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This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel
its hand upon my shoulder. -Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I
found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page
into the fertile fields of my own imagination. -Val McDermid About
the book 10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and
its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers,
politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections
over two centuries across the globe.
A reflective look at the Great War of 1914-1918 through modern
poetry and verse.
A contemporary collection of poetry covering all aspects of the
life and conditions of men from all sides who fought in the Great
War of 1914-1918.
Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, and Laca who claimed her as almost his other self, Duras is revealed to be a profoundly transgressive thinker and artist. It will be a must for all concerned with contemporary writing, writing by women, recent European cinema, film and literature.
Maurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a literary critic. His
texts on Kafka, Mallarme, Beckett and others make him one of the
most influential critics of twentieth century literature. But he is
equally influential as an incisive reader of philosophy through his
enigmatic interpretations of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault
and Derrida.
Leslie Hill offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to one
of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. He
shows how Blanchot questions the very essence of philosophy and
literature, and stresses the importance of his political writings
and the relationship between writing and history that characterized
his later work.
Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill introduces clearly and accessibly the key themes in his work. He shows how Blanchot questions the very existence of philosophy and literature and how we may distinguish between them, stresses the importance of his political writings and the relationship between writing and history that characterised Blanchot's later work; and considers the relationship between Blanchot and key figures such as Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille and how this impacted on his work. Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Blanchot also sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War. This accessible introduction to Blanchot's thought also includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of his writings of the last twenty years.
Marguerite Duras: Apocalytic Desires offers a complete account in
English of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most
controversial contemporary woman writer. It considers all aspects
of Duras' work, ranging from her early novels of the 1950s, to her
radically experimental films of the 1970s and her best-selling
novel of the 1980s, The Lover. It contains an extensive listing of
all Duras' work, including her journalism, interviews, and
television and radio appearances. Leslie Hill's analysis throws
light on Duras' relations with feminism, psychoanalysis and
sexuality, in her literature, films and politics. Those interested
in modern literature or European cinema should find this text of
interest; it offers an insight into the work of a major
contemporary writer.
Devising Theatre and Performance is a hands-on guide for artists,
students and teachers of performance at any stage of their
practice. It offers a wide range of creative prompts and pathways
enriched with critical thinking tools and questions, a hybrid
approach Hill and Paris call 'Curious Methods'. This is a welcome
addition to the field, created and curated by two experienced
artists who have operated at the international interface of
academia and professional practice for over three decades. The
collection is packed with fun, creative, thoughtful exercises
distilled from over twenty years of running interdisciplinary
artist workshops and teaching both devising and performance making.
As well providing numerous exercises and suggestions for devising,
composing and editing original works, this book offers tools for
giving and receiving feedback, critical reflection and framing
artistic work within academic research contexts. Readers can choose
to dip in and out, to follow the book as a course or to work
section by section, focusing on organizing principles such as
working from the body, working with site, working with objects or
performance activism. The book includes a detailed production
workbook and a practice-based research workbook you can tailor to
your own projects. The 'Curious Methods' approach encourages users
to take the time and space their practice deserves while offering
tools, nourishment and encouragement and inviting them to take
risks beyond their comfort zones. The exercises are carefully
described so that they can easily be tested out by readers, and are
well contextualized in relation to vivid examples from contemporary
performance practice and relevant political contexts. This
compelling approach goes beyond many other books on theatre
devising, which merely provide performance recipes; they do so by
repeatedly highlighting the vital cultural relevance and potential
personal impact of the experiments that they invite us to
undertake. The primary audience for this important new book will be
academics, instructors and students in courses on devised theatre,
improvisation, performance art, experimental performance and
practice-based research. It will be essential for classroom use,
for students of theatre and performance and live art -
undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D., teachers and all those
needing strategies for getting started. It will also appeal to
readers from the broader arts, humanities and social sciences who
are seeking resources for integrating creative methods into their
research.
Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, Leslie Hill
provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism
in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's
House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement. Hill's
approachable overview explores some of the pivotal ways in which
theatre makers both engaged with and influenced feminist discourse
on topics such as sexual agency, reproductive rights, marriage
equality, financial independence and suffrage. Clear and concise,
this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate
students of Theatre and Performance Studies taking courses on Women
in Theatre and Performance, Staging Feminism, Early Feminist
Theatre, Theatre and Suffrage, Gender and Theatre, Political
Theatre and Performance Historiography. This text will also appeal
to scholars, lecturers, and Literature students.
While thirty-eight year-old Sara Gorman and her two older sisters
are sitting on the roof of their mother's old house and celebrating
the life of the woman who can no longer recognize them due to
debilitating Alzheimer's disease, Sara is suddenly overwhelmed by
the shocking realization of thankfulness toward her mother's
illness. As the realization sends her into a reflection of her life
and childhood, readers are taken on an emotional journey of
maternal neglect, artistic, success, and deep betrayal. Through
personal tragedies, strained emotional relationships, and a battle
with a devasting disease, this amazing story by Leslie Hills takes
us all down the long road of forgiveness that takes us from here to
there. This is a touching generational saga of one family's journey
through love, betrayal, and redemption. A wonderful blend of humor,
sadness, and heartwarming sentiment, this endearing novel will
leave a lasting impression on all who read it. A captivating read
for women of all ages, the novel paints a lovely picture of a
lifetime of family drama and deceit being overcome by truth and
love. Touching sentiment and a unique tone make this a must read
for women everywhere. Unique in its quirkiness, the book tackles
the tough subjects of Alzheimer's disease, neglect, deceit, and
betrayal with a heartwarming humor over a profound sadness. Filled
with fleshed-out characters with very real flaws and problems, the
novel offers a complete look at a dysfunctional family coming apart
at the seams while slowly learning to come back together.
Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most
distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern
literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be
its literary, philosophical, and political significance? Few
writers have explored these questions with such probing radicality
and rigorous tenacity as the French writer and thinker Maurice
Blanchot.
For the first time in any language, this book explores in detail
Blanchot's own writing in fragments in order to understand the
stakes of the fragmentary within philosophical and literary
modernity. It attends in detail to each of Blanchot's fragmentary
works "(Awaiting Forgetting, The Step Not Beyond," and" The Writing
of the Disaster") and reconstructs Blanchot's radical critical
engagement with the philosophical and literary tradition, in
particular with Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Heraclitus, Levinas,
Derrida, Nancy, Mallarme, Char, and others, and assesses Blanchot's
account of politics, Jewish thought, and the Shoah, with a view to
understanding the stakes of fragmentary writing in Blanchot and
within philosophical and literary modernity in general.
Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most
distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern
literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be
its literary, philosophical, and political significance? Few
writers have explored these questions with such probing radicality
and rigorous tenacity as the French writer and thinker Maurice
Blanchot.
For the first time in any language, this book explores in detail
Blanchot's own writing in fragments in order to understand the
stakes of the fragmentary within philosophical and literary
modernity. It attends in detail to each of Blanchot's fragmentary
works "(Awaiting Forgetting, The Step Not Beyond," and" The Writing
of the Disaster") and reconstructs Blanchot's radical critical
engagement with the philosophical and literary tradition, in
particular with Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Heraclitus, Levinas,
Derrida, Nancy, Mallarme, Char, and others, and assesses Blanchot's
account of politics, Jewish thought, and the Shoah, with a view to
understanding the stakes of fragmentary writing in Blanchot and
within philosophical and literary modernity in general.
Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, Leslie Hill
provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism
in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's
House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement. Hill's
approachable overview explores some of the pivotal ways in which
theatre makers both engaged with and influenced feminist discourse
on topics such as sexual agency, reproductive rights, marriage
equality, financial independence and suffrage. Clear and concise,
this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate
students of Theatre and Performance Studies taking courses on Women
in Theatre and Performance, Staging Feminism, Early Feminist
Theatre, Theatre and Suffrage, Gender and Theatre, Political
Theatre and Performance Historiography. This text will also appeal
to scholars, lecturers, and Literature students.
