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Paul Armstrong

Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 420
Phone: (401) 863-3734

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 0650H - S01: Realism and Modernism -- CRN 11920
 ENGL 2900G - S01: History and Form -- CRN 15749

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Degrees
Ph.D. Stanford University 1977
M.A. Stanford University 1974
B.A. Harvard College 1971 summa cum laude

Research Interests
Modernism, the novel, literary theory

Professional Accomplishments
Armstrong teaches courses that encompass literary modernism and theories of reception, interpretation, and representation. He has published four books, The Phenomenology of Henry James (U of North Carolina Press, 1983), The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford (Cornell UP, 1987), Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (U of North Carolina Press, 1990), and Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form (Cornell UP, 2005). He has edited Norton Critical Editions of E. M. Forster, Howards End (W. W. Norton, 1998) and Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (W. W. Norton, 2006).