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S. D. Chrostowska is a writer and an intellectual historian of modern critical thought.[1] She holds a professorship in 20th century continental thought at York University[2] in Canada.

Research

Chrostowska completed her PhD at the University of Toronto at the Centre for Comparative Literature under the supervision of Brian Stock. In 2014-2016 she was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow based at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Chrostowska's academic work is principally in the history of social and literary criticism (18th to 20th century). She writes mainly on Frankfurt School Critical Theory, and on the critical dimension of utopianism and nostalgia. Her first book, Literature on Trial (2012), examined the rise of modern literary criticism in connection with the development of literature as a separate domain.

Chrostowska also writes cultural criticism spanning academic and nonacademic genres. Matches (2015), her wide-ranging collection of philosophical, critical, and literary fragments, was anthologized in Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies (Schaffer Press, 2018).[3] In 2018 Noxious Sector Press released Something Other than Lifedeath, a book of articles focusing on her work and edited by David Cechetto.

Fiction

Chrostowska's epistolary novel, Permission, is composed of anonymous messages sent to a well-known filmmaker and includes black and white images. Quill & Quire called it "one of the most intellectually bracing, technically fascinating Canadian-authored novels" of 2013.[4]

Books

  • Matches: A Light Book, 2nd expanded edition, foreword by Alexander Kluge (Punctum Books, 2019)
  • Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700-1800 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012)[5][6]
  • Permission: A Novel (Urbana-Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013)[6][7]
  • Matches: A Light Book (Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2015)[6][8][9][10]
  • Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives, coedited with James D. Ingram (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2017)[11]

In French

  • Feux croisés: Propos sur l'histoire de la survie. Préfacé par Alexander Kluge. Traduit par Joël Gayraud (Paris, Klincksieck, 2019)[12]

References

  1. ^ http://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/sylwiac/
  2. ^ "S.D. Chrostowska | Faculty Profile | Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies". people.laps.yorku.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  3. ^ "Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies". books.google.fr.
  4. ^ "Permission by S.D. Chrostowska (Dalkey Archive)". quillandquire.com. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  5. ^ "Literature on Trial". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ a b c Daniel K. Green (April 16, 2016). "A Flare for Criticism". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Canada | Product Categories | Dalkey Archive Press". www.dalkeyarchive.com. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  8. ^ "Matches". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Ryan Ruby (May 9, 2016). "The Long History of a Short Form". Lapham's Quarterly. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  10. ^ Jeff Bursey (February 2016). "A Literary Incendiary Device: Review of Matches by S.D. Chrostowska". Numéro Cinq. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  11. ^ "Political Uses of Utopia - New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives | Columbia University Press". Columbia University Press. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  12. ^ https://www.klincksieck.com/livre/3480-feux-croises
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