Writing Against Time by Clune, Michael W.
Writing Against Time by Clune, Michael W.

Writing Against Time

For centuries, a central goal of art has been to make us see the world with new...
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Author: Michael W. Clune
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Language: English
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Writing Against Time by Clune, Michael W.

Writing Against Time

$84.57
Writing Against Time by Clune, Michael W.

Writing Against Time

$84.57
Author: Michael W. Clune
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

For centuries, a central goal of art has been to make us see the world with new eyes. Thinkers from Edmund Burke to Elaine Scarry have understood this effort as the attempt to create new forms. But as anyone who has ever worn out a song by repeated listening knows, artistic form is hardly immune to sensation-killing habit. Some of our most ambitious writers--Keats, Proust, Nabokov, Ashbery--have been obsessed by this problem. Attempting to create an image that never gets old, they experiment with virtual, ideal forms. Poems and novels become workshops, as fragments of the real world are scrutinized for insights and the shape of an ideal artwork is pieced together. These writers, voracious in their appetite for any knowledge that will further their goal, find help in unlikely places. The logic of totalitarian regimes, the phenomenology of music, the pathology of addiction, and global commodity exchange furnish them with tools and models for arresting neurobiological time. Reading central works of the past two centuries in light of their shared ambition, Clune produces a revisionary understanding of some of our most important literature.



Author: Michael W. Clune
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 01/09/2013
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780804770828


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2013

About the Author
Michael Clune is Assistant Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of a previous work of criticism, American Literature and the Free Market, and of a forthcoming memoir, White Out.
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