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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Skibsrud
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032216140
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221614-0
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: New Literary Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides