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This book explores the significance of photography for Iain Sinclair's London prose. The visual medium is one of the writer's most prominent motifs, featuring extensively in his fiction and non-fiction. This study, however, proposes that its role in Sinclair's work extends beyond that of a literary theme, to an actual literary principle. In its interdisciplinary rereading of his writing, this book uses key notions of photography theory to examine the correlation between the principal ideological aspects of the visual medium and the main characteristics of Sinclair's unique brand of...

This book analyzes art criticism on Abstract Expressionism, lauded as -the triumph of American painting.- It traces the ways in which the movement s meaning has been construed and constructed in reference to the changing cultural and political framework. Starting from the purely formal analyses of the 1950s and early 1960s, through the radical political statements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, until the later interpretations inspired mainly by gender and postcolonial studies, this book cuts across the domains of politics, philosophy and art criticism. The question of whether Abstract...

Drawing on theories of biography and autobiography, including the works of Philippe Lejeune, Michel Foucault, and Philip Roth, Rolfe, Rose, Corvo, Crabbe attempts to tackle the issue of Frederick Rolfe s image. Like many other authors, Rolfe (1860 1913), also known as Baron Corvo, wanted to influence the way others see him through his works. However, the image he wanted to project was skewed by A.J.A. Symons fascinating, yet inaccurate, biography, The Quest for Corvo, which popularized a strongly autobiographical approach to his work. Analysing the issue, this book takes into...

The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson s The Princess through the prism of their critical ideas. She analyses Tennyson s reconsideration of gender binaries and women s rights as well as the poem s reliance on the aesthetics of the grotesque and its metapoetic games. The book rests on the premise that literature cannot be studied in isolation from its immediate socio-historical context. As such, poetry becomes an outcome of social and cultural negotiations, moving -in a strange diagonal- between the author and his public."