tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77183868607918707532024-02-20T11:00:15.373+00:00A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy and the ArtsRhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comBlogger2052125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-44449738736732287502015-04-16T01:05:00.000+01:002016-08-25T15:24:52.935+01:00Update Your Bookmarks! A Piece of Monologue is now at RhysTranter.com
Update Your Bookmarks and Subscribe Today! | RhysTranter.comRhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-82147427884464015102015-03-16T22:12:00.000+00:002015-03-18T12:33:51.032+00:00Rediscovering Raymond Williams
Geoff Dyer on 'one of the left's great thinkers'
Raymond Williams
From Geoff Dyer (New Statesman):
“I come from Pandy . . .” The first words spoken by Raymond Williams in Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review (1979) may not have quite the rolling loquacity of the opening line of Saul Bellow’s Adventures of Augie March – “I am an American, Chicago born . . .” – but in their Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-64309091270495321382015-03-12T15:32:00.002+00:002015-03-12T15:32:18.318+00:00CFP: Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives
University of Limerick, Ireland · 20-22 May 2015
Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives
University of Limerick, Ireland
20-22 May 2014
A conference engaging with the symbolic aspects of women and ageing in culture and society, and the power these constructions exert over old age.
Conveners: Dr Cathy McGlynn, Dr Maggie O’Neill, Dr Michaela Schrage-Früh (University of Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-77029733298797165282015-03-12T12:08:00.000+00:002015-03-12T15:20:55.664+00:00On the David Foster Wallace Biopic, The End of the Tour
Emma Bailey asks whether the new film helps or hinders Wallace's legacy
Jesse Eisenberg (left) and Jason Segel (right) in The End of the Tour (dir. James Ponsoldt, 2015)
While many fans of author David Foster Wallace agree that his works are worthy of further attention from both media and mainstream audiences, the merits of gaining this publicity through film have been much debated among Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-79897073676083127462015-03-12T09:07:00.001+00:002015-03-12T12:03:18.011+00:00Andy Goldsworthy: In the Studio
TateShots explores how Goldsworthy uses materials to explore our connection with nature
If you like this, take a look at
Rivers and Tides, a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy and his work.Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-61004388550171124692015-03-11T16:17:00.001+00:002015-03-11T16:37:17.674+00:00Overbeck on Editing Samuel Beckett's Letters
Stefano Rosignoli asks Lois M. Overbeck about the ongoing four-volume edition
Samuel Beckett. Photograph: John Minihan
From Stefano Rosignoli (New Dublin Press):
At the end of a summer rich in events on Samuel Beckett, scattered largely between Dublin, Belfast and Enniskillen, academic research was encouraged in October with the publication by Cambridge University Press of the third volume Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-78566190302122467192015-03-11T16:17:00.000+00:002015-03-11T16:17:01.860+00:00Modernism's Chronic Conditions: Temporality, Medicine, and Disorders of the Self
Free Public Event · University of Exeter, 17 April 2015
Modernism's Chronic Conditions: Temporality, Medicine, and Disorders of the Self
Xfi Building, University of Exeter
Friday 17 April 2015
Registration is Free
Speakers
Dr Marion Coutts, author of The Iceberg (Goldsmiths)
Prof Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University)
Dr Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck)
Prof Jeremy Holmes (University of Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-89629209563100383232015-03-11T16:16:00.005+00:002015-03-11T16:16:51.928+00:00Dan Gunn on Finding Time for Literature
Writers and translator Lydia Davis talks to Dann Gunn about Beckett and The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Photograph: Dan Gunn
From Music & Literature:
A very orderly Greek friend visited me recently, and on stepping into my office and seeing the state of my desk, cried out “Dan! What is that?” He was genuinely shocked, perturbed even, at the sight of the books, papers, unopened envelopes, and Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-31495729011847686422015-03-11T16:16:00.004+00:002015-03-11T16:16:39.252+00:00Infinite Fictions: Essays on Literature and Theory
