Rarity and the poetic : the gesture of small flowers / Harold Schweizer.
Rarity is a quality by which things - flowers, leaves, light, sound - fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. In this book, the author examines the imaginary or poetic dimensions of rarity. It comes about in the hushed spaces b...
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[Basinsgtoke] :
Palgrave Pivot,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The Rarity of Shade
- 2. The Rarity of the Gesture of Small Flowers
- 3. Rarity of Attention
- 4. The Rarity of Dying
- 5. The Density of Suffering
- 6. The Rarity of One's Own Death
- 7. The Rarity of Things
- 8. The Rarity of Accidents
- 9. The Rarity of the Beautiful.