Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film - silent film in particular - as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature. Interested especially in theories of free indirect style both literary and filmic, it brings these theories together by seeing the free indirect as involving less the representation of interiority than a disposition (a subjective temperament) that is also a dispositioning (subjectivity's displacement, or else its eclipsical quitting). In this sense, the book is also more broadly an exploration of the...
Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film - silent film in particular - as a means to thinking ab...