What is it about?
It's interesting to consider the role the body plays in reading and to recall that the encounter with a text can have a sort of haunting freshness about it. Derrida, Abraham and Torok, Browning and Gerard Manley Hopkins have approached the strangeness of reading and writing and the otherness of language. If you are interested, now it's your turn.
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Why is it important?
The overlooked experiences, phenomena and beings are not the least important ones.
Perspectives
Writing this was an intensely scholarly and 'serious' experience of study and thought but not without lightness and even springiness.
Dr Sarah Wood
University of Kent
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This page is a summary of: Some Scraps on Beauty‐in‐the‐Ghost, Parallax, January 2009, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13534640802604422.
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