‘It was suddenly hard winter’: John Burnside’s Crossings

John Burnside’s poetry and fiction presents the reader with an awkward, uncanny sense of Being. It achieves this through forcing on the reader moments of suspension—epoché in the sense given this word by German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl—which both present and enact shifts in perception of the r...

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Published inÉtudes britanniques contemporaines Vol. 48; no. 48
Main Author Wolfreys, Julian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 01.06.2015
Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
Subjects
Burnside (John)
crossings
deconstruction
otherness
phenomenology
époché
crossings
poetics
poétique
Burnside (John)
époché
l’autre
traversées
deconstruction
phénoménologie
phenomenology
otherness
déconstruction
revenance
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Summary:John Burnside’s poetry and fiction presents the reader with an awkward, uncanny sense of Being. It achieves this through forcing on the reader moments of suspension—epoché in the sense given this word by German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl—which both present and enact shifts in perception of the relationship between self and other, subject and world, memory and the past, which discomforts in its suspension of narrative time as it opens up a phenomenological apperception of Being through the multiple figure of the act of crossing—between past and present, self and other, memory and forgetfulness. In each example there is an irreversible transformation of human understanding that foregrounds the condition of Being in its materiality.
ISSN:1168-4917
2271-5444
DOI:10.4000/ebc.2192