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David McNeil,
Associate Professor
"Ultimately the life of a man is of no greater importance to the
universe than the life of an oyster."
Hume, from
Essays ... (1783 ed.)
Department of English
6135 University (New FASS Building), Office 3193
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4P9 CANADA
dmcneil@dal.ca
(902) 494-3508
Status: "Listed as day-to-day" (aren't we all?)
Teaching and Research Interests
- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Teaching in an WWW environment
(WebCT
software)
- Comedy and Satire
- Fictionalization of America (the eighteenth-century English novel)
- War and the Arts
- South Sea Bubble (The Bubble Project)
- Newspapers: 1660-1800 (e.g., London Gazette)
- theory of the Spectacle (Debord's The Society of the Spectacle
(1967); see also
the film,
and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988)
- sports literature, Hockey in
Print (HIP): Bibliography of Writing on Hockey, over 500 items! Searchable (keyword, author, title, year).
- Selected Publications
- Recent Conference Papers
- Office Hours: Wed. 9:00 - 11:00 am, Thurs. 1:00 - 3:00 pm (call 494-3384 to book an appointment).
Classes Currently Teaching or Taught:
Other Enthusiasms:
- Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (excellent analysis of the emphasis on spectacle and entertainment in contemporary society);
Forward
- David Foster Wallace's
Infinite Jest - please e-mail me if you wish to discuss this
novel.
-
, especially
The Gold Rush 
(wonderfully funny and moving),
- Miles Davis,
- The Who
- always Arthur
Schopenhauer,
... the will,
existence itself, is a constant suffering, and is partly woeful, partly
fearful. The same thing, on the other hand, as representation alone,
purely contemplated, or repeated through art, free from pain, presents
us with a significant spectacle. The World as Will and
Representation I.52
- Okay, I confess
, remember the roar? and
Noon-Hour Hockey and
and Inline Hockey.
Last Updated: Jan. 3, 2007