The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and
abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the
1980s, faced with the imminent collapse of communism and the
unchecked supremacy of free-market capitalism, the philosopher
Jean-Luc Nancy (in The Inoperative Community) and the writer
Maurice Blanchot (in The Unavowable Community) both thought it
essential to rethink the fundamental basis of "community" as such.
More recently, Nancy has renewed the debate by unexpectedly
attacking Blanchot's account of community, claiming that it
embodies a dangerously nostalgic desire for mythic and religious
communion. This book examines the history and implications of this
controversy. It analyses in forensic detail Nancy's and Blanchot's
contrasting interpretations of German Romanticism, and the work of
Heidegger, Bataille, and Marguerite Duras, and examines closely
their divergent approaches to the contradictory legacy of
Christianity. At a time when politics are increasingly inseparable
from a deep-seated sense of crisis, it provides an incisive account
of what, in the concept of community, is thought yet crucially
still remains unthought.
This short history tells the story of five hundred years of
papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper
and printing in Britain, through the major developments of the
Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have
made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present
day.
In his newest book, "Radical Indecision," esteemed scholar
Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a literary
critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary work or
the values embodied in it, decisions in turn based on some
inherited or established values, what happens when that piece of
literature fails to subscribe to the established values? Put
another way, how should literary criticism respond to the paradox
that in order to make critical judgments of literary works, it is
first necessary to suspend judgment and to consider the
impossibility of making a final decision? Hill pursues these ideas
in the works of leading French critics Roland Barthes, Maurice
Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida, discussing writers such as Sade,
Mallarme, Proust, Artaud, Genet, Celan, and Duras.
Hill concludes that, despite their differences, Barthes,
Blanchot, and Derrida share a conviction that criticism cannot take
place without exposure to that resistance to decision that is
inseparable from reading and that they address diversely as the
"neuter" or the "undecidable." "Radical Indecision"offers the first
sustained exploration of the "undecidable." This comprehensive book
breathes new life into the discipline of literary theory and will
be essential reading for students and scholars alike.
""Radical Indecision"offers vivid and compelling original
readings of Barthes, Blanchot, and Derrida. Leslie Hill provides
much more than another guide to three major theoreticians. He makes
concrete sense of Derrida's concept of the undecidable and of a
'justice to come' in the field of literary studies. This
outstanding book is the work of a seasoned commentator who has
gained international visibility through his canonical books on
Beckett and Blanchot, who is a major player in the fields of
deconstruction and literary phenomenology." --Jean-Michel Rabate,
University of Pennsylvania
"Leslie Hill confronts us once again here with the event of
literature, so abrupt and unmistakable that it leaves us completely
at a loss as to what it is we have yet to encounter. Only a scholar
as learned and exacting as Hill could remind us so well of this
devastating experience of indecision, and of its baffling demand."
--Ann Smock, University of California, Berkeley
"Leslie Hill argues for a response to writing that does justice
to its singularity and otherness, and his superb readings of
Barthes, Blanchot, and Derrida exemplify just such a response. The
understanding of literature that emerges from his meticulous
accounts of these writers in their intellectual contexts is one
that grants it importance precisely because it cannot be evaluated
according to existing norms. The literary work both invokes the
laws according to which it must be read and suspends those laws in
an opening toward the future; Hill's 'indecisive' readings trace
both the operation and the suspension of the laws of literature and
literary criticism in wonderfully detailed engagements with his
three subjects." --Derek Attridge, University of York
This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from
Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Drawing on contemporary
literary theory, the book rejects the idea that Beckett is an
author committed to expressing a particular view of the world.
Instead, Beckett's fiction writing is examined in terms of its
struggle with the perplexities and uncertainties of difference and
identity. Beckett's literary bilingualism, his experiments with
literary form, his treatment of sexuality and the body are seen as
part of an exploration of the process by which the differences and
distinctions which sustain the meaning of words are liable at any
moment to collapse into indifference and indeterminacy. Dealing
with questions of modernism, translation, fiction, genealogy,
names, experimentation and fragmentation in relation to Beckett's
writing, Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words undertakes a major
reassessment of the aims and methods of Beckett's novels and prose
fiction.
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