"Focusing on Lolita but also addressing other major works (especially Speak, Memory and Pale Fire), the author asks whether the work of this writer whom many find cruel contains a moral message and, if so, why that message is so artfully concealed. Style Is Matter places Nabokov…
A critical introduction to the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A…
Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A…
A critical introduction to the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Sources and Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Art of Mismaking -- Artistic Character -- By No Definition -- Is It Difficult?, or On Riddles -- Watt? -- Word-Storming, or Logoclasm -- Hic sunt leones -- Chapter 1. …
Readers have long responded to Samuel Beckett's novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatures cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when most wounded. Hi…