A collection of essays by upcoming literary critic, David Winters
David Winters
A promising new title from Zero Books: ‘David Winters has quickly become a leading voice in the new landscape of online literary criticism. His widely-published work maps the furthest frontiers of contemporary fiction and theory. The essays in this book range from the American satirist Sam Lipsyte to the reclusiveRhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-14562948941577077692015-03-11T16:16:00.003+00:002015-03-11T16:16:26.111+00:00CFP: Scale: Malta, 2015
European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts · Malta · 15-18 June 2015
A still from Terrence Malick's Tree of Life (2011)
From the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu):
This year’s conference is dedicated to the theme of Scale. In one way or another, scale is an issue deeply embedded in every discipline and every aspect of scholarly and scientific researchRhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-46106931709448312762015-03-11T16:16:00.002+00:002015-03-11T16:16:16.205+00:00Stanley2 – A Photographic Exhibition by Helen Taylor
Stanley, County Durham · 14 March - 14 April 2015
Photograph: Helen Taylor
Press Release:
Stanley2 – a photographic exhibition by Helen Taylor
Civic Hall Stanley, Front Street, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 0NA
14 March to 14 April 2015
Scenes of unreality and mind-bending perspectives will be on display next month at the first solo exhibition by North East photographer Helen Taylor.
Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-82456425124758594022015-03-10T18:13:00.002+00:002015-03-10T18:13:22.443+00:00What Homer Can Tell Us About Modern War
Charlotte Higgins on the continuing relevance of a 3,000-year-old poem.
From Charlotte Higgins (The Guardian):
Many wishing to make sense of wars in their own time have reached for The Iliad. Alexander the Great, perhaps the most flamboyantly successful soldier in history, slept beside a copy annotated by his tutor, Aristotle. "He esteemed it a perfect portable treasure of all military Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-75834039716827081272015-02-27T10:35:00.000+00:002015-02-27T10:35:59.408+00:00Beckett’s Bodies: Affect, Disability, Performance
SAMLA 85: Durham, NC Nov 13-15, 2015
Samuel Beckett rehearsing with the San Quentin Drama Workshop
The Samuel Beckett Society, Affiliated Session
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Chair/contact: Michelle Rada, Brown University
Beckett’s Bodies: Affect, Disability, Performance
This panel seeks to explore the ways in which bodies are figured and disfigured Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-12438812941976734822015-02-25T23:41:00.001+00:002015-02-25T23:41:19.247+00:00What David Foster Wallace Taught Paul Thomas Anderson
The Paris Review transcribes a recent interview
Paul Thomas Anderson
From The Paris Review:
When I was at Emerson for that year, David Foster Wallace, who was a great writer who was not known then, was my teacher—he was my English teacher … It was the first teacher I fell in love with. I’d never found anybody else like that at any of the other schools I’d been to. Which makes me really Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-3163996358914972692015-02-25T19:40:00.001+00:002015-02-25T19:46:03.459+00:00The Silence And Awe Of Arvo Pärt
An interview broadcast by NPR
Arvo Pärt
From Tom Huizenga (NPR):
Arvo Pärt is one of the few living composers to find popularity beyond the borders of classical music. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Bjork are big fans. Although the 78-year-old musician usually shies away from acclaim and the media, he is currently attending a festival of his music in New York and Washington, and he made time toRhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-35948619712043510352015-01-15T17:41:00.002+00:002015-02-27T10:23:22.144+00:00Living Memories: Hilberg and the Holocaust
On Raul Hilberg's The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian
Raul Hilberg
As a child refugee from Europe at the outset of the Second World War, Raul Hilberg escaped with his parents to Paris, then Cuba, before settling permanently in the United States. This traumatic exile formed the basis of a lifelong preoccupation, by turns both emotional and intellectual, which Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-55245967082711402532014-12-27T18:55:00.001+00:002014-12-27T18:58:56.761+00:00Gerhard Richter's Desk
A still taken from Corinna Belz's documentary
Via Procured Design.
