Peter Schwenger (130 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First British Edition. International overview of "masculine" styles of writing in the 20th century, an age when, according to Virginia Woolf, "virility became self-conscious." In 172 pages with Index & Notes. The First British Edition, First Printing, from 1984, this book has been on our shelves since purchased Brand New! Condition is Fine/Fine: with navy blue cloth-covered boards, the hardcover book is completely clean, binding strong, pages creamy white & unmarked. The DJ is equally flawless, protected in mylar cover since new. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Mental image, dream, fantasy, hallucination-all these are comprised in the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasm. Perhaps only such a multifarious concept is adequate to the range of visual elements involved in the experience of reading fiction, or of writing it. Soon after the birth of the novel, doctors expressed concern that readers might be possessed by what they were reading, haunted by textual fantasms. Contemporary writers like John Gardner, Maurice Blanchot, and John Banville figure this possession as a kind of textual dreaming: fiction, like dream, draws from a fantasmal unconscious. For the reader's images to become conscious, however, they must be cued by a material text through framing strategies and evocative gaps. This book analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works-such as Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew, and Rimbaud's "The Vowels"-that treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Although the specific images of individual readers cannot be predicted, one can speculate on the modes of these images: are they focused or fogged, schematic or emotive, fleeting or enduring? These are questions not only for theorists but for artists who make textual visualization visible. Drawing on artists' books, marginal drawings by authors, and films such as Prospero's Books, Fantasm and Fiction illuminates the process of textual visualization. The author develops, in addition, "A Politics of Visualization" through analyses of the photographs of David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman's film Blue, and Nicole Brossard's novel Picture Theory. In this richly suggestive study, the fantasm emerges as a crucial aspect not only of reading but of any kind of envisioning.…

Hardcover. 172p., introduction, afterword, notes, index, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj.

1st edition. 8vo. [ix] + 172pp. Original fuschia d/w. lettered in grey and pink, some minor wear to edges. ISBN 0710201648 US$7.

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, from the collection of John S. Wright, University of Minnesota professor and founder of its African-American Studies department, with his ownership inscription, else free of markings. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards also very good; titling remains bright and bold. Age-toning to jacket spine, top edge of front, and bottom edge of rear. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. We surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects-such as one's own body-situate and define us; yet at the same time they are fundamentally indifferent to us. The melancholy of this rift is a rich source of inspiration for artists. Peter Schwenger deftly weaves together philosophical and psychoanalytical theory with artistic practice. Concerned in part with the act of collecting, The Tears of Things is itself a collection of exemplary art objects-literary and cultural attempts to control and possess things-including paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe and René Magritte; sculpture by Louise Bourgeois and Marcel Duchamp; Joseph Cornell's boxes; Edward Gorey's graphic art; fiction by Virginia Woolf, Georges Perec, and Louise Erdrich; the hallucinatory encyclopedias of Jorge Luis Borges and Luigi Serafini; and the corpse photographs of Joel Peter Witkin. However, these representations of objects perpetually fall short of our aspirations. Schwenger examines what is left over-debris and waste-and asks what art can make of these. What emerges is not an art that reassembles but one that questions what it means to assemble in the first place. Contained in this catalog of waste is that ultimate still life, the cadaver, where the subject-object dichotomy receives its final ironic reconciliation. Peter Schwenger is professor of English at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning, Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word, and Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Concerned in part with the act of collecting, The Tears of Things is itself a collection of exemplary art objects- literary and cultural attempts to control and possess things. However, these representations of objects perpetually fall short of our aspirations. Schwenger examines what is left over-debris and waste-and asks what art can make of these. Concerned in part with the act of collecting, this work is a collection of exemplary art objects. It reveals the object as the self's ultimate other. The author weaves together philosophical and psychoanalytical theory with artistic practice. He examines what is left over - debris and waste - and asks what art can make of these. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 5.875 X 0.5 X 9 inches; 200 pages.

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Condition: New. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276. . 2012. Paperback. . . . .

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 200 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.