Definitions of “indirection” usually imply deviousness, lack of straightforwardness, deceit. This blog contests such normative directionalities by proceeding from the premise that indirection constitutively marks subjectivity. Thought arises from suggestion. The personal is occasioned by the impersonal. Affect is anterior to act. Listening is prior to speaking. We are always indirectly who we are.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Pardon the Shamless Plug...
...but my review of Marilynn Desmond's Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence has officially appeared in print. My copy of GLQ arrived in the mail the other day. While I posted an earlier version of the review here, some subsequent changes were made. I'm very grateful to Beth Freeman, GLQ's "Books in Brief" editor, for her care, critical attention, and generosity that together made my review venture with GLQ a highly rewarding one. I only hope that there might be other opportunities int he future.
I've posted the pdf of my review to the right; readers will need to scroll down to page 10 for the beginning my review, since GLQ places all the "Books in Brief" reviewed into one pdf.
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