, 7-8; W 11:30-12:30, 4-5 and by appt.
bruce.bashford@stonybrook.edu
1094 Humanities; M 4-5, 7-8; W 11:30-12:30, 4-5 and by appt.
bruce.bashford@stonybrook.edu
Selected Publications:
- "When Critics Disagree: Recent Approaches to Oscar Wilde," Victorian Literature & Culture (2002), 613-625.
- "Thinking in Stories: Oscar Wilde's 'The Sphinx Without a Secret,'" The Oscholars, October/November 2007.
- Oscar Wilde: the Critic as Humanist. Fairleigh Dickinson, 1999.
- "Humanism and the Humanism of Matthew Arnold's 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'." Essays in Literature 18 (1991): 196-210.
- "Hermeneutics in Oscar Wilde's 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H." Papers on Language and Literature 24.4 (1998): 412-22.
