Drew Milne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Drew Milne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Drew |
| FAMILY NAME | Milne |
| SIGNATURE | MILNE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRH, UK. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Poetics
Notes on ‘Lichen’
‘Notes on “Lichen”’ develops a lichenised homage to Susan Sontag’s ‘Notes on “Camp”’, rewilding Sontag’s essay to suggest a poetics of Lichen, a poetics associated symbiotically with the manifestos of Donna Haraway. This Lichen poetics engages with questions of symbiosis and solidarity, mutualism and collective voicing, sketching the turn away from humanist poetics as a critical characteristic of contemporary ecopoetics. From Conceptual Art to co…
Nuclear Song
The argument of ‘Nuclear Song’ is pursued at various extremities of the damage done to poetic imagination by what the poem never quite names as ‘the’ nuclear. ‘Nuclear Song’ opens with an epigraph asking how far human agency, even the resources of poetic song, are complicit with anthropogenic radioactivity. Is there a poetic grammar for representing nuclear plumes and umbrellas, the yellow cake and toxic clouds of nuclear trauma that radiate from…
Poetry After Hiroshima
This essay explores the faultlines, poetic pressures and social structures of feeling determining poetry "after" Hiroshima. Nuclear bombs, accidents and waste pose theoretical and poetic challenges. The argument outlines a model of nuclear implicature that reworks Gricean conversational implicature. Nuclear implicature helps to describe ways in which poems "represent" nuclear problems implicitly rather than explicitly. Metonymic, metaphorical, an…
Nuclear Theory Degree Zero, With Two Cheers for Derrida
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Performance over being
Allegories of complicity
Modern Critical Thought
Poems from Optic Fire
Marxist literary theory
Introduction. Part I: Terry Eagleton:. Introduction. Part II: Drew Milne. 1. Marx and Engels. 2. Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch (1911): V. I. Lenin. 3. The Formalist School of Peotry and Marxism: Leon Trotsky. 4. Corcerning the Relationship of the Basis and Superstructures: V. N. Volosinov. 5. Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia (1929). Addendum to 'The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire' (1938): Walter Benjamin. 6. Marx…
Nuclear Theory Degree Zero, With Two Cheers for Derrida
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Poems from Optic Fire
Marxist literary theory
Introduction. Part I: Terry Eagleton:. Introduction. Part II: Drew Milne. 1. Marx and Engels. 2. Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch (1911): V. I. Lenin. 3. The Formalist School of Peotry and Marxism: Leon Trotsky. 4. Corcerning the Relationship of the Basis and Superstructures: V. N. Volosinov. 5. Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia (1929). Addendum to 'The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire' (1938): Walter Benjamin. 6. Marx…
Modern Critical Thought
Allegories of complicity
Performance over being
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Nuclear Song
The argument of ‘Nuclear Song’ is pursued at various extremities of the damage done to poetic imagination by what the poem never quite names as ‘the’ nuclear. ‘Nuclear Song’ opens with an epigraph asking how far human agency, even the resources of poetic song, are complicit with anthropogenic radioactivity. Is there a poetic grammar for representing nuclear plumes and umbrellas, the yellow cake and toxic clouds of nuclear trauma that radiate from…
Poetry After Hiroshima
This essay explores the faultlines, poetic pressures and social structures of feeling determining poetry "after" Hiroshima. Nuclear bombs, accidents and waste pose theoretical and poetic challenges. The argument outlines a model of nuclear implicature that reworks Gricean conversational implicature. Nuclear implicature helps to describe ways in which poems "represent" nuclear problems implicitly rather than explicitly. Metonymic, metaphorical, an…
Nuclear Theory Degree Zero, With Two Cheers for Derrida
Notes on ‘Lichen’
‘Notes on “Lichen”’ develops a lichenised homage to Susan Sontag’s ‘Notes on “Camp”’, rewilding Sontag’s essay to suggest a poetics of Lichen, a poetics associated symbiotically with the manifestos of Donna Haraway. This Lichen poetics engages with questions of symbiosis and solidarity, mutualism and collective voicing, sketching the turn away from humanist poetics as a critical characteristic of contemporary ecopoetics. From Conceptual Art to co…
Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Poetics
Art (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Poetry (6 works) · Poetics (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)