{"product_id":"here-is-a-figure-grounding-literary-form-paperback-softback-9780810147904","title":"Here Is a Figure; Grounding Literary Form (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810147904","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHere Is a Figure\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGrounding Literary Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Dowling (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810147904, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Sarah Dowling is one of the most innovative and intelligent literary theorists writing today.”—Craig Perez Santos, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Unincorporated Territory [Åmot]\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHere is a Figure \u003c\/i\u003einvites us to occupy grounding and grounded figures, lining itself up with the invitations to take the place of, to lie down and alongside of, to lie with which define Dowling's fabulous archive. An engaging, accessible work of interdisciplinary criticism.”—Jennifer Doyle, author of\u003ci\u003e Shadow of My Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The prostitute, the protester, the murder victim, the invalid, the layabout, the depressive: all are associated with lying down. Skewing and flattening the perpendicular axis that defines the human in Western philosophy, art, and humanist inquiry, these downward-directed figures’ refusals or failures to hew to the moral and postural logics of uprightness enable a reassessment of subjectivity, ecological relation, and representation—that last of which is, after all, a process of standing-in-for. \u003ci\u003eHere Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form\u003c\/i\u003e works across an array of well-known and counter-canonical texts, showing that recumbent figures saturate the literary arts of the present and respond to the proliferation of contemporary forms of grounding, in all its meanings. Reading these figures in dialogue with critical Indigenous studies, disability studies, and horizontalist feminisms, Sarah Dowling reveals the potential in thinking with and through a position stretched out across, dependent on, and undetachable from the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Figuring\u003cbr\u003e 2. Grounding\u003cbr\u003e 3. Demonstrating\u003cbr\u003e 4. Stretching \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Calling \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Dreaming \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670840537368,"sku":"9780810147904","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/here-is-a-figure-grounding-literary-form-paperback-softback-9780810147904","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}