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David F. Bell

Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
209 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Comme Elle Respire : Memory of Breath, Breath of Memory

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Pairing breaths: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmech's Terminal Sud (2019)

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

On the Nose

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Haiti Can't Breathe

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Introduction the editors of substance

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2019 Cite

The Editors of SubStance Introduction

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 2019 Cite

Voice

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Disciplinary quandaries

Journal Article Nineteenth-Century French Studies · March 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Spatial memory: Variations on classical themes

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Incipit: On the Present and Future of the Field

Journal Article NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES · 2016 Cite

Introduction: The editors of substance

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Impact, or the business of the university

Journal Article Sub-Stance · May 17, 2013 Full text Cite

Le Tact de Stendhal

Journal Article · 2013 Cite

Le Tact de Stendhal

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Michel Serres

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or Is It Safe to Be Underground?

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · April 1, 2008 The strategic fascination with the mountain redoubts of the Taliban on Tora Bora in Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion was symptomatic of a longer cultural history of bunkers. W. G. Sebald and Paul Virilio have both written about the bunker in its ... Full text Cite

Comme Elle Respire : Memory of Breath, Breath of Memory

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Pairing breaths: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmech's Terminal Sud (2019)

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

On the Nose

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Haiti Can't Breathe

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Introduction the editors of substance

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2019 Cite

The Editors of SubStance Introduction

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 2019 Cite

Voice

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Disciplinary quandaries

Journal Article Nineteenth-Century French Studies · March 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Spatial memory: Variations on classical themes

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Incipit: On the Present and Future of the Field

Journal Article NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES · 2016 Cite

Introduction: The editors of substance

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Impact, or the business of the university

Journal Article Sub-Stance · May 17, 2013 Full text Cite

Le Tact de Stendhal

Journal Article · 2013 Cite

Le Tact de Stendhal

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Michel Serres

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or Is It Safe to Be Underground?

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · April 1, 2008 The strategic fascination with the mountain redoubts of the Taliban on Tora Bora in Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion was symptomatic of a longer cultural history of bunkers. W. G. Sebald and Paul Virilio have both written about the bunker in its ... Full text Cite

Michel Serres

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Science and Philosophy

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Gustave Le Rouge et La Conspiration des milliardaires: M.A.D. avant la lettre

Journal Article Spec. issue "Science et littérature," Alliage · 2006 Cite

After 9/11: European Perspectives

Other Spec. issue of Contemporary French Civilization · 2005 Cite

Here, There, Anywhere

Journal Article Spec. issue "After 9/11: European Perspectives," Contemporary French Civilization · 2005 Cite

Vitesse et présent dans Lucien Leuwen

Journal Article L'Année stendhalienne · 2005 Cite

Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime

Journal Article Yale French Studies · 2005 Full text Cite

Infinite Archives

Journal Article Spec. issue "Overload," SubStance · October 2004 Cite

Overload

Journal Article Sub-Stance · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Momentarily

Journal Article SubStance · March 2003 Cite

Momentarily (On the 100th issue of SubStance)

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 2003 Cite

Confessions of an Almost-Thematic Critic

Journal Article Contemporary French Civilization · October 2002 Cite

A Moratorium on Suspicion

Journal Article PMLA · May 2002 Cite

A Moratorium on Suspicion?

Journal Article PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · May 2002 One of my colleagues stopped me in the hall recently to explain how happy she was to have reached a moment in her academic career when she no longer had to teach literature. Another colleague buttonholed me at about the same time to tell me he coul ... Full text Cite

Effets collatéraux

Journal Article Cahiers du CRIN · 2001 Cite

Text, Context: Transatlantic Sokal

Journal Article Spec. issue "France/USA: The Culture Wars," Yale French Studies · 2001 Cite

Text, Context: Transatlantic Sokal

Journal Article Yale French Studies · 2001 Full text Cite

Monkey Business

Journal Article Texte: Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire · July 1999 Cite

Pensée probabiliste et récit policier

Journal Article Spec. issue "L'écrit de la science", Alliage · January 1999 Cite

Monkey business (Typewriter, text, and probability)

Journal Article TEXTE-REVUE DE CRITIQUE ET DE THEORIE LITTERAIRE · 1999 Cite

Reading corpses: Interpretive violence

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 1998 Cite

Reading violence

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 1998 Cite

Communication: Euphoria, dysphoria

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 1997 Cite

'THERESE RAQUIN' - SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN ZOLA LABORATORY

Journal Article NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES · 1995 Cite

Balzac contre Balzac: les cartes du lecteur

Journal Article Nineteenth-Century French Studies · January 1994 Cite

STATISTICAL THINKING IN BALZAC - LE 'COUSIN PONS'

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 1994 Cite

BALZAC AGAINST BALZAC - READERS MAP - SCHUEREWEGEN,F

Journal Article NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES · 1994 Link to item Cite

Bifurcations: Espace et pouvoir dans Germinal

Journal Article Les Lettres Romanes · November 1991 Full text Cite

BALZAC-SARL + 'ILLUSIONS PERDUES' BY BALZAC,HONORE,DE

Journal Article FRENCH FORUM · 1989 Cite

EPIGRAMS AND MINISTERIAL ELOQUENCE - THE WAR OF WORDS IN BALZAC LA 'PEAU DE CHAGRIN'

Journal Article NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES · 1987 Cite

L'Innommable: Essai sur l'oeuvre d'Emile Zola

Journal Article MLN · September 1985 Full text Cite

LA 'CHANDELLE VERTE' AND THE FAIT-DIVERS + JARRY

Journal Article ESPRIT CREATEUR · 1984 Cite

Stendhal et le langage

Journal Article MLN · May 1983 Full text Cite