Brian Macaskill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Macaskill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Macaskill |
| SIGNATURE | MACASKILL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Carroll University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Recycling topology as topos in music and narrative
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
The Logic of Coprophilia
art of Samuel Beckett is conceptually framed by the possibilities of the impossible; or, as J.M. Coetzee puts it, The art of Samuel Beckett has become an art of zero, as we all know. We also know that an art of zero is impossible (45). Beckett's writing-much of it stylistically composed under erasure, as it were-achieves a coincidence of opposing impulses that for Coetzee permit[s] a fiction of net zero: the impulse towards conjuration, the impul…
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The Logic of Coprophilia
art of Samuel Beckett is conceptually framed by the possibilities of the impossible; or, as J.M. Coetzee puts it, The art of Samuel Beckett has become an art of zero, as we all know. We also know that an art of zero is impossible (45). Beckett's writing-much of it stylistically composed under erasure, as it were-achieves a coincidence of opposing impulses that for Coetzee permit[s] a fiction of net zero: the impulse towards conjuration, the impul…
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Recycling topology as topos in music and narrative
Art (3 works) · Literature (2 works) · 1948-1994 (1 work) · 20th century (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Apartheid in literature (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Combinatorics (1 work) · Composition (language (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)