Find Gerhard Richter Painting on Amazon: US | UK
Also at A Piece of Monologue:
Gerhard Richter, Tapestries Exhibition
Tom McCarthy on Gerhard Richter
Documentary: Gerhard Richter Painting
Homes of German Philosophers
Wittgenstein Day-to-Day
Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-89443459818926706172014-12-26T19:49:00.002+00:002014-12-26T19:52:53.733+00:00Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939A beautiful, fully-illustrated history of the legendary jazz label
Blue Note: Uncompromising Vision: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939
Blue Note: Uncompromising Vision: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939
Blue Note: Uncompromising Vision: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939
Blue Note: Uncompromising Vision: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939
Blue Note: Uncompromising Vision: The Finest in Jazz Since Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-87815291064827123672014-12-17T12:40:00.001+00:002014-12-17T12:40:15.399+00:00Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Archive
An online repository of the eclectic podcast
Bob Dylan
Listen in to the Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour archive.
Find on Amazon: US | UK
Also at A Piece of Monologue:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: 1963 Photoshoot
Bob Dylan to release Chronicles II and III
Barry Feinstein 1931-2011
Joyce Carol Oates on Bob Dylan
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-89989825903037878522014-12-16T17:56:00.005+00:002014-12-16T17:57:46.142+00:00Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks
Brad Dukes' volume offers an in-depth look into the making of the series
Brad Dukes, Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks
From Abigail Schaeffer (Chicago Literati):
Released just in time to coincide with the much anticipated Blu-Ray release of Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery and Missing Pieces, Brad Dukes’ new book, Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks sheds new light on the Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-56271254171383979612014-12-16T17:30:00.003+00:002014-12-16T17:30:32.971+00:00Michael Stipe on Douglas Coupland and 9/11
Former REM frontman reflects on the images that haunt America
From Michael Stipe (The Guardian):
With a small, powerful set of images, Douglas Coupland actually manages to playfully (how did he pull that off?) remind us of our collective 9/11 moment – the act that unzippered the 21st century in most of the world, and changed my notion of home and safety forever. Coupland’s at first Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-69217245324076543442014-12-03T14:58:00.000+00:002014-12-03T14:58:02.617+00:00The Bleed 03: Launch at BALTIC book market
Magazine launch. 5 December – 6 December 2014
The Bleed (03)
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway
The new issue of The Bleed magazine will be launched at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art this week.
The independent magazine’s latest issue will be available for the first time at the two-day BALTIC Artists’ Book Market, which Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-61704882940963942372014-11-30T13:29:00.002+00:002014-11-30T13:42:09.351+00:00Free Event: Nicola Humble on The Literature of Food
Assuming Gender Annual Lecture · Cardiff University, 10 December 2014
Design: Rhys Tranter
Announcement from Assuming Gender:
Free Public Event at Cardiff University. All welcome to attend.
Assuming Gender Annual Lecture 2014.
10 December, 5.15pm.
Professor Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton)
'The Literature of Food'
The lecture will be preceded by a wine reception from 4.00pm.
AfterRhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-51988203721415573082014-11-16T12:37:00.001+00:002014-11-16T12:38:02.491+00:00Hotel: A New Journal for Literature and the Arts
Call for submissions
An announcement from Hotel:
A Hotel is defined by its inhabitants: Commenting on the role of the novelist at mid-Century, Alain Robbe-Grillet would declare that the genuine writer “has nothing to say” but rather “only a way of speaking.” Whilst his conceit is here broadly prevalent as an exploratory view of the formalist interests that help us, as readers, discern a Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718386860791870753.post-24794281730475869192014-10-27T11:48:00.002+00:002014-10-27T11:48:26.130+00:00Samuel Beckett: Small vs. Large Theatres
George Hunka on the size and space of Beckett productions
From George Hunka:
A little poking around reveals that many of Beckett’s early plays had their New York premieres in theatres that, compared to the Harvey, are hopelessly tiny. Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape both premiered at the 179-seat Cherry Lane Theatre, where they enjoyed substantial if not particularly long runs, and as Kalb Rhys Tranterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.com