This study explores the complex quest for the good life in modernist literature and philosophy. While modernism is often characterized by an intense interest in, and a meticulous attention to, languag
What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice' – from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us
Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film – silent film in particular – as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature. Intere
Lombardo expands upon the intuitions of Baudelaire, proposing a new understanding of cinephilia as the interplay of the memory and the imagination of both filmmakers and spectators. Works by Scorsese,
The recent rise of 'new nature writing' has renewed the question of how a landscape can be written. This book intervenes in this debate by proposing innovative methodologies for writing place that rec
How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulan
After World War II, writers and literary critics – black and white – engaged in heated debates centred on the literary and imaginative problem of representing African-Americans in American literature.
Twentieth-century philosophy has often been pictured as divided into two camps, analytic and continental. This study challenges this depiction by examining encounters between some of the leading repre
A book-length study which examines the development of English literature in relationship to the perception and construction of national landscapes and changes in architectural form.
This book argues for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives through a variety of works ranging from cinema and literature to metapsychology and cultural theory. After presenting Freud'
Dube (film and literature, Indiana U. of Pennsylvania) examines how the colonial administrators, officers, and historians represented their task of the colonial takeover of India, and the ways in whic
This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analyzed in relation to film, arguing
The poems of James Schuyler, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara are the subject of this volume. The roots of the authors in earlier poets and in the famous city where they write are uncovered in Ward's ow
This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the
