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Christopher Middleton s writing in Crypto-Topographia falls within the genre of short prose, which Middleton defines as liminal, ludic and disruptive . Many of the texts concern places, singly or clustered, which offer their own secret store of time: lived time, signs of presence, whispers or howls. Time is stretched back, folded or pretended, and can transform a group of trees into the locus of a drama (A Close Shave With Sacrilege ). Sometimes place is supplanted by object: sliding carpets and material colour Dispersed among variously situated texts, history scintillates, not as a plan, but as an ensemble of glimpses. The epilogue records a strange episode of travel, The Gaze of the Turkish Mona Lisa, a masterly description of a Turkish lady, whom Middleton manages to depict, while refraining from looking at her."
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Middleton, Christopher
- ISBN: 9781900564977
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.64 x 0.31
- Number Of Pages: 112
- Publication Year: 2002
Language:
English