Engelsk institutt

Charles I. Armstrong
Department of English
University of Bergen

Associate Professor (førsteamanuensis) at the English dept. of the University of Bergen since August 2003. PhD degree (dr. art.) in Comparative Literature (Univ. of Bergen) in 2001, Master of Arts (cand. philol) in Comparative Literature (Univ. of Tromsø) in 1995. Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, at the Univ. of Cambridge, from August 2002 to July 2003. Lecturer at the W. B. International Summer School in Sligo, 2005.

Primary research interests and areas of supervision

• British poetry from 1790 to the present.
• Modern literary theory.
• Irish literature, with an emphasis on W. B. Yeats and contemporary poetry.

Main works

Book: Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2003.

Unpublished dissertation: The Time of the Fragment: Reading Shelley by way of Blanchot. Master’s thesis (hovedoppgave) at the Comparative Literature department at the University of Tromsø, Spring 1995.

Co-editor, with Øyunn Hestetun, of Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History and the Ironies of Narrative, published by Novus Forlag in 2006.

Published articles and reviews

1995-1999
" Introductions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of Literature," in Teorismer, edited by Even Arntzen and Rolf Gaasland, Tromsø studies in literature, no. 5, 1995, pp. 7-28.

“The Sacrifices of Ellen Einan." An article about the contemporary Norwegian poet published in Scandinavian Studies, Spring 1997, volume 69, no. 2, pp. 212-242.

"The Deferences of Friendship: Between Poetry and Prayer in Coleridge’s Conversation Poems," in The Coleridge Bulletin, Autumn 1999, no. 14, pp. 40-46.

"Sårets grå sensommer." A review of Ellen Einan’s poetry volume Innenfor og utenfor er ett, in Klassekampen, 18 September, 1999, pp. 22-23.

2000
" Inter-diction: Fragments Toward a Study of Francis Bacon." An article about the painter published in Prosopopeia, no. 2, 2000, pp. 27-34.

"Tårer og det fabelaktige: Om Obstfelders Brokker og Stubber." An article about the Norwegian poet Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866-1900) published in the electronic journal Localmotives, no. 3, Autumn 2000 (see www.localmotives.com/frameset/frameset3.html).

"Begging Questions: The Urban Vision of Wordsworth’s The Prelude," in Slöja & spegel – Romantikens former (Aiolos, nos. 14-15). Edited by Jan Arnald, Ingemar Haag, Jan Holmgaard, Roland Lysell and Jakob Staberg, Stockholm: Aiolos Forlag, 2000, pp. 163-177.

"Tilbake til glemselen." A review of the Norwegian translation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel When We Were Orphans, in Klassekampen, 2 October, 2000, pp. 12-13.

"Inderlighetens skygge." A review of the Norwegian translation of Haruki Murakami’s novel West of the Sun, South of the Border, in Klassekampen, 25 November, 2000, p. 18.

"Kavringmakk og romantiske følelser." A review of Mjølk av Paradis: Engelsk og skotsk lyrikk frå Thomas Gray til John Clare (Norwegian translations of English and Scottish poetry by Johannes Gjerdåker), in Klassekampen, 27 November, 2000, p. 16.

"The Absolute Implied: Coleridge on Wordsworth and the Bible," in Literature and Theology, volume 14, no. 4, December 2000, pp. 363-372.

2001
" Modernisme på engelsk." A review of James Fenton’s The Strength of Poetry and David Bromwich’s Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry, in Morgenbladet, 15 June, 2001, p. 14.

"‘Mixed Essence’: Byrons Manfred og romantikkens motkrefter," in Vagant, no. 2/3, part I, 2001, pp. 66-73.

"Fra kritikk til organisme: Systemtenkning hos Kant og de tyske idealistene." An article on German Idealism in Prosopopeia, no. 2, 2001, pp. 50-58.

"Den samvittighetsfulle gjengivelse." A review of Peter R. Holm’s Diktet som tok fjellets plass (Norwegian translations of English and Latin American poetry), in Morgenbladet, 5 October, 2001, p. 15.

"Fotoets mytologi." A review of the Norwegian translation of Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, in Klassekampen, 6 December, 2001, pp. 14-15.

2002
"Å komme som en fremmed." A commentary on Ellen Einan’s poem "Min huds tvilling," in Prosopopeia, no. 1, 2002, pp. 88-89.

"Echo: Reading The Unnamable Through Kant and Kristeva," in Nordic Journal of English Studies, no. 1, 2002, volume 1, pp. 173-196.

"Sjelens kløe: Leser, komposisjon og temporalitet i Virginia Woolfs dagbøker." An article about Virginia Woolf’s diaries in Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, volume 5, no. 1, 2002, pp. 3-15.

"Skammens skrift." A review of the Norwegian translation of J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Klassekampen, 4 May 2002, p. 18.

"Noen hundre gjenfødsler." A review of the Norwegian translation of V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life, in Klassekampen, 16 May 2002, p. 16.

"Den snodige Shakespeare." A review of Per Olav Kaldestad’s Norwegian translation of Shakespeare’s songs and sonnets, in Morgenbladet, 7 June 2002, p. 14.

