Resultaten voor 'peter boxall'

1. Peter Boxall
2. Peter Nicholls

Beckett and Leopardi

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The authors suggest that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence. In doing so, the Element looks past the impasse – between going on and not going on – that threatens to forestall imaginative possibilities for both writers.

1. Peter Boxall
2. Peter Nicholls

Beckett and Leopardi

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The authors suggest that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence. In doing so, the Element looks past the impasse – between going on and not going on – that threatens to forestall imaginative possibilities for both writers.

1. Peter Boxall

The Prosthetic Imagination

'The Prosthetic Imagination is at once a majestic work of literary history and a formidable work of conceptual criticism. Through readings that display striking range and agility, Peter Boxall reconstructs the formal and historical development of the novel as the development of artificial life. Moving from More to Beckett, from Cervantes to Bolaño, this book delineates a remarkable genealogy for the interrelation of prosthetics and novelistic aesthetics, showing how fiction's philosophical entanglements with the body have informed its conditions of possibility.' David James, University of Birmingham

Thinking Poetry

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry, and some of the most significant poets working in English today, to offer a critical assessment of the nature and function of poetic thought. It was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

1. Peter Boxall

The Possibility of Literature

'The bracing lucidity of Boxall's prose can guide us, captivated, through books we may not know while bringing seasoned masterworks before us as if we'd never read them before-from the 'immensity' of the 'mere' in James to the Proustian corpus as its own model of rereading, from the ontological drama of tautology in late DeLillo to the implant and dismantlement of Dickensian realist scaffolds in post-millennial British novels. Even as its founding conditions are probed anew, literary writing-honoring the 'hinge' of Boxall's title-opens startling cognitive possibilities charted here in essays of high and liberating intelligence.' Garrett Stewart, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa

1. Peter Boxall
2. John Purcell

Strategy and Human Resource Management

Peter Boxall is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. His work on strategic HRM and employee well-being has appeared in a variety of international journals. John Purcell is Visiting Professor at the Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick, UK.