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OverviewCertain moments in British Romantic poetry and art depict a state from which the attributes of existence time and space, subject and object, language and visuality have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, the condition of mere existence. As Blank Splendour demonstrates, poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Clare as well as paintings by Turner evoke a condition that transpires in a time without time, a life without life. David Collings argues that these works invite us to move beyond the subtle remnants of ontology that linger in current versions of posthuman thought, such as affect theory and speculative realism, by opening up a domain of affect without affect, a world without objects. Anticipating the philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, these works bring into view the mode of a deconstruction that emerged before the linguistic turn, one that meditates on the blank condition underlying modernity. Ultimately, Blank Splendour reveals how these works speak to our own moment, when thought, forced to contemplate its own extinction, enters a new form of mere existence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David CollingsPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9781487556044ISBN 10: 1487556047 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 30 July 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Blank Misgivings: Primary Affect in Wordsworth 2. Blank Accident: Nothing’s Anomaly in the Late Coleridge 3. Blank Splendour: The Debris of History in Keats’s Hyperion Poems 4. Blank Oblivion: Wasted Life in Clare’s “Obscurity” 5. Blank Light: Annihilating Radiance in Turner Notes Bibliography IndexReviews""In Blank Splendour David Collings explores the impossible terrain implied by Keats's formulation. How do we experience an affectless affect? Collings coins the phrase 'mere existence' to resist the consolidation implied by 'being.' The stakes and rewards in locating such (non)experiences in Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, and Turner are hard-earned through impressive philosophical rigour and wonderfully precise close readings - a book of stunning critical interventions.""--Alan Vardy, Professor Emeritus of English, Hunter College at the City University of New York ""Blank Splendour brings British Romanticism to its minimalist limit point, erasing any vestige of human subjectivity in poetry and painting. In this disquieting confrontation with total poetic barrenness, we discover something that oddly persists, surviving every negation.""--David Sigler, Professor of English, University of Calgary """In Blank Splendour David Collings explores the impossible terrain implied by Keats's formulation. How do we experience an affectless affect? Collings coins the phrase 'mere existence' to resist the consolidation implied by 'being.' The stakes and rewards in locating such (non)experiences in Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, and Turner are hard-earned through impressive philosophical rigour and wonderfully precise close readings - a book of stunning critical interventions.""--Alan Vardy, Professor Emeritus of English, Hunter College at the City University of New York ""Blank Splendour brings British Romanticism to its minimalist limit point, erasing any vestige of human subjectivity in poetry and painting. In this disquieting confrontation with total poetic barrenness, we discover something that oddly persists, surviving every negation.""--David Sigler, Professor of English, University of Calgary" Author InformationDavid Collings is a professor of English at Bowdoin College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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