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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
... begins by detailing Bersani’s early engagement, in Balzac to Beckett: Center and Circumference in French Fiction (1970), with Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s and Maurice Blanchot’s commentaries on the two writers. Having borrowed Deleuze’s description of Proust...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 259–266.
Published: 01 May 2023
...David Lloyd This essay discusses a remark on the eye and the mouth in Bersani and Dutoit’s Caravaggio’s Secrets that links Caravaggio to Samuel Beckett. Exploring the idea of the gaze and the voice as “things” rather than objects that confirm the subject in its place, and connecting Bersani’s...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 64–93.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Thangam Ravindranathan This essay considers the lobster of Samuel Beckett’s early story “Dante and the Lobster” as what disturbs the count. Assumed to be dead, only to then be revealed alive when it is about to enter the cooking pot, the lobster here is an “incalculable factor” that unsettles...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 209–216.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Ryan Dohoney In their ruminations on Mark Rothko’s Chapel paintings, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit posit a mode of aesthetic consciousness produced by acts of renunciation. Rothko deliberately relinquishes his paintings’ visibility and thus, like Beckett and Resnais, impoverishes a primary feature...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 6–19.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Press, 2000 . 277 -308. Cronin, Anthony. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist . New York: Harper Collins, 1997 . Hegel, G. W. F. “The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate.” Early Theological Writings . Trans. T. M. Knox. Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1971 . 182 -301. ____. Phenomenology...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 May 2023
... The justification of close, contextual reading [ . . . ] is that the artist’s [writer’s] range of inventiveness, like our range of freedom in life, can perhaps best be measured by the number of ways in which, at any moment, he can be different from himself. — Balzac to Beckett 20 If you are reading...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that he borrows from late Beckett. Why? Briefly, three possibilities come to mind. First, these terms and turns—and there are many more—are synonymous but not exactly substitutable; to borrow a favored term from Bersani and Dutoit, they are “inaccurate replications” of each other, together forming...
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 24–61.
Published: 01 July 1993
... , Roberts Mark S. , and Weiss Allen S. , eds. Psychosis and Sexual Identity: Toward a Post-Analytic View of the Schreber Case . Albany : State U of New York P , 1988 . Beauvoir Simone de . The Prime of Life . Trans. Green Peter . London : Deutsch , 1962 . Beckett...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 43–53.
Published: 01 November 2015
...?,” a question that is itself a citation placed in quotation marks and therefore marked as a “borrowing” of what rightly belongs to someone else (in this case, Beckett, “what matter who’s speaking?”), calls out to be authored or to be recognized as having been authored in a way that we are not free to ignore...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 1996
...Avital Ronell Copyright © 1997 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1997 Works Cited Beckett Samuel . Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929–1989 . Ed. Gontarski S. E. . New York : Grove , 1995 . Birner Louis...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 191–199.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in the final chapter of Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit’s 1993 Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais proves to be resourceful. Among other things, it is an act of generosity and compliance to present so succinctly a list of things the text is supposed to work against . I have always appreciated...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 May 2023
... “passively reflect[s].” By cathecting those sentences for their “formal shock” as pure instances of linguistic saying, even at the cost of what he would say, he opens his language to the propositional failures and the conceptual inconsistencies that his essay discerns in Samuel Beckett’s pursuit...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 200–208.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., that draws Bersani to Genet’s various forms of aloneness. Literature and art: these provide for Genet, as for Beckett, and for Bersani too, fantasmatic spaces for exploring and imagining not simply rebellion but an “effective rebellion” against assigned identities (173). Literature and art enable a real...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 2023
... weight of disapprobation that “anecdotally, Proustian desire is frequently homosexual; ontologically, it is always heterosexual” (142). Indeed, as early as the 1970 Balzac to Beckett , Bersani casts Proustian desire as the antithesis of the receding narrative self in Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2010
.... Cambridge: Polity, 2007 . ———. Handbook of Inaesthetics . Trans. Alberto Toscano. Stanford: Stanford up, 2005 . ———. Logics of Worlds: Being and Event 2 . Trans. Alberto Toscano. London: Continuum, 2009 . ———. On Beckett . Trans. Alberto Toscano. Manchester: Clinamen, 2004...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 178–193.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... ———. “The Writing of the Generic.” On Beckett . Trans. Alberto Toscano. Ed. Alberto Toscano and Nina Power. Manchester: Clinamen, 2003 . 1 -36. Barnard, Clio, dir. Dark Glass . 2006 . Film and Video Umbrella. Commissioned by Single Shot, u.k. Arts Council Moving Image Initiative. Benjamin, Walter...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 35–43.
Published: 01 May 2023
... . Bersani Leo . “ The Will to Know .” Is the Rectum 154 – 67 . Bersani Leo Dutoit Ulysse . Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 1993 . Bersani Leo Dutoit Ulysse . “ Beyond—or Before?—Sex .” Caravaggio’s 75 – 83 . Bersani...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 60–68.
Published: 01 May 2023
...? And Other Essays . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2009 . 3 – 30 . Bersani Leo . Receptive Bodies . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2018 . Bersani Leo Dutoit Ulysse . Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 1993 . Bersani Leo...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 283–293.
Published: 01 May 2023
... . The Culture of Redemption . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 1990 . Bersani Leo . “ Father Knows Best .” Raritan 29 . 4 ( Spring 2010 ): 92 – 104 . Bersani Leo . Homos . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 1995 . Bersani Leo Dutoit Ulysse . Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 1–37.
Published: 01 November 1992
... reverted to figurative painting after the First World War. Dismorr exhibited abstract works with the Seven and Five Society in the 1920s. Since writing this paper my attention has been drawn to Beckett and Cherry's article, "Women under the Banner of Vorticism." 66 On the Rhythm circle, see note 4; also...
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