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Loading... Crypto-Topographia: Stories of Secret Placesby Christopher Middleton
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Christopher Middleton's writing in Crypto-Topographia falls within the genre of 'short prose', which Middleton defines as 'liminal, ludic and disruptive'. Many of the texts concern places, singly or clustered, which offer their own secret store of time: lived time, signs of presence, whispers or howls. Time is stretched back, folded or pretended, and can transform a group of trees into 'the locus of a drama' ('A Close Shave With Sacrilege'). Sometimes place is supplanted by object: sliding carpets and material colour... Dispersed among variously 'situated' texts, history scintillates, not as a plan, but as an ensemble of glimpses. The epilogue records a strange episode of travel, 'The Gaze of the Turkish Mona Lisa', a masterly description of a Turkish lady, whom Middleton manages to depict, while refraining from looking at her. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)828.914Literature English English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1900- English miscellaneous writings 1900-1999 English miscellaneous writings 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |