Joseph Acquisto: 3 books
The Fall Out of Redemption
Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity...
by Joseph Acquisto
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse?...
Proust, Music, and Meaning
Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book is about reading Proust’s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to “modern” listening. It articulates how insights into the way we listen to and understand classical music inform the creation of literary meaning. It asks: are we to take at face value the ideas about...