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Paul Armstrong

Professor of English

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

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 0650H - S01: Realism and Modernism -- CRN 11368
  •   ENGL 1760Q - S01: James Joyce and the Modern Novel -- CRN 14977
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 1710W - S01: Literary Impressionism -- CRN 24973
  •  ENGL 1900P - S01: History of Criticism from Plato to Postmoderism -- CRN 24979

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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 reading, 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).