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Fordham University Press Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form

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Product Description The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text’s vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work― its inability either to comprise its inception or to externalize it in an authorizing exteriority. In a different but related way, the fact that they must begin renders our lives and our desires opaque to us; what Freud called “latency” marks not only sexuality but human thought with a self-division shaped by asynchronicity. From Henry James’s New York Edition prefaces to George Eliot’s epigraphs, from Ovid’s play with meter to Charles Dickens’s thematizing of the ex nihilo emergence of character, from Wallace Stevens’s abstract consideration of poetic origins to James Baldwin’s, Carson McCullers’s, and Eudora Welty’s descriptions of queer childhood, writers repeatedly confront the problem of inception. Inception introduces a fundamental contingency into texts and psyches alike: in the beginning, all could have been otherwise. For Kevin Ohi, the act of inception, and the potential it embodies, enables us to see making and unmaking coincide within the mechanism of creation. In this sense, Inceptions traces an ethics of reading, the possibility of perceiving, in the ostensibly finished forms of lives and texts, the potentiality inherent in their having started forth. Review Inceptions is an erudite, original investigation into the conditions of possibility of works of literature: how formal language evolves from the silence or noisiness of the world. The investigation is as much ethical and erotic as it is formal. Returning to the origins of texts restores the moment when the text was all potential; this revives the moment of freedom to our lives and subjectivities. The book will be of interest to scholars of each of Ohi's authors; Ohi is a match (to name three of them) for George Eliot's complexity, Henry James's subtlety, and Wallace Stevens's abstraction. ---John Limon, Williams College, About the Author Kevin Ohi is Professor of English at Boston College.He is the author of three previous books, including, most recently, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission.

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Brand: Fordham University Press
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ASIN: 0823294625
Category: Books > Subjects > LGBTQ+ Books > Political & Social Issues
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Release Date: 06 April 2021
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