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Literature and Film, Dispositioned

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137295453

ISBN: 978-1-349-45185-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 8, 2015

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Chapter 1Literature

Gavin, Alice

Pages: 1 –33

[Where in the world is language, and where in language is the world? Where, in other words, in another’s words, ‘is the place where language works?’1 Without doubt, the whereabouts of literary beings are never simply geographical. Location is also a case of locution. For a literary being,...
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Chapter 2Intermedium

Gavin, Alice

Pages: 34 –68

[The protagonist of one of Henry James’s short stories has a horror of pronouns. ‘The Jolly Corner’ (1908) is not only the story of a New Yorker returned to his city of birth after a significant period of absence — in Spencer Brydon’s case 33 years. Nor is it only the story of Spencer’s...
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Chapter 3Intramedium

Gavin, Alice

Pages: 69 –97

[‘The modern art of the novel’, writes Adriana Cavarero, ‘loves to look inside, to excavate appearances in order to discover the interiority of the subject’, a love Cavarero also associates with modernity’s ‘loss of the world.’1 Against this interiorized being Cavarero puts forth a ‘narratable’...
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Chapter 4Film

Gavin, Alice

Pages: 98 –119

[‘I believe’, the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg is supposed to have said, ‘that cinema was here from the beginning of the world.’1 Since common sense counters that cinema was not here from the beginning of the world, what sort of sense should we make of such a statement, or what...
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Chapter 5Film

Gavin, Alice

Pages: 120 –153

[In a letter to his friend Thomas McGreevy sent in February 1936, Samuel Beckett explains his reasons for wanting to turn a love of the cinema into an occupation. ‘What I would learn under a person like [the Russian director] Pudovkin’, he writes, ‘is how to handle a camera, the higher trucs of...

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