Awakenings in Word and Image.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Nathaniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Emergence (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

Awakenings in Word and Image takes up the experience of awakening from antiquity onward. Theories of eschatology and cognition are utilized to clarify a basic experience that has been subject to a surprising shortage of critical attention.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Figures

Chapter 1 Introduction: Awakening as a Falling-into-Place

Chapter 2 Backgrounds

1 Eschatological and Other Precedents: Egyptian to Medieval

2 Aurora's Hour: Awakenings into and of the Early Modern

Chapter 3 Resurrection's Afterlife

1 The Nineteenth - the Century of Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Ibsen

2 Proustian and Other Modernist Awakenings (Husserl, Kafka, Larkin, Wilbur)

Chapter 4 Disconnections and Fiascos: Arrival of the Postmodern

1 A Descension of Poems (Lowell, Larkin bis, Ashbery, Others)

2 Prose Insurgencies

2.1 Tip Marugg - The Roar of Morning (De morgen loeit weer aan) (1988)

2.2 Robert Coover - Briar Rose (1996)

Chapter 5 Awakening from the Postmodern: Paintings by Vincent Desiderio

1 Savant (1994) - Fully Awake at the End of the Postmodern

2 Sleep I (2004) - Awaiting an Awakening

Chapter 6 Conclusion: Reveries of Self-Location

1 Vincent Desiderio's Double Self-Portrait (2020)

2 David Yaghjian's Scene LXII - Hand on Head (2018)

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: Wallace, Nathaniel Awakenings in Word and Image

ISBN:

9789004757059

OCLC:

1587901650