CHRISTOPHE DEN TANDT

Christophe DEN TANDT

Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres

tel 02 650 3816(02 534 11 32), fax 02 650 3824,

Campus du Solbosch

ULB CP175, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles


Présentation des enseignements

1. GERM-B-205 : Histoire de la poésie anglaise du Moyen Age jusqu’au 17e siècle.
2. GERM-B-315 : Analyse de textes littéraires de langue anglaise : poésie et roman moderniste ; roman postmoderne ; roman réaliste et naturaliste.
3. GERM-B-425 : Littérature et civilisation des Etats-Unis d’Amérique : culture et littérature depuis le début de la colonisation jusqu’à la « Renaissance Américaine » ; Le roman afro-américain (1850-1950).
4. LANG-B-500 : Séminaire de théorie de la littérature et de cultural studies : Culture et idéologie dans le champ théorique du néo-marxisme, du post-structuralisme et du postmodernisme.


Présentation des thèmes de recherche

1. Réalisme, naturalisme et représentation de l’environnement urbain (métropole, mégalopole, espace postmétropolitain): Etude de la représentation de l’espace urbain dans différents médias : littérature, cinéma, vidéos musicales.

2.Réalisme et postmodernité : Etude interdisciplinaire des fondements théoriques de l’esthétique réaliste contemporaine. Ces recherches s’appuient sur un corpus littéraire, cinématographique et télévisuel. Elles impliquent une relecture critique de la théorie poststructuraliste et postmoderniste.

3. Esthétique et sociologie de la musique rock. Ces recherches se focalisent sur deux aspects de la musique rock des années 1950 jusqu’au présent : d’une part l’interaction des textes par rapport à la musique ; d’autre part la redéfinition du profil des musiciens sous l’influence des changements technologiques (numérisation, computérisation des pratiques musicales.)




Centre(s) de recherche

Centre d'études nord-américaines (Canada - Etats-Unis - Mexique)
Musique, Cinéma et Arts de la scène
Etudes Littéraires, Philologiques et Textuelles


Dernière(s) publication(s)

Den Tandt, Christophe (2011). A New Local Color? Mapping the Strategies of Realism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. In Marc Maufort & Caroline De Wagter (Eds.), The Old Margins and New Centers of the European Literary Heritage (pp. 201-13).

Den Tandt, Christophe (2011). Refashioning American Literary Naturalism : Critical Trends at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. In Keith Newlin (Ed.), Refashioning American Literary Naturalism (pp. 404-23). Oxfard: Oxford UP: The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2011). Dialogical Realism in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction, Television, and Film. In Marta Conejero (Ed.), Con/Texts of Persuasion (pp. 110-125). Reichenberger.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2010). Invoking the Abyss: The Ideologies of the Postmodern Sublime. Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 73(3), 803-821.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2010). Klassieke film noir belicht: Interview met Christophe Den Tandt. Cinemagie mediafilm, 49(273), 96-103.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2009). Graphic Evidence: The Referential Value of Photographs in Crime Fiction and Film. In Kim Gorus, Patrick Lennon, & Noël Reumkens (Eds.), Literature and the Pictorial Arts in the 20th Century (pp. 35-52). Brxuelles: Word and Image.

Den Tandt, Christophe, & Tabah, Mireille (2007). Altérités: nouvelles approches de la culture, de la représentation et de la différence. Bruxelles: Degrés.

Den Tandt, Christophe, & Tabah, Mireille (2007). La culture de l’Autre/ l’Autre dans la culture : Approches théoriques de l’altérité. In Christophe Den Tandt & Mireille Tabah (Eds.), Altérités: nouvelles approches de la culture, de la représentation et de la différence (pp. 31-32). Bruxelles.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2007). Une avant-garde populaire?: Musique rock, postmodernisme et culture de masse. In Christophe Den Tandt & Mireille Tabah (Eds.), Altérités: nouvelles approches de la culture, de la représentation et de la différence (pp. 23-24). Bruxelles.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2006). Dancing in the Virtual Streets: Urban Space in Music Videos, from Neighborhood to Technopolis. Storytelling, 5(3), 199-212.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2006). The Realist Underground: Referential Practices at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. BELL - Belgian journal of english language and literatures, 4, 67-81.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2005). Reading Without Maps? Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age: A Tribute to Gilbert Debusscher. Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter Lang.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2005). Return to Mimesis? Eric Auerbach and Georg Lukács in the Wake of Postmodernity. In Klaus Stierstorfer (Ed.), Return to Postmodernism: Theory, Travel Writing, Autobiography (pp. 61-78). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2005). Pluralism and Cultural Memory. In Christophe Den Tandt (Ed.), Reading Without Maps? Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age: A Tribute to Gilbert Debusscher (pp. 17-32). Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter Lang.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2005). American Literary Naturalism. In Robert Paul Lamb & G. R. Thompson (Eds.), A Companion to American Fiction 1865-1914 (pp. 96-118). Wiley-Blackwel.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2005). Men at Work: Musical Craftsmanship, Gender, and Cultural Capital in the Classic Rock Canon. In Christophe Den Tandt (Ed.), Reading Without Maps? Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age: A Tribute to Gilbert Debusscher (pp. 379-400). Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter Lang.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2004). Teaching Postmodernism in a Non-Postmodern Context. In Laurenz Volkmann & Klaus Stierstorfer (Eds.), Teaching Postmodernism / Postmodern Teaching (pp. 169-180). Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2004). Brussels’s Manhattan Project: The International Style and the Americanization of European Urban Space. In Véonique Béghain & Marc Chénetier (Eds.), The Cultural Shuttle: The United States in/ of Europe (pp. 109-120). Amsterdam: VU Press.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2004). From Craft to Corporate Interfacing: Rock Musicianship in the Age of Music Television and Computer Instruments. Popular music and society, 27(2), 139-160.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2004). The Realist Underground: Tactical Blueprint for Contemporary Referential Practices. The borders of realism in 20th century narrative literature (pp. 417-428).

Den Tandt, Christophe (2003). Beyond the Postmodern Moment. In Jean Pierre van Noppen, Ian Tudor, & Christophe Den Tandt (Eds.), Beyond: New Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching (pp. 85-90). Gand: Academia Press.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2003). Pragmatic Commitments: Postmodern Realism in Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kinsgton and James Ellroy. In Klaus Stierstorfer (Ed.), Beyond Postmodernism: Reassessments in Literature, Theory, and Culture (pp. 121-142). Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2003). Staccato, Swivel and Glide: A Poetics of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll Lyrics. In Michel Delville & Christine Pagnoulle (Eds.), Sound as Sense: Contemporary US poetry &/in Music (pp. 79-92). Bruxelles-Bern-Berlin-New York: P.I.E.-Peter Lang.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2002). Cybercolonialism? The Foreign Politics of Postmodern Science Fiction. BELL - Belgian journal of english language and literatures, 31-43.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2001). Writing, Iconicity, Indexicality and Postmodern Realism in Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog. Shakespeare, Film and TV Workshop at the “Seeing Things”.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2001). Nineteen-Fifties Rock ‘n’ Roll Lyrics: A Poetics of Semi-Articulation. Soundscapes: an Hypertext Magazine.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2001). Cultural Studies and the Realist Paradigm. In Bart Keunen & Bart Eeckhout (Eds.), Literature and Society: The Function of Literary Sociology in Comparative Literature (pp. 113-131). Bruxelles: Peter Lang.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2001). Hollywood Courtroom Dramas: The Politics of Judicial Realism. In Helle Porsdam (Ed.), Folkways and Law Ways: Law in American Studies (pp. 183-204). Odense: Odense University Press.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2000). Postmodern Victorianism: Contemporary Representations of the Pre-Modernist Century. In Irène Heidelberger & Mireille Tabah (Eds.), Wahlverwandschaften in Sprache, Malerei, Literatur, Geschichte; Festschrift für Monique Boussart (pp. 291-303). Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1999). Postmodern Realism: Is There Room for Referential Cultural Practices in a Postmodern Context? BELL - Belgian journal of english language and literatures, 41-53.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1999). Down these (Gender Divided and Ethnically Fractured) Mean Streets: The Urban Thriller in the Age of Multiculturalism. In Dirk De Meyer, Dirk De Meyer, Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, & Bart Keunen (Eds.), The Urban Condition: Space, Community and Self in the Urban Metropolis (pp. 392-406). Rotterdam: 010 Publishers.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1999). Dylan Goes Electric: Inventing a Lyrical Idiom for the Postmodern Distraction Factory. In Michel Delville & Christine Pagnoulle (Eds.), The Mechanics of the Mirage (pp. 213-226). Liège: L3.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1998, June). James Ellroy. Post-war Literatures in English: Lexicon of Contemporary Authors (pp. 1-13). Brill.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1998). The Reconstruction of Local Urban Space in Postmodern American Film. Idioma (Bruxelles), 10, 5-24.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1998). Ernest Poole’s The Harbor: Naturalism, Socialism and the Whitmanian Tradition. BELL - Belgian journal of english language and literatures, 51-62.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1998). Management and Chaos: Masculinity and the Corporate World from Naturalism to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon notes, 42-43, 73-90.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1998). Multiculturalist Thrillers: Minority Detective Fiction and the Chandlerian Legacy. In Geert Lernout & Marc Maufort (Eds.), Interpreting Minority: A Comparative Approach (pp. 111-135).

Den Tandt, Christophe (1998). The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism. Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1997, September). William Gibson. Post-war Literatures in English: Lexicon of Contemporary Authors (pp. 1-15). Brill.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1997). Vitalism and Control: Frank Norris's and Jack London's Urban Sociology. In Marc Maufort & Jean Pierre van Noppen (Eds.), Voices of Power (pp. 191-202). Liège: L3.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1997). Oceanic Discourse, Empowerment and Social Accommodation in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. In Marc Maufort (Ed.), Union in Partition: Essays in Honor of Jeanne Delbaere (pp. 71-80). Liège: L3.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1997). McLuhan, Pynchon, Gibson: The Informational Metropolis from the Global Village to Cyberspace. In Rob Kroes & Cristina Giorcelli (Eds.), Living With America, 1946-1996 (pp. 103-112). Amsterdam: VU Press.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1997). The Urban Sublime: the example of American Literary Naturalism. AEDEAN Proceedings.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1996). Amazons and Androgynes: Overcivilization and the Redefinition of Gender Roles at the Turn of the Century. American literary history, 8(3), 639-664.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1993). Abjection and Oratory in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: the Contradictions of Political Discourse in American Literary Naturalism. BELL. Belgian essays on language and literature, 15-34.

Den Tandt, Christophe (1991). Animistic Economics in Dreiser's Sister Carrie. BELL. Belgian essays on language and literature, 88-99.

Den Tandt, Christophe (2009, June). “From “Web of Life” to Necropolis: An Ecocritical Perspective on Urban Vitalism in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Poetry. Comparative American studies, 7(2), 98-110.

van Noppen, Jean Pierre, Den Tandt, Christophe, & Tudor, Ian (2003). Beyond:: New Perspectives in Language, Literature and ELT. Ghent (B): Academia Press.


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