"I kroppens tidsalder." A review of Lucian Freud’s retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain, in Klassekampen, 16 September 2002, pp. 14-15.

"Dwelling upon Time: The Changing Function of Memory in the Poetry of Wordsworth," in Nordic Journal of English Studies, no. 2, 2002, pp. 215-232.

"Rock’n’roll-poetene – åtte år senere." A review of Simon Armitage’s The Universal Home Doctor, Glyn Maxwell’s The Nerve, and Paul Farley’s The Ice Age, in Morgenbladet, 6 December 2002, p. 15.

2003
" I strømmen av stemmer." A presentation of the T. S. Eliot prize winner, Alice Oswald’s poetry volume Dart, in Morgenbladet, 31 January 2003, p. 15.

"Biskop ut mot Blair." A piece on the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, in Morgenbladet, 28 February 2003, p. 15.

"En engelsk fantasi." A review of Peter Ackroyd’s Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, in Morgenbladet, 25 April 2003, p. 12.

"Mot utopien." A review of Antonio Negri’s Time for Revolution, in Morgenbladet., 2 May 2003, p. 16.

"Londons minner." A piece on Charles Saatchi and William Hazlitt, in Morgenbladet, 9 May 2003, p. 15.

"Den evigunge romantikeren." A review of Geir Uthaug’s Norwegian translation of John Keats’ Endymion, in Klassekampen, 14 June 2003, pp. 32-33.

"Viktorianske repetisjoner." A review of Julian Wolfrey’s Victorian Hauntings, Tim Armstrong’s Haunted Hardy, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s Victorian Afterlives, in Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, volume 6, no. 2, 2003, pp. 182-184.

"Joyce for hvermann." A review of Bjørn Tysdahl’s biography James Joyce. Liv og verk, in Morgenbladet, 24 October 2003, p. 10.

2004
" Portrett av dikteren som elitistisk entrepenør." A review of R. F. Foster’s biography W. B. Yeats: A Life. II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939, in Morgenbladet, 30 January 2004, pp. 26-27.

"‘Under Ben Bulben’: The Mountain of Myth over Yeats’ Dead Body." An internet publication in TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. No. 15/2003. WWW: http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/05_10/armstrong15.htm.

"Eksilets mange sidespor: Om Paul Muldoons poetiske vandringer" (co-written with Ruben Moi), in Vagant, no. 1, 2004, pp. 21-32.

“Skumringens språk.” A review of Ellen Einan’s poetry volume Dagen får min uro, in Morgenbladet, 1 October 2004, p. 44.

“‘This Wide Whisper Round My Head’: In Memoriam and the Complexity of Memory,” in Nordic Journal of English Studies, no. 3, 2004, volume 3, pp. 241-262.

“Refleksjonens rekonvalesens.” A review of Stein Jarvoll’s Ustadighet ustadighet, Øyvind Berg’s Chutzpah i måneskinn, and Tone Hødnebø’s Skamfulle Pompeii, in Vagant, no. 4, 2004, pp. 23-27.

2005
“ The Rights of Reverie: Contextualising Yeats’ Autobiographical Writings,” in Estragon, Spring 2005, pp. 9-13.

“On the Frontiers of Writing: The Emigrant Experiences of Drude Krog Janson and Sigbjørn Obstfelder,” in Asbjørn Grønstad and Lene Johannessen (eds.), To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson’s ‘A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter’. Oslo: Novus Press, 2005, pp. 43-53.

“Det livsviktige: Om W. B. Yeats og litteraturens biografiske dimensjon,” in Vagant, no. 4, 2005, pp. 102-113.

“What’s a Word Worth? Paul Muldoon’s ‘Yarrow’ and the Resistances of Recollection,” in Frank Beardow and Alison O’Malley-Younger (eds.), Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future. Sunderland: University of Sunderland University Press, 2005, pp. 143-151.

“Mourning Deconstruction: Derrida, de Man, and the Limits of Language” (in Leiv Egil Breivik and Orm Øverland (eds.), The Power of Language: A Collection of Essays. Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2005, pp. 15-26.

2006
“ Poetisk fascisme?” A review of W. J. McCormack’s Blood Kindred. W. B. Yeats: The Life, the Death, the Politics, in Morgenbladet, January 27, 2006, p. 31.

“A Singular Encounter: Jean-Luc Nancy, Gayatri Spivak and the Others” (co-written with Janne Stigen Drangsholt), in Armstrong and Hestetun (eds.), Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History and the Ironies of Narrative. Novus Forlag: Oslo, 2006, pp. 49-64.

“Det forrykte kor.” A review of Geoffrey Hill’s poetry volume Without Title, in Morgenbladet, May 12, 2006, p. 39.

“Forsoningens håndverk.” A review of Seamus Heaney’s poetry volume District and Circle, in Morgenbladet, June 9, 2006, p. 35.

"Touch and Go: Seamus Heaney and the Transcendence of the Aesthetic," in Irene Gilsenan-Nordin (ed.), The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006, pp. 213-225.

“Den gylne middelvei.” A review of Simon Armitage’s Homer’s Odyssey, in Morgenbladet, June 30, 2006, p. 37.