A critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s. Delville adds evidence to the prose poem's reputation as a norm-breaking form by writing within, against and across existing genres and traditions.
From Plato's dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant's relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence that philosophers consider taste as an inferior sense because it belongs to the realm of the private ...
This book is not another critical biography, but an interpretive essay investigating what we feel is the cultural and historical importance of Zappa and Beefheart in the context of a wide-ranging network of references that run from Michelangelo and Arcimboldo to William Burroughs and Vaclav Havel. Readers who are only vaguely familiar with their ...
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. It has often been claimed that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. The general distrust of methods that combine or aggregate knowledge from different research fields, and therefore tend to elide or smooth out some of their particularities, may account for the ...
Michel Delville has produced in this volume, the first book-length study of J.G. Ballard''s literary outp ut and commentaries on contemporary culture '
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