Thinking through relation : encounters in creative critical writing / edited by Florian Mussgnug, Mathelinda Nabugodi and Thea Petrou.
"This book is an offering. It contains eighteen essays in honour of Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous encounter, between artists, thinkers an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2021]
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| Series: | New comparative criticism ;
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| Summary: | "This book is an offering. It contains eighteen essays in honour of Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous encounter, between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as the importance of creative interjection in the arts and humanities. They advance fresh interpretations of some important figures in twentieth-century European culture - Apollinaire, Beckett, Benjamin, Calvino, Dalí, Genet, Nooteboom, Roubaud - using modes of reading that are both intellectually brave and open to fragility, intimate as well as critical, at once playful and earnest. They bring texts and artworks into relation in order to amply demonstrate that relation itself is a form of thinking"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781789976403 1789976405 9781789976427 1789976421 9781789976410 1789976413 |
| ISSN: | 2235-1809 ; |