Acknowledgments
1. Acquisitions: Mapping World and Work
an Acrostic for Mavis
Mavis, osmosis, & the Artful Dodger
the medium calling the tune?
why Degas?
Mavis, the (moving) pictures, and music
borderblur
beyond our current way of seeing
2. Is it Dead or Alive?
Gallant’s shining language: wholeness, harmony, and radiance
"the rest is just rice pudding": compression & expansion
"not mad, not drowning, not Ophelia": a poetics of rhythm
3. The Oratorical Triad: "Like Looking Into the Sun"
upstairs & downstairs: the banal & the barbarism
the calf & the ox: comical cleavage
poetic speech & the heard word
metre and the art of sinking — & rising again
visual overlays: page & screen
an ellipsoidal narrative rhythm through which ideas rush: where import lies
4. Dissonance & Syncopation
"silent, flickering areas of light": making strange
"tougher than bulldogs": the odd man out
"tum titty": adjacency pairs
frame-breaking: The Real and the Reel
Surfeit and Lack
5. Text/Image Borderblur, & Cubist Realism
"you paint not what you see but what you know is there"
never happier than in an artist’s studio: intersections
"taking apart & putting together"
a fraught realism
6. Who Is I and When Is Here?
simultanism vs clocktime
the subject-centred perceptual apparatus
double vision: from short cut to short circuit
7. "How Can You Tell What Somebody’s Worth? What’s the Measure?"
Works Cited
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