Literature and Film, Dispositioned: Thought, Location, World (Language, Discourse, Society)

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and Samuel Beckett, whose Film (1965) forms a concluding focus. Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film - silent film in particular - as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature. Interested especially in theories of free indirect style both literary and filmic, it brings these theories together by seeing the free indirect as involving less the representation of interiority than a disposition (a subjective temperament) that is also a dispositioning (subjectivity's displacement, or else its eclipsical quitting). In this sense, the book is also more broadly an exploration of the disposition of literature, the ways in which literature is disposed to the world, in the world. Meditative in its analyses, the book includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett; whose Film (1965) - filmed in New York City and starring a wizened and wrinkled Buster Keaton - forms a concluding focus Front Matter....Pages i-xi Literature....Pages 1-33 Intermedium....Pages 34-68 Intramedium....Pages 69-97 Film....Pages 98-119 Film....Pages 120-153 Back Matter....Pages 154-180