Ann Banfield

Ann Banfield, is a professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

Banfield has taught at Berkeley since 1975 and is a specialist in linguistics, critical theory and the use of philosophy as a cornerstone of modernism.^[2] In the field of narratology, Banfield has been given lasting credit for her concepts of narratorless subjectivity and addresseelessness in narration.^[3] Unlike linguists who apply linguistics to literature, Banfield has the sensitivity of a literary critic who has mastered linguistics.^[4]

Works

• Banfield, Ann (1982). Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction. Boston: Routledge & Paul. ISBN 9780710009050.
• Banfield, Ann (2006). The phantom table : Woolf, Fry, Russell, and epistemology of modernism. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-03403-6.

Awards

• 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[5]

Sources

1. http://english.berkeley.edu/contact/person_detail.php?person=12
2. Ann Banfield, Professor of English on the website of the University of California, Berkeley's French Studies Program
3. Meir Sternberg: "Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature", in: A Companion to Narrative Theory, edited by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz, Blackwell Publishing, Malden/Massachusetts and Oxford 2005, paperback edition 2008, ISBN 978-1-4051-1476-9 Tabel of contents, pp. 232–252
4. Christine Brooke-Rose: "Ill locutions", in: Poetics Today 11 (1990), S. 283–293, also included in: Stories, theories and things, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991, ISBN 0-521-39181-4, S. 63–80, see footnote 3.
5. http://www.gf.org/fellows/709-ann-banfield