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  • They seem here to be required to stand in distinction to groups, clubs, classes, gangs, filiations and collectivities: to take on an existence in opposition to such things, rather than to take on existence as parts of those things.

    A Glamorously Hopeless Cause : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • In this astonishingly fine and serious book, which by no means skips the elements of scandal and salacity, Zachary Leader has struck a near-ideal balance between the life and the work, and has traced the filiations between the two without any strain or pretension.

    One Fraught Englishman 2007

  • In this astonishingly fine and serious book, which by no means skips the elements of scandal and salacity, Zachary Leader has struck a near-ideal balance between the life and the work, and has traced the filiations between the two without any strain or pretension.

    One Fraught Englishman 2007

  • In this astonishingly fine and serious book, which by no means skips the elements of scandal and salacity, Zachary Leader has struck a near-ideal balance between the life and the work, and has traced the filiations between the two without any strain or pretension.

    One Fraught Englishman 2007

  • Though Guillory's book has at times been critically reviewed, neither the accuracy of his account of de Man nor the filiations linking that account to his book's broader claims about literary canon formation have been carefully examined. 1

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

  • In what follows I won't try to trace filiations between the essays collected here and their authors 'previous work — David Ferris's analysis of modernity, criticism, and aesthetics in his brilliant Silent Urns, or Ian Balfour's reading of inspiration and self-loss in his award-winning The

    Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

  • At the start of my introduction I said the papers in this issue of Praxis addressed the following question: to what extent can the Gothic's numerous filiations with the phantasmagoria be characterised as

    Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

  • Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses.

    Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

  • Read in this light, filiations between the Gothic and the phantasmagoria no longer seem fortuitous, as both may be said to be grounded in the same "shift."

    Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

  • And to what extent can the Gothic's numerous filiations with the phantasmagoria be characterised as a deep-structural affinity with the century's emerging visual technologies?

    Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

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