Proustian Moments and the Politics of Aesthetic Pleasure in Literary Fiction
On the relation of the aesthetic experience in fiction and its ability to elicit pleasure in the reader. Both Lolita and Swann’s Way invite the reader into a politics of aesthetic pleasure, a value system that privileges the immediacy of perception while complicating the role of moral judgment.
The Liminality of Being: Mysticism, Thin places, and Thrownness.
On the sublime essence of liminality and how it can be enlightened by ancient mysticism, Celtic beliefs and elements of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy on being and time.
Modern Day Musings on the Prose Poem
How the boundary defying literary form can help cure our contemporary digital malaise.