dc.contributor.author | Wright, Laurence Stuart | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-15T08:59:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-15T08:59:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wright, L.S. 2016. Retentir: a poetics of the railway station. Scrutiny2, 21(3):37-56. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2016.1190397] | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1812-5441 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1753-5409 (Online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2016.1190397 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/23708 | |
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dc.description.abstract | This article explores a poetics of the railway station, focused mainly on South African examples, to show how the experience of railway travel can yield moments of enhanced being, sometimes captured in poems. Referencing philosophical insights from Henri Bergson and Gaston Bachelard, the piece suggests that railway stations deliver psycho-physical experiences hospitable to the compelling images poets occasionally develop from them. Of particular importance is the quality of Minkowskian retentir (reverberation), which nudges railway station images away from the older Romantic opposition between "going" and "being" towards the multiple, shimmering, trans-historical equivocations characteristic of modernity. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
dc.subject | Retentir | |
dc.subject | railway poetry | |
dc.subject | Henri Bergson | |
dc.subject | dur�e | |
dc.subject | Gaston Bachelard | |
dc.subject | Winston Churchill | |
dc.subject | Eugen� Minkowski | |
dc.subject | Edward Thomas | |
dc.subject | Chris Mann | |
dc.subject | Wallace Stevens | |
dc.subject | Pauline Melunsky | |
dc.subject | Phillip de Bruyn | |
dc.subject | Zola Sikiti | |
dc.subject | Ezra Pound | |
dc.subject | Claude Monet | |
dc.subject | Pierre Auguste Renoir | |
dc.subject | Jean Renoir | |
dc.title | Retentir: a poetics of the railway station | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.researchID | 12275158 - Wright, Laurence Stuart | |