These poems balance the death of family members against the monologue of a women who comes to life under the coroner's knife. Afterimages is a journey of the eye, what the eye observes and what the eye cannot forget.
The new essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
What is at issue in this book is understanding relations between the geopolitical conditions of visuality and the particulars of the image.
The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze was one of the most innovative and revolutionary thinkers of the twentieth century. Author of more than twenty books on literature, music, and the visual...
Reviews and commentary of dance performances in New York City, chiefly from the New Yorker.
we could be living within Fantasima Pointe”s afterimage, and from time to time, it . . . shows through?”” ““Oh, my God,”” Jeff whispered. ““Did you ever wonder why people are reluctant to live in a house where a murder has taken place, ...
Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine as well as less well-known examples of animals and plants, these essays explore how representations of recent and ancient extinctions help advance ...
Cambridge:Cambridge UniversityPress. Originaledition 1983. Belsey,Catherine.1994a. Desire:LoveStoriesinWestern Culture. Oxford,UK and Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. ______. 1994b. 'Postmodern Love: Questioning the Metaphysics ofDesire'.
Richards explores " what it means to think the fictive thought of imperial control " ( 2 ) through a range of novels — Kipling's Kim , Stoker's Dracula , Wells's Tono - Bungay , and Childers's Riddle of the Sands . 22.
The victims---a polite woman and an angelic child---do not seem to be connected in any obvious way. Christie is short-handed, the clues don't stack up, and he's got a rookie detective, Colleen Greer, to look out for. These are his problems.
Afterimages of Modernity: Structure and Indifference in Twentieth-century Literature