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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life
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ISBN: 1950192644 1950192636 Year: 2020 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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"In July 1905, in Paris, a young Anglo-French woman called Marie Wheeler became the bride of a Swiss emigre, Johannes Schad. Immediately after the wedding, Marie and Johannes moved to London. And there they lived for nineteen years. In 1924, however, something happened to change their lives, and Marie, in many respects, simply disappeared. Paris Bride is an exploration of the lost life of Marie Schad, of whom little is known beyond a few legal papers, a number of letters, some photographs, the diaries of a friend, and her obituary. With so little else known of Marie's life, this book seeks to read her back into existence by drawing on a host of contemporaneous texts -- largely modernist texts, by Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, the Paris Surrealists, Stephane Mallarme, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, and Walter Benjamin. All of the selected authors are connected with Marie through some coincidence of time, place, or theme. In an attempt to do justice to Marie's in-visibility, or to her un-life, Paris Bride takes as its guide Wilde's declaration that “the true function of criticism is to see the object as in itself it really is not.” In other words, this book seeks to evade the positivist or realist assumptions of conventional literary criticism, and instead pursue a post-critical method with its sources and texts. Paris Bride is not confined to academic discourse but instead draws on a range of literary genres and devices that are more in sympathy with the non-realist character of modernism itself -- devices such as fragmentation, flânerie, textual collage, stream of consciousness, imagism, perspectivism, dream-text, the absurd, etc. Ultimately, Paris Bride is a modernistic experiment in life-writing."


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The late Walter Benjamin
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ISBN: 1280577894 9786613607645 1441148612 9781441148612 9781441131584 1441131582 9781441171702 144117768X 1441171703 Year: 2012 Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum,

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A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis. Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the earl


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Arthur Hugh Clough
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ISBN: 0746312520 0746311664 Year: 2005 Publisher: Writers and their Work

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Writing the bodies of Christ:the church from Carlyle to Derrida
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ISBN: 0754605388 Year: 2001 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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Dickens refigured: bodies, desires and other histories
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ISBN: 071904247X 0719042461 Year: 1996 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

Life, after, theory
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ISBN: 082646565X 0826473172 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Continuum


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Derrida | Benjamin : two plays for the stage
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ISBN: 3030498077 3030498069 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or Benjamin Cue Derrida| Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways – above all, in the way that the central philosophical figure is displaced, or not quite where or when we would expect to find them. In Derrida’s case, it is Oxford in 1968; in Benjamin’s case, it is somewhere (or nowhere) near London in 1948. These, then, are plays in which the philosopher is exiled, or elsewhere – not quite himself. This a volume for anyone with an eye or ear for where theatre or performance meets philosophy – students, scholars, readers, actors.

A Laodicean or The castle of the De Stancys
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ISBN: 9780140435061 Year: 1997 Publisher: London ; New York : Penguin Books,

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Derrida | Benjamin : Two Plays for the Stage
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ISBN: 9783030498078 9783030498085 9783030498092 9783030498061 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or Benjamin Cue Derrida| Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways - above all, in the way that the central philosophical figure is displaced, or not quite where or when we would expect to find them. In Derrida's case, it is Oxford in 1968; in Benjamin's case, it is somewhere (or nowhere) near London in 1948. These, then, are plays in which the philosopher is exiled, or elsewhere - not quite himself. This a volume for anyone with an eye or ear for where theatre or performance meets philosophy - students, scholars, readers, actors.

Life.After.Theory
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ISBN: 9780826494726 Year: 2007 Publisher: London ; New York Continuum

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