Simon Critchley, Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Tag: literary criticism
Unlike other kinds of addictions, anorexia disguises itself as virtue. The anorexic is a modern-day phrenologist, searching for saintliness and vice in the bone structure of strangers. She is at once insane, dying, and inhumane.
The spectral possibility that gives lyric its urgency is not that the beloved isn’t listening, but that the beloved doesn’t exist. Prayer takes place at the edge of a similar abyss.
from “The Sower against Gardens” by Linda Gregerson
Terry Eagleton
God is not an additional existent, but the Spirit in which all existing things are seen. […] God does not belong to the world of finite things, but gives sense to it.
Cf. Dewi Z. Phillips, “God and Concept-Formation in Simone Weil,” in Simone
Weil’s Philosophy of Culture, ed. Richard Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993), 77–92
Weil’s Philosophy of Culture, ed. Richard Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993), 77–92
Virginia Woolf from “On Not Knowing Greek”
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn (full text here)
Helene Cixous, Preface to Stream of Life (Read here)
In women’s writing, language seems to be seen from a foreign land; is it seen from the point of view of an asymbolic, spastic body? Virginia Woolf describes suspended states, subtle sensations, and above all, colors-green, blue-but she does not dissect language as Joyce does. Estranged from language, women are visionaries, dancers who suffer as they speak
Julia Kristeva
Hélène Cixous, Poetry in painting: writings on contemporary arts and aesthetics
Hélène Cixous, from Poetry in painting: writings on contemporary arts and aesthetics
Little Bristling Soul 