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Thinking Through Relation - Encounters in Creative Critical Writing (Paperback, New edition)
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Thinking Through Relation - Encounters in Creative Critical Writing (Paperback, New edition)
Series: New Comparative Criticism, 11
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"Thinking Through Relation brings together an outstanding
collection of essays that explore the diverse ways in which works
of art and aesthetic experience generate a richness of relation
which escapes the straightjackets of rigid disciplinary and
institutional boundaries. Clearly demonstrating the creative
potential of critical writing, these essays are a fitting tribute
to the creativity, originality and subtlety of Timothy Mathews's
scholarly accomplishment and his contribution to our understanding
of art and of the aesthetic relation." (Dr Ian James, University of
Cambridge) "This book in honour of Timothy Mathews is much more
than a Festschrift. It is a collection of thought-provoking, daring
insights into the crucial place of literature and the arts in our
world and in our being human. It is an exhilarating multifarious
demonstration of how creativity can undo, without for a moment
losing intellectual rigour, the disciplinary and academic
structures that constrain our thinking. Driven by curiosity and by
care - love, even - the many contributions to the volume show, in
their different ways, how criticism can be at its most effective by
being at its most imaginative and its least predictable."
(Professor Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths, University of London) This
book is an offering. It contains eighteen essays in honour of
Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of
French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative
Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous
encounter between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as
the importance of creative interjection in the arts and humanities.
They advance fresh interpretations of some important figures in
twentieth-century European culture - Apollinaire, Beckett,
Benjamin, Calvino, Dali, Genet, Nooteboom, Roubaud - using modes of
reading that are both intellectually brave and open to fragility,
intimate as well as critical, at once playful and earnest. They
bring texts and artworks into relation in order to amply
demonstrate that relation itself is a form of thinking.
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