Blank Splendour: Mere Existence in British Romanticism - Couverture rigide

Collings, David

 
9781487556044: Blank Splendour: Mere Existence in British Romanticism
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1487556047 ISBN 13 : 9781487556044
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2024

Synopsis

Certain moments in British Romantic poetry and art depict a state from which the attributes of existence - time and space, subject and object, language and visuality - have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, the condition of mere existence. As Blank Splendour demonstrates, poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Clare as well as paintings by Turner evoke a condition that transpires in a time without time, a life without life.


David Collings argues that these works invite us to move beyond the subtle remnants of ontology that linger in current versions of posthuman thought, such as affect theory and speculative realism, by opening up a domain of affect without affect, a world without objects. Anticipating the philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, these works bring into view the mode of a deconstruction that emerged before the linguistic turn, one that meditates on the blank condition underlying modernity. Ultimately, Blank Splendour reveals how these works speak to our own moment, when thought, forced to contemplate its own extinction, enters a new form of mere existence.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Collings is a professor of English at Bowdoin College.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1487556047
ISBN 13 
9781487556044
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
184
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