Clare Connors – författare

In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

Including pieces by creative critics as varied as Anne Carson, Jacques Derrida, Geoff Dyer, Hélène Cixous, Ali Smith, and John Cage, this anthology and guide celebrates the formal and intellectual inventiveness of works which also demonstrate a deep fidelity to the writing or art they address. The Anthology is of interest to all students, teachers and critics of literature and creative writing, and especially those students who are required to write critical essays. All 14 texts included respond innovatively to the question: How do we write criticism? As examples of academic critical writing they are all sympathetic to works whose aim is to change the ways in which we see and describe our world.Key Features• Unique as an anthology of and guide to creative critical writing• Demonstrates a range of ways to write critically and creatively • Extensive introduction & explanatory headnotes to each textContents Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments; John Cage, from ‘Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?’; Anne Carson, ‘Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)’; Hélène Cixous, ‘Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off’; Jacques Derrida ‘Aphorism Countertime’; Geoff Dyer, from Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence; Benjamin Friedlander, ‘Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism’; Peter Gizzi, ‘Correspondences of the Book’; Kevin Kopelson, ‘Music Lessons’; Denise Riley, ‘Lyric Selves’; Eve Sedgwick, ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’; Ali Smith, ‘Green’; John Wilkinson, ‘Imperfect Pitch’; Sarah Wood, ‘Anew Again’.Stephen Benson and Clare Connors teach in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Stephen Benson is the author of Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory (2002) and Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction (2006), and the editor of Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale (2008). Clare Connors is the author of Force from Nietzsche to Derrida and Literary Theory: A Beginner’s Guide (2010).

Drawing on one-to-one guided conversations with disabled children and follow-up interviews with their parents and siblings, this volume takes an in-depth look at the effects of disability on disabled children. Approaching this neglected subject through the disabled child's perspective, it considers:* disabled children's understanding of disability* the ways in which children negotiate the experience of disability in their everyday lives* children's perceptions of their relationships with professionals and their knowledge and views of service provision* children's aspirations for the future and their views on the type of support which might help achieve them* siblings' perceptions of the effects on them of having a disabled brother or sister.Informed by the social model of disability, Clare Connors and Kirsten Stalker identify and draw out the implications of their findings for social work and health services. Illustrating effective ways of communicating directly with disabled children, this will prove an invaluable resource for academics, policy makers and practitioners working with disabled children in health and social care settings.

Rescuing the subject from deadly dry theorists and -isms, Clare Connors focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the response of theorists. Using selections from works including poetry by Christina Rossetti and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, Connors unites theory with practice, revealing how enjoyable it is to think about reading.