D. G. MYERS


Associate professor of English and religious studies
Texas A&M University
College Station TX  77843-4227
Phone 979-845-8345               Office: Blocker 206D                Fax 979-862-2292

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The Elephants Teach

Foreword by Jacques Barzun

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Unrelenting Readers

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Essays

• Michael Chabon's Imaginary Jews, Sewanee Review 116 (Fall 2008).

• On the Reform of Creative Writing in Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education: Anglo-American Perspectives, ed. Heather Beck (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

• Bad Writing, in Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent, ed. Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).

• Judaism and the Culture of Life. (Address to the Houston Hevra Kadisha, April 17, 2005.)

• Stanley Elkin’s Jewish Question, in A Casebook on Stanley Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show, ed. David C. Dougherty (Chicago: Dalkey Archive, 2003).

• Jean Améry: On Being a Jewish Victim, in Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work, ed. S. Lillian Kremer (New York: Routledge, 2002).

• Jews Without Memory: Sophie’s Choice and the Ideology of Liberal Anti-Judaism, American Literary History 13 (Fall 2001).

• Responsible for Every Single Pain: Holocaust Literature and the Ethics of Interpretation, Comparative Literature 51 (Fall 1999).

• The Silence of God. (Sermon at Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Mass., on February 21, 1998.)

• Between Stories: A Memoir of Raymond Carver, Philosophy and Literature 22 (October 1998).

• Judaism as Active Surrender. (Sermon at Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Mass., on December 26, 1998.)

• The Terror beyond Evil. (Sermon at Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Mass., on August 9, 1997.)

• Jacob and Esau after Two Decades: The Miracle of Forgiveness. (Sermon at Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Mass., on December 13, 1997.)

• Jerzy Kosinski: A Life beyond Repair, First Things, no. 63 (October 1996).

• Whatever Became of Poet-Critics? South Carolina Review 27 (Spring 1995).

• On the Teaching of Literary Theory, Philosophy and Literature 18 (October 1994).

• The Lesson of Creative Writing’s History, AWP Chronicle 26 (February 1994).

• Invitation to an Argument: Gerald Graff’s "Conflict Model" of Education, in Teaching the Conflicts: Gerald Graff, Curricular Reform, and the Culture Wars, ed. William E. Cain (New York: Garland, 1994).

• The Rise of Creative Writing, Journal of the History of Ideas 54 (April 1993).

• Warren and the History of Criticism, Midwest Quarterly 34 (Summer 1993).

• The Politics of Scholarship, South Carolina Review 25 (Spring 1993).

• The Universities in Crisis, American Spectator 26 (January 1993).

• Criticism According to Kenner, Sewanee Review 99 (Winter 1991).

• A Career in Literature: Howard Nemerov, Commentary 92 (November 1991).

• Learning to Be Human: Michael Oakeshott, American Scholar 59 (Autumn 1990).

• On Henry Louis Gates’s Signifying Monkey, New Criterion 8 (February 1990).

• Why College Sports, Commentary 90 (December 1990).

• The New Historicism in Literary Study, Academic Questions 2 (Winter 1988–89).

• The Bogey of the Canon, Sewanee Review 97 (Fall 1989).

• The Canonization of Susan Warner, New Criterion 7 (December 1988).

 

Resources

Hebrew Bible

•  Glossary of biblical interpretation

•  Vocabulary of biblical Hebrew

•  Canons of the Bible

•  Ken Hamel’s fully searchable Online Bible, including free downloads of the KJV, the Biblia Hebraica, a Hebrew lexicon based upon Brown-Driver-Briggs, and more

Holocaust Literature

•  Chronology of the Holocaust

•  A Holocaust lexicon

•   Michel Fingerhut’s large collection of Documentary Resources on the Nazi Genocide and its Denial, including the full text of essays by French writers including Nadine Fresco, Emmanuel Levinas, Jorge Semprún, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and many others

•  A bibliography of Holocaust diaries and chronicles in English

•  A bibliography of Holocaust memoirs in English

•  Holocaust literature [Judaic and Near Eastern studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst]

•  Annotated bibliography of Holocaust writing in American Jewish journals, 1945–1954

Course materials

Engl 376. Twentieth-century American novel. Spring 2009.

•  Syllabus

Engl 392. Introduction to Jewish literature. Spring 2009.

Texas A&M University / College of Liberal Arts / Department of English

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