'It was suddenly hard winter':John Burnside's Crossings

John Burnside’s poetry and fiction presents the reader with an awkward, uncanny sense of Being. It achieves this through forcing on the reader moments of suspension—epoché in the sense given this word by German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl—which both present and enact shifts in perception of the relationship between self and other, subject and world, memory and the past, which discomforts in its suspension of narrative time as it opens up a phenomenological apperception of Being through the multiple figure of the act of crossing—between past and present, self and other, memory and forgetfulness. In each example there is an irreversible transformation of human understanding that foregrounds the condition of Being in its materiality

Dickens's London

Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's London presents in twenty-six episodes (from Banking and Breakfast via the Insolvent Court, Melancholy and Poverty, to Todgers and Time, Voice and Waking) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both

Introduction: dwelling on Hardy

Introduction: dwelling on Hard

Introduction: transgressions or, beyond the obvious

Introduction: transgressions or, beyond the obviou

Introduction: Jacques Derrida - ‘un résau de traces’

Introduction: Jacques Derrida - ‘un résau de traces

The hieroglyphic other: The Beetle, London and the anxieties of late Imperial England

The hieroglyphic other: The Beetle, London and the anxieties of late Imperial Englan

The old story, with a difference: Pickwick's vision

(print) ix, 122 p. ; 23 cm1. History's difference p. 17 -- 2. Vision's difference p. 42 -- 3. Illuminating difference p. 65 -- Afterword : the old story ... with a difference p. 90Item embargoed for five year

Introduction: Dwelling on Hardy

Introduction: dwelling on Hard

The Hieroglyphic Other: The Beetle, London and the Anxieties of Late Imperial England

The hieroglyphic other: The Beetle, London and the anxieties of late Imperial Englan

Listening to the Environment: Alice Oswald’s D(eco)nstruction

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