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Shame and modern writing
No full textShame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and shorter practice-based reflections from poets and clinical writers. It serves as a timely reflection of shame as presented in modern writing, giving added attention to engagements on race, gender, and the question of new media representation
Dr Fanon on colonial narcissism and anti-colonial melancholia
No full textThis chapter provides an outline of Fanon’s involvement in the most progressive strand of French psychiatry that became known as ‘psychothérapie institutionnelle’, as well as of his clinical response to the colonial context at the Bilda-Joinville hospital in Algeria, in order to demonstrate the strong continuities between his psychiatric practice on the one hand, and his critical writings and political activism on the other. This brief portrait of ‘Dr Fanon’ paves the way for a discussion of the impact of the Freudian concepts of narcissism and melancholia on his two best known works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. I argue that through his critical (re)deployments of narcissism and melancholia, Dr Fanon controversially comes to prescribe revolutionary violence and the creation of a new militant national community as a means of ‘treatment’ for subjective yet always also social ailments
Wartime Attachments: essays on pain, care, retreat and treatment in the period of the First World War (electronic resource)
No full textBarry Moser interview, 2023 February 24
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his literary influences, fame, privacy, setting type, shifting perspectives, and various projects including Billy Budd, Sailor; Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus; The Death of the Narcissus: Eleven Botanico-erotic Etchings; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 February 24
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his literary influences, fame, privacy, setting type, shifting perspectives, and various projects including Billy Budd, Sailor; Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus; The Death of the Narcissus: Eleven Botanico-erotic Etchings; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 January 18
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his education, identity as a Southerner, racism of the American South, printing process, publishing industry, and various projects including The Transmogrification of Narcissus, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
Barry Moser interview, 2023 January 18
No full textOral history interview documenting the life of artist, author, and book designer, Barry Moser, in which Moser describes his education, identity as a Southerner, racism of the American South, printing process, publishing industry, and various projects including The Transmogrification of Narcissus, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, and the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of The Holy Bible: Containing all the Books of the Old and New Testaments
W.B. Yeats and World Literature: the subject of poetry
No full textArguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary production and the intensities of poetic practice. Yeats’s appropriation of Japanese Noh theatre, his promotion of translations of Rabindranath Tagore and Shri Purohit Swãmi, and his repeated ventures into American culture signalled his commitment to moving beyond Europe for his literary reference points. Sheils suggests that a reexamination of the transnational character of Yeats's work provides an opportunity to reflect critically on the cosmopolitan assumptions of world literature, as well as on the politics of modernist translation. Through a series of close and contextual readings, the book demonstrates how continuing global debates around the crises of economic liberalism and democracy, fanaticism, asymmetric violence, and bioethics were reflected in the poet's formal and linguistic concerns. Challenging orthodox readings of Yeats as a late-romantic nationalist, W.B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry makes a compelling case for reading Yeats’s work in the context of its global modernity
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