Bøger af Alan Wall

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German philosopher, essayist and critic whose work has grown in relevance and importance in the 75 years since his death by suicide on the French-Spanish border as Nazi invaders drew near. In his possession: a mysterious suitcase, now lost. The University of Chester's Alan Wall examines many of the recent contexts for discussions of Benjamin and offers detailed explanations for the overdue resurgence of interest in this important writer. Alan Wall studied at Oxford and teaches at the University of Chester. For the past several years, he has been writing about Benjamin for The Fortnightly Review. The aim of this collection of essays is to use some of the key concepts of Walter Benjamin in order to describe aspects of contemporary culture and politics. The chapters in this volume: - Part One: Uneven and Combined Development - Part Two: Texting: Ancient and Modern - Part Three: Bad Reading Habits -Part Four: Spadefuls of Meaning -Part Five: Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg -- Photographs of Heaven, Photographs of Hell - Part Six: The 'Canonicity' of Kafka - Part Seven: Baudelaire, Allegory and the Aura - Part Eight: Benjamin's Angel and His 'Theses' - Part Nine: Benjamin and Surrealism - Part Ten: Benjamin and the City fortnightlyreview.co.uk/odd-volumes/

This book contains the following pieces, all published first in The Fortnightly Review: Essayism and Modernity - William Blake. - Therianthropes and vents. - Constellations. - Pattern recognition and the periodic table. - Extremities of perception in an age of lenses. - Demotic ritual. - Science and disenchantment. - The self-subversion of the book. - Newton's prisms. - The Janus face of Metaphor. - Clues and labyrinths. - Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.

This is the third volume of essays by Alan Wall published by Odd Volumes, the imprint of The Fortnightly Review. As with the first two collections, theseare not academic essays. They are, however, scholarly and charged with the author's singular intelligence and literary skills.Wall believes that the essay is the perfect form for provisional explorations and intellectual forays into the often bewildering realities of the world today. In his hands, the essay form is flexible and capacious, allowing for an engaging intellectual experimentalism which exhilarates and always avoids sliding into academic jargon and obfuscation.

One of 5 chapbooks published by Shearsman in the summer of 2012, this is a single long sequence of poems, which was later collected in the author's full-length volume, Endtimes, his seventh poetry collection.

From Roman tyrants to the persecuted Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, this sequence explores the dark side of our history, and the glories such darkness continues to provoke in art and literature. Between a dusty cellar in Patmos in the 1st century, and the streets of New York on 9/11, the distance can be measured in seconds rather than millennia.

Doctor Placebo finds himself at the end of the western intellectual tradition, and on certain mornings feels almost as old. He broods about his patients; he broods about his poems. Sometimes the two intermingle and he can't remember whether he is a doctor moonlighting as a poet, or a poet moonlighting as a doctor.

Accompanying "Gilgamesh", this is a collection of shorter poems and sequence. The centrepiece is the section in which the author inhabits the clothes of a number of word-masters who lived in London or nearby: Alexander Pope, Thomas More, Johnson, Coleridge, Keats, Burton, Rosenberg, Pound and others.

Features two long pieces: the title work - a translation and partial transposition of the Gilgamesh epic - and the mixed work in verse and prose, Jacob, originally published in the 1990s.