Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- From, Event -- Philosophy's Dice -- Disciplinary Action -- Historiography and Event -- Traumatic Event -- Politics, Ethics and the Event -- Literature…
If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works a…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Zoë Wicomb's Translocal: Troubling the Politics of Location -- 3 The Urge to Nowhere: Wicomb and Cosmopolitanism -- 4 'No Escape from Home': H…
This text provides extensive evidence of the importance of close attention to the moving and sounding of language in the poems we take pleasure in. It investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium to write verse that continu…
This text provides extensive evidence of the importance of close attention to the moving and sounding of language in the poems we take pleasure in. It investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium to write verse that continu…
"The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey powerful emotions and vivid images from this entire period. This book investigate…
This text provides extensive evidence of the importance of close attention to the moving and sounding of language in the poems we take pleasure in. It investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium to write verse that continu…
