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James Mellard

Professor Emeritus

20th-century American Literature, Literary Criticism

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Educational Background


Ph.D. The University of Texas; 1964

M.A. The University of Oklahoma; 1961

B.A. Lamar University; 1960


Professional Interests


American Literature

Literary Criticism and Theory

Post Freudian Psychoanalytic Literary Theory


Selected Publications >

Selected Publications

  • "The Jews of Ruby, Oklahoma: Politics, Parallax, and Ideological Fantasy in Toni Morrison’s Paradise." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 56.2 (2010): in press.
  • "‘To Endure and Go On’: Comedy, Castration, and the Phallus in Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost." Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer. Eds. Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2010. 229-54.
  • "Ralph Waldo Ellison: A Man of Letters for Our Time." Critique 51.2 (2010): 93-103.
  • "ÿiÿekian Reading: Sex, Politics, and Traversing (the) Fantasy in Toni Morrison’s Paradise." Studies in the Novel 40.4 (Winter 2008): 466-91.
  • "‘No ideas but in things’: Fiction, Criticism, and the New Darwinism." Style 41.1 (Spring 2007): 1-29.
  • Beyond Lacan. Albany: State University Press of New York, 2006.
  • "Oedipus against Narcissus: Father, Mother, and the Dialectic of Desire in Fitzgerald’s ‘Winter Dreams.’" Arizona Quarterly 58.4 (2002): 51-79.
  • "Death, Mourning, and Besse’s Ghost: From Philip Roth’s The Facts to Sabbath’s Theater." Shofar 19.1 (Fall 2000): 65-73.
  • "Reading Saint Flannery: Modernism, Sexuality, and the Culture of Psychoanalysis." Prospects 24 (1999): 625-43.
  • "Le Père ou Pire: The Forced Choice in Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers.’" Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 3.2 (Fall 1998): 145-60.
  • "Inventing Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Linguistics and Tropology in ‘The Agency of the Letter.’" Poetics Today 19.4 (Winter 1998): 499-530.
  • "Lacan and the New Lacanians: Josephine Hart’s Damage, Lacanian Tragedy, and the Ethics of Jouissance." PMLA 113.3 (May 1998): 395-407.
  • "The Other Desire: Good, Beauty, Death, and the Thing in Lacan’s Antigone." Clinical Studies 3.1 (1997): 11-30.
  • "Resisting the Melting Pot: The Jewish Back Story in the Fiction of Lynne Sharon Schwartz." Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers, ed. Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997. 175-93.
  • "Reading ‘Landscape’ in Literature." The Centennial Review 40.3 (Fall 1996): 471-90.
  • "Something New and Hard and Bright: Faulkner, Ideology, and the Construction of Modernism." Mississippi Quarterly 48.3 (Summer 1995): 459-79.
  • "Mailer’s Ancient Evenings: Origins, Language, and the Constitution of Reality." Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel Since the 1960s, ed. Ben Siegel and Melvin J. Friedman. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. 131-49.
  • "Framed in the Gaze: Haze, Wise Blood, and Lacanian Reading." New Essays on Wise Blood, ed. Michael Kreyling. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 51-69.
  • "Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism: Residual, Dominant, and Emergent Ideologies in As I Lay Dying." Faulkner and Ideology, ed. Ann Abadie and Donald Kartiganer. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995. 217-37.
  • Using Lacan, Reading Fiction. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
  • Doing Tropology: Analysis of Narrative Discourse. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
  • The Exploded Form: The Modernist Novel in America. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1980. Translated into Spanish as La Desintegracion de la Forma en la Novela Moderna. Buenos Aires: Fundacion Editorial de Belgrano, 1985.