Nilling: Prose (Department of Critical Thought)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1897388896 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Well-designed and written book Lisa Robertson really gets it here, her writing about writing, writing about thinking. It's beautiful. I felt like I was inside of her brain when I read this book. There are even some essays that have website links so that you can listen to soundscapes while you read them. This made the reading feel even more immersive and beautiful.The book arrived to me in perfect condition. The cover is a lovely texture -- heavy, matte, almost like watecolour paper. The inner pages themselves also have a great texture to them. This book really feels like it was . Erin L. Martin said including things like what it means to be a reader and have. This book is blowing my mind and making me rethink and question many topics, including things like what it means to be a reader and have a reading experience.
. University of California Press published Rousseau's Boat in Spring 2010. Her most recent book is the essay collection NILLING: PROSE from BookThug. Lisa Robertson's books of poetry include XECLOGUE, DEBBIE: AN EPIC (nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1998), THE WEATHER (winner of the Relit Award for Poetry in 2002), THE MEN and LISA RO
And then the strictures of the text assert again themselves. Just beneath the surface of the phonemes, a gendered name rhythmically explodes into a founding variousness. Syllables might call to gods who do and don't exist. I want to claim for this inconspicuousness a transformational agency that runs counter to the teleology of readerly intention. NILLING: PROSE is a sequence of five loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading.I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt's idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Literary Nonfiction. Overwhelmingly in my submission to reading's supple snare, I feel love.. That is, they appear in the text's absences and densities as a motile graphic and phonemic force that abnegates its own necess
Her most recent book is the essay collection NILLING: PROSE from BookThug. University of California Press published Rousseau's Boat in Spring 2010. . Lisa Robertson lives in the Vienne region of France. About the Author Lisa Robertson's books of poetry include XECLOGUE, DEBBIE: AN EPIC (nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1998), THE WEATHER (winner of the Relit Award for Poetry in 2002), THE MEN and LISA ROBERTSON'S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP