Still Loitering

Loiterature, perhaps Ross Chambers's most famous book, prescribes slow and careful reading practices but also quick-witted analysis. This collection draws together tributes, essays and critical responses to his wide-ranging work from Romanticism to the present, all demonstrating, through practice, the generative value of «loitering».

In late October 2017, the profoundly sad news of Ross Chambers's passing reached Australia. Friends and colleagues scattered around the globe mourned the loss of a person of great 'humanity and humility', one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. This book is a tribute to Chambers's life and work and to his legacy among scholars in the global French studies, comparative literature and cultural studies communities. It is also rooted in the Australian context he left behind but never really left, a context he indelibly marked and where he still lives on.

Loiterature, perhaps Chambers's most famous book, prescribes slow and careful reading practices but also quick-witted analysis. This collection draws together tributes, essays and critical responses to his wide-ranging work from Romanticism to the present, all demonstrating, through practice, the generative value of 'loitering'. While melancholy and nostalgia are inescapable themes in this collection, loitering is also about imminent departures. And his work encourages us to explore that unexpected turn, possibly leading us in unforeseeable directions. This book suggests a few ways in which he will travel with us into the future.

Autorentext

Valentina Gosetti is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of New England, Australia, following her years as the Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellow in French and Comparative Literature at St Anne s College, University of Oxford. Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research has focused on Boris Vian and, in common with Ross Chambers, intertextuality and Charles Baudelaire.

Klappentext

In late October 2017, the profoundly sad news of Ross Chambers s passing reached Australia. Friends and colleagues scattered around the globe mourned the loss of a person of great humanity and humility , one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. This book is a tribute to Chambers s life and work and to his legacy among scholars in the global French studies, comparative literature and cultural studies communities. It is also rooted in the Australian context he left behind but never really left, a context he indelibly marked and where he still lives on. Loiterature, perhaps Chambers s most famous book, prescribes slow and careful reading practices but also quick-witted analysis. This collection draws together tributes, essays and critical responses to his wide-ranging work from Romanticism to the present, all demonstrating, through practice, the generative value of loitering . While melancholy and nostalgia are inescapable themes in this collection, loitering is also about imminent departures. And his work encourages us to explore that unexpected turn, possibly leading us in unforeseeable directions. This book suggests a few ways in which he will travel with us into the future.

Inhalt

CONTENTS: Valentina Gosetti/Alistair Rolls Introduction: Loitering On Anne Freadman: Ross Chambers: A Life in Books Jarrod Hayes: Ross Chambers's Transpacific Moves and French Cultural Studies: To Sandy Petrey, with Love Alistair Rolls: The Ethics of Reading in the Double Negative Murray Pratt: «The End of Dialogue»: Story and Situation in Ali Smith's Autumn Greg Hainge: The Uncanny Hinterland of Things: On Chambers's An Atmospherics of the City and Speculative Realism Joe Hardwick: House of Mirrors: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction in François Ozon's Dans la maison (2012) Sophie Patrick: Houellebecq's Women as Melancholic Subjects Valentina Gosetti: Ross Chambers, Beyond Baudelaire: In Defence of (Transloitering) Poetry Ross Chambers: A Bibliography