Publications
Richard J. Lane is a prolific writer in the field of literature, literary theory and criticism. His works contribute to scholarly discourse while being accessible for students. These publications can be purchased online through the links provided, and his selected essays are available online.
Forthcoming
The Big Humanities: Digital Laboratories/Digital Humanities
Richard J. Lane. Forthcoming, Routledge, UK.
Doing Digital Humanities
Co-edited by Constance Crompton, Richard J. Lane and Raymond Siemens, Editors. Forthcoming, Routledge, UK.
Malcolm Lowry's Poetics of Space
Co-edited by Richard J. Lane and Miguel Mota. Forthcoming, University of Ottawa Press.
Academic Books
Global Literary Theory: An Anthology (2013)
Global Literary Theory: An Anthology. London & New York: Routledge, 2013, editor.
The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature (2011)
The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature. London & New York: Routledge, 2011.
Image Technologies in Canadian Literature: Narrative, Film, and Photography (2009)
Image Technologies in Canadian Literature: Narrative, Film, and Photography. Brussels: Lang, 2009, co-editor with Carmen Concilio.
Jean Baudrillard (2009)
Jean Baudrillard. Second Updated and Expanded Edition, London & New York: Routledge 2009.
Fifty Key Literary Theorists (2006)
Fifty Key Literary Theorists. London & New York: Routledge, 2006.
Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through The Catastrophe (2005)
Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through The Catastrophe. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Functions of the Derrida Archive: Philosophical Receptions (2003)
Functions of the Derrida Archive: Philosophical Receptions. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 2003.
Contemporary British Fiction (2003)
Contemporary British Fiction. Cambridge: Polity, 2003, co-editor with Rod Mengham & Philip Tew.
Beckett and Philosophy (2002)
Beckett and Philosophy. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, editor.
Literary Masterpieces: Mrs. Dalloway (2001)
Literary Masterpieces: Mrs. Dalloway. Detroit: Gale Research, 2001.
Jean Baudrillard (2000)
Jean Baudrillard. London & New York: Routledge, 2000; Japanese translation, Seidosha, 2006; Korean translation, LP Publishing, 2008.
Non-Refereed Books/Academic Pamphlets
Bibliography of Literary Criticism covering Canadian First Nations Literature
compiled and edited with Belinda Levasseur & Emily Garrett, Parenthesis & The Humanities Interdisciplinarity Research Group, VIU, Humanities Research Report Series, No. 3 (ISSN 0969-2339), Vancouver Island, 2010.
Art in West Coast Review
Elizabeth Haeseker Black (Leach), Parenthesis & The Humanities Interdisciplinarity Research Group, VIU, Humanities Research Report Series, No. 2 (ISSN 0969-2339), Vancouver Island, 2010.
Theorizing the Conjectural Order
Parenthesis & The Humanities Interdisciplinarity Research Group, VIU, Humanities Research Report Series, No. 1 (ISSN 0969-2339), Vancouver Island, 2009.
Literature and Loss: Bertrand William Sinclair’s British Columbia
The London Network for Modern Fiction Studies, Open Archive (ISBN 0-953-80170-5), London, 2000.
Academic Essays in Books
"The Poetics of Exposed, Irreparable Space in Malcolm Lowry's Lunar Caustic, or, Reading Lowry Through Agamben."
Forthcoming in Richard J. Lane and Miguel Mota, Eds., Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space (University of Ottawa Press, 2016).
"Clones & Cloning", "Cool Memories" & "Culture."
In The Baudrillard Dictionary, Richard G. Smith, ed., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, 32-33; 42-44; 44-46.
"Sacred Space and the Fellowship of Suffering in the Postmodern Sublime."
In Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory, Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo & Jens Zimmerman, eds., Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010, 363-375.
"A Preface to Sherrill Grace."
In Strange Comfort: Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry, Sherrill Grace, Vancouver: Talon, 2009, 11-15.
"Sacred Community, Sacred Culture: Authenticity & Modernity in Canadian First Nations Writing."
In Native Authenticity: Transatlantic Approaches to Native American Literature, Deborah Madsen, ed., SUNY Press, 2009, 151-165.
"Dialectical Images in Canada: Joseph Dandurand, Stan Douglas & The Conjectural Order."
In Image Technologies in Canadian Literature: Narrative, Film and Photography, Carmen Concilio and Richard J. Lane, eds., Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009, 137-149.
"Introducing the Postcolonial Novel in English: Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock."
In Black Literature Criticism: Classics and Emerging Black Writers, US, Thomson Cengage, 2008.
"Kant's 'Safe Place': Security and the Sacred in the Concept of Sublime Experience."
In Sublimer Aspects: Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology, 1715-1885. Natasha Duquette, ed. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, 51-61.
"Theorizing the Gendered Space of Auto/Biographical Performance via Samuel Beckett and Hans Bellmer."
In Theatre and AutoBiography, Jerry Wasserman and Sherrill Grace, eds., Vancouver, BC: Talon, 2006, 72-88.
"Construction without Theory: Walter Benjamin's Goethe."
In Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates, David Rudrum, ed., Palgrave, 2006, 114-123.
"Reclaiming Maps and Metaphors: Canadian First Nations and Narratives of Place."
In Beyond The Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory, Deborah Madsen, ed., London: Pluto 2003, 184-194.
"Performing History: The Reconstruction of Gender and Race in British Columbian Drama."
In Performing National Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre, Sherrill Grace and Albert-Reiner Glaap, eds., Vancouver: Talon, 2003, 265-277.
"The Fiction of Jim Crace"
In Contemporary British Fiction, Lane, Mengham & Tew, eds., Cambridge: Polity, 2003, 27-39.
"An Analysis of the Literature of the U.S. Immigrant Experience."
In Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 162, Tom Burns and Jeffrey W. Hunter, eds., Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group, 2002.
"Surviving the Residential School System: Resisting Hegemonic Canadianness in Tomson Highway's The Kiss of the Fur Queen."
In Reconfigurations: Canadian Literatures & Postcolonial Identities, M. Maufort & F. Bellarsi, eds., Peter Lang, 2002.
"Beckett and Nietzsche."
In Beckett and Philosophy, Richard J. Lane, ed., London & New York: Palgrave, 2002, 166-176.
"Fractures: The View From Home, or, Written Displacements In Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations."
In Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon, Deborah L. Madsen, ed., London & Stirling VA: Pluto Press, 1999, 45-57.
Academic Journal Essays
“Creating narrative space: new modes of navigation for online scholarly publications.”
Scholarly and Research Communication, Vol 6, No 3, 2015.
"Innovation through Tradition: New Scholarly Applications Modelled on Faith-Based Electronic Publishing and Learning Environments."
Scholarly and Research Communication, 5.4, 2014.
"Emerging Fiction."
University of Toronto Quarterly, 83.2, 2014.
"Emerging Fiction."
University of Toronto Quarterly, 82.3, 2013.
"First Fiction."
Letters in Canada 2010, University of Toronto Quarterly, 81.3, 2012.
"The First Black British Columbia Novel: Truman Green's A Credit to Your Race."
The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), XVII, 2, 2011.
"Frances Brooke and the Contested Origin of the Canadian Novel: A Narrative in Many Parts."
The Female Spectator, 13.3, Summer, 2009.
"The Hidden and the Exposed: 'One-Time Appearance' in Walter Benjamin and Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial (a reading of Section iv of 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technical Reproducibility,' Second Version)."
InterCulture, Special Issue on Walter Benjamin, 2007.
"Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007."
(Obituary) Radical Philosophy, 144, 2007.
"Performing Gender: First Nations, Feminism & Trickster Writing in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach."
Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies, 2003.
"The Modern Inventory from Object to Subject: Uncovering Aboriginal Forgotten Voices."
Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies, 2002; Theme Issue on Postcolonialism.
"Passing the Province, or, the Tyrannical Prehension: Theoretical Readings of British Columbian Theatre."
Canadian Theatre Review, 101, Winter 2000. Theme Issue: Staging the Pacific Province.
"The Last Will and Testament of Malcolm Lowry: Reading the Last Notebook."
The Malcolm Lowry Review, 2000.
"Redemption and Horror: Journeys through the Aesthetic of Enlightenment in Conrad and Lowry."
L'Epoque Conradienne, 26, 2000. Theme Issue: “Conrad et Lowry: l’ethique de la fiction.”
"Cutting Ultramarine: Some Thoughts on the Annotated edition at UBC Special Collections."
The Malcolm Lowry Review, 2000.
"Bertrand William Sinclair's Stories of the BC Coast."
BC Historical News, 32.3 (Summer), 1999.
"The Dangers of 'Dumb Talk': Eurocentric Translations of the Potlatch."
Commonwealth: Essays & Studies, 21.2, 1999.
"Border Crossings: Forgotten Native Voices in Bertrand William Sinclair's Canadian and American Popular Fiction."
Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies, Theme Issue: Forgotten Voices, 5.2, 1999.
"Pulling Strings: Robert Kroetsch's The Puppeteer."
Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 19.2, Spring 1997.
"British Columbia's War of Two Worlds: The Birth of the Modern Age in Bertrand William Sinclair's Fiction."
Journal of Commonwealth Literature, XXXI.1, 1996.
"A Preface to Lowry's Last Notebook."
Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 18.2, Spring 1996.
"Dreams of a Frontier Classic: Inverted Pyramids in the New World."
Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 17.2, Spring 1995.
"Archive Simulations: Reading the Bertrand Sinclair Collection."
BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No.97, Spring 1993.
"The Double Guide: Through the Labyrinth with Robert Kroetsch."
Journal of Commonwealth Literature, XXIX.2, 1993.
"Anti-Panoptical Narrative Structures in Two Novels by Margaret Atwood."
Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 16.1, Autumn 1993.
"Clark Blaise and the Discourse of Modernity."
Canadian Literature, 132, Spring 1992.
"Appropriating the Signifier in J.M.Coetzee's Foe."
Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 13.1, Autumn 1990.
Bibliographical Review Essays
“Canada”, covering work published in 2008, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 89, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2010, pp.1026-1047.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2007, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 88, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2009, pp.1130-1153.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2006, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 87, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2008, pp.1144-1166.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2005, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 86, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2007, pp.1024-1043.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2004, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 85, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2006, pp.1060-1078.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2003, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 84, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2005, pp.965-983.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2002, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 83, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2004, pp.980-996.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2001, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 82, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2003, pp.877-890.
“Canada”, covering work published in 2000, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 81, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2002, pp.1037-1052.
“Canada”, covering work published in 1999, The Year’s Work in English Studies: Volume 80, William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press and The English Association, 2001, pp.871-891
Online Essays
“Creating narrative space: new modes of navigation for online scholarly publications.”
Scholarly and Research Communication, 6.3, (2015) PDF
"Innovation through Tradition: New Scholarly Applications Modelled on Faith-Based Electronic Publishing and Learning Environments."
Scholarly and Research Communication, 5.4, (2014) PDF
"The First Black British Columbia Novel: Truman Green's A Credit To Your Race"
in The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (2011) PDF
"Cool Memories [on Jean Baudrillard]"
in Richard G. Smith, ed., The Baudrillard Dictionary (2010) PDF
"Dialectical Images in Canada: Joseph Dandurand, Stan Douglas & The Conjectural Order"
in Carmen Concilio & Richard J. Lane, eds., Image Technologies in Canadian Literature (2009) PDF
"A Preface To Sherrill Grace [on Malcolm Lowry & Sherrill Grace]"
in Sherrill Grace, Strange Comfort: Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry (2009) PDF
"The Conjectural Order: Metaphysics in Abeyance (meta-textual commentary)"
in Richard J. Lane, Theorizing The Conjectural Order (2009) PDF
"Kant's 'Safe Place': Security and the Sacred in the Concept of Sublime Experience"
in Natasha Duquette, ed., Sublimer Aspects: Interfaces Between Literature, Aesthetics & Theology (2007) PDF
"Theorizing the Gendered Space of Auto/Biographical Performance via Samuel Beckett and Hans Bellmer"
in Grace & Wasserman, eds., Theatre and AutoBiography (2006) PDF
"Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe"
in David Rudrum, ed., Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (2006) PDF
"Marshall McLuhan"
in Richard J. Lane, Fifty Key Literary Theorists (2006) PDF
"F.R. Leavis"
in Richard J. Lane, Fifty Key Literary Theorists (2006) PDF
"Julia Kristeva"
in Richard J. Lane, Fifty Key Literary Theorists (2006) PDF
"Sir Frank Kermode"
in Richard J. Lane, Fifty Key Literary Theorists (2006) PDF
"Donna J. Harraway"
in Richard J. Lane, Fifty Key Literary Theorists (2006) PDF
"Casting the Work of Art [on British artist Rachel Whiteread]"
in Richard J. Lane, Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through The Catastrophe (2005) PDF
"Disrupting Textual Order [on B.S. Johnson & Walter Benjamin]"
in Richard J. Lane, Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through The Catastrophe (2005) PDF
"Reclaiming Maps and Metaphors: Canadian First Nations and Narratives of Place [on Eden Robinson]"
in Deborah L. Madsen ed., Beyond the Borders: American Literature & Post-Colonial Theory (2003) PDF
"A Preface to Malcolm Lowry's Last Notebook"
in Commonwealth: Essays and Studies (1996) PDF
"The Double Guide: Through the Labyrinth with Robert Kroetsch"
in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (1993) PDF