Sarah Wood
Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces
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'From the first word that isn't a beginning word to the last word that isn't a concluding word Sarah Wood's gripping text journeys us through ourselves in our time. Forcing us beyond a puffed-up and thin-skinned narcissism that supposes human beings the admirable centre of everything, and finding ourselves again, uncleansed, as a force that distinguishes itself, above all, in destructiveness. This is an (un)timely work of a well versed (in)sister. It is serious without being pious, and critical without being aloof. It is writing worth reading for.'Simon GlendinningReader in European Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science…
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'From the first word that isn't a beginning word to the last word that isn't a concluding word Sarah Wood's gripping text journeys us through ourselves in our time. Forcing us beyond a puffed-up and thin-skinned narcissism that supposes human beings the admirable centre of everything, and finding ourselves again, uncleansed, as a force that distinguishes itself, above all, in destructiveness. This is an (un)timely work of a well versed (in)sister. It is serious without being pious, and critical without being aloof. It is writing worth reading for.'Simon GlendinningReader in European Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science'Out of the blue, yet always into this endangered blue planet, her questions, who do you work for?, what do you read for?, overwhelm you with cataclysmic force. You are without mastery and never more happy with her embrace of the anacoluthic, her severity, the often lol funny verity of obedient freedom that blazes on every page. At once exhilarating and serenely harmonious, this boldly distended and beautifully concatenated volume unfurls a newly inventive page of literary reading and thinking. Sarah Wood's smile-bringing, yes!-inducing creations of critical, sensorial writing move in constant ricochet with the poetics of numerous artists, among whom she, in this divergent concameration, comes to be included.'Thomas Dutoit, University of LilleSpeaks to and helps us address where we are now, institutionally, environmentally and in thinking about readingWithout Mastery engages the pleasures and rigours of reading, invoking Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, Plato's Lady Necessity, Freud, Derrida, Cixous, animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore our desire for mastery - especially the omnipotence of thoughts. Masterful thinking has brought the planet into environmental crisis. The acquiescence of reading, Wood shows, allows us to make contact with the unthinkable.Sarah Wood teaches at the University of Kent, is an Editor of Oxford Literary Review and Angelaki, and a trainee at the Guild of Psychotherapists in London.[Please note change to image credit (e.g. remove 'Photograph: Donald Smith')]Cover image: Sharon Kivland, Mes bêtes sauvages, 2008, from a continuing series.Cover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com
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- ISBN: 978-0-7486-6997-4
- EAN: 9780748669974
- Produktnummer: 17735566
- Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 169 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 476 g
- Gewicht: 476
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Sarah Wood teaches English literature and literary theory at the University of Kent. She is an Editor of Oxford Literary Review and of Angelaki. She is also a trainee at the Guild of Psychotherapists in London
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