Tag Archives: Sebald

SEBALD AND “PARLOUS LOFTINESS”:QUEER OR CAMP?BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 23, 2013 by decayetude

Sebald said, of Thomas Browne’s style in “Urn Burial”:”his only means of achieving the sublime heights that this endeavour required was a parlous loftiness{sic}in his language…constructing labarynthine sentences that sometimes extend over one or two pages, sentences that resemble processions … Continue reading →

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RE-ENVISIONNING:MICHAEL PONTI AND SEBALD. INSPIRED BY SEBALD’S ESSAY ON JAN PETER TRIPP IN “A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY”(TRANS.CAITLING, 2013).BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 22, 2013 by decayetude

RE-EN VISIONNING: “Additions” “Rotated a Fraction Out of Kilter”; “Tonal Shades Altered”; “Interventions Deviations and Differences”…. These Phrases- Similarly Found in Deconstruction Ism and Queer Theory:- They could Equally Describe Sebald’s Writing Style; And PONTI’s Pianistic Peregrinations, His peripat Etic … Continue reading →

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LIMINALITY; SOME DEFINITIONS AND CONNOTATIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 3, 2013 by decayetude

1.A THRESHOLD, sometimes called transition rites,originally from anthropology, in relation to (often religious/spiritual) rituals: ie the phase at which a participant in the ritual stands on the threshold(the point of liminality/liminal space)between a previous way of establishing, for instance, their … Continue reading →

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