Denise Riley

This paper develops elements of a phenomenological account of how interpersonal care contributes to the structure of intentionality. It does so by reflecting on a first-person account of parental grief by the poet and thinker Denise Riley. Her autobiographical notes on the aftermath of the death of her adult son revolve around a marked experience of altered temporal flow. By relating what she considers to be an almost unspeakable alteration in her experience of time, Riley unearths a level of nuanced phenomenological reflection that can inform philosophical studies of lived time and intentionality. The paper will build on Riley’s observations on altered temporal experience in grief to explore the entanglement of temporality and intersubjectivity in the constitution of intentionality. It will be demonstrated that and how a phenomenological study of grief can directly speak to key concerns of the philosophy of mind and of interdisciplinary consciousness studies.

. This paper seeks to investigate the anomaly of the contemporary sestina and theorize possible reasons for its revival in the postmodern age. Looking at examples by John Ashbery (1966), David Lehman (1990) and Lisa Jarnot (1996) I seek to draw out places of resonance between these works and illustrate the sestina’s contradictory potential for expression and meaning a thousand years after its inception, in a conceivably alien artistic environment.

Much has been written about the relationship between John Ashbery's poetry and avant-garde art, particularly the painting of the Abstract Expressionists. Two of the earliest articles dealing with this subject—by Fred Moramarco (1976) and Leslie Wolf (1980)—have considered ...

Philip Larkin and Carol Ann Duffy have been, and are, regarded as a step ahead, as the voices that aid other citizens in their struggle to delineate the nature of their concerns about their society and the changes that must be coped with, internalised and incorporated into daily life. Because they are living in times of change, Larkin and Duffy are forced to find new ways to preserve their cultural identity that are not predicated on traditions that are dying or being superseded. The most startling of these changes, however, also affects Britain at the national and international level and in this thesis I examine the writing (including archival material) and life ofthese poets to argue that their efforts to deal with change may be seen as mirroring the stance of their nation, since in a nation with an elected government there must be, at some level, approval for and participation in, the modus operandi of that government. That these practices are imperialistic can come as no surprise, but ideas and practices of imperialism have changed. Thus it is that the older of the poets, Philip Larkin, harks back to the time of British Imperial glory, and the younger, Carol Ann Duffy, maintains a watching and speaking brief based on humanistic values of egalitarianism. Larkin, although he purports to be liberal, especially in matters he regards as the merely conventional, fights against the very structures that could be helpful to him and prioritises the sustaining of a past that has no future except as memory and text. His refusal to conform to the social and canonical demands of his younger days, however, I would like to thank and acknowledge the assistance of a number of people: My supervisors, Dr Rob Jackaman and Dr James Acheson, gave me good advice, encouragement, and were generous with their time. Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy, both busy people, found time to talk with me. My daughters, Emily and Rachael and my partner, R. Michael Peck, showed faith in me and endured uncomplainingly my preoccupation with my work. My friends

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The sexual politics and poetics of tape recording in Richard Linklater's 2001 film, _Tape_.

An extended version of this paper will form a chapter for my _Machine-Events_ book, particularly developing the question of transference and technology. In the meantime, I gave an updated version of this paper with a much stronger intersection with the work of Cornelia Vismann at the Legal Media colloquium and will be publishing that soon, details to follow.

Early in his treatise On the Sublime, Longinus recounts three faults ofwriting that “militate against sublimity”: tumidity, or misplaced grandeur; puerility, or pedantic frigidity in elaborating an idea; and false sentiment (102–3). He goes on in his chapter on “the ...

This paper suggests that certain conceptual, ethical and economic issues surrounding genetics are also relevant to the challenges that climate change poses to the humanities. It takes J.H. Prynne's and Derrida's engagements with biology and information theory as a starting point to address climate modelling, emissions management, biofuels, bioengineering and the importance of scientific competence.

This dissertation focuses on late nineteenth and twentieth century Orientalized representations of British Malaya in the work of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess. It argues that racial logics reflected within this Anglophone expatriate literature influenced colonial and postcolonial politics in Malaysia and Singapore.

... autonomy." Barthes' meaning is obscure, but my sense is that he means a pho tograph is, accidentally or not, a funny crisscross of simple, dumb "thereness"?a "stencil" of reality, as Susan Sontag put it, "faithful and disappointing" as Philip Larkin wrote?and something random ...