Fool

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point toward new possibilities in creative and critical thought.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface
Preface
Chapter 1 - Foolish Objects: Between Public and Private Selves
Chapter 2 - To the Point of Clowning: Going Astray with Theodor Adorno
Chapter 3 - Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava Polunin
Chapter 4 - Becoming Clown: A Conversation with Mike Funt and David Bridel
Chapter 5 - Notes from the Theatre: Fragments and Criticisms
Chapter 6 - Trompe-l'oeil: A Brief History
Chapter 7 - Thinking: With David Bridel (October 2021-June 2022)
Two photographs
Works cited
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Johanna Skibsrud is Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. She is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics (2020), Island (2019), and The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature, and Being (2019).

Zusammenfassung

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point toward new possibilities in creative and critical thought.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Johanna Skibsrud
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032216140
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221614-0
• Seiten: 82
• Serie: New Literary Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Ratgeber > Recht, Beruf, Finanzen > Ausbildung, Beruf, Karriere; Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Literatur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides