Unlike Genet, whose erotically charged work unfolds in prison cells and public toilets, Leduc's sexual frankness was greeted with the same reflexive French literary chauvinism that accompanied De Beauvoir's The Second Sex in 1949.
What Wallace was opposed to was cheap, reflexive irony, not literary irony, but neither Lipsky's own book nor its resultant movie are terribly concerned with the literary; they present a Wallace happier to talk about Alanis Morissette than John Barth.
Borisenko points out that much of the resistance to the new translation has been purely reflexive, the legacy of a literary culture that invests canonical translations with an "infallible, almost sacred authority" and sees any retranslation as a form of aggression.
December 11 , 1908Porto, Portugal April 2, 2015 Porto, Portugal Manoel de Oliveira, in full Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (born December 11 , 1908 Porto, Portugal died April 2, 2015, Porto), Portuguese filmmaker, known for richly meditative and often self-reflexive films that were frequently inspired by literary and theatrical works.
Deconstruction is a reflexive philosophy: it makes the very notion of literary analysis a self-revealing, self-questioning, quasi-poetic creation, undoing the traditional hierarchy by which the literary critic is the handmaiden of the creative writer.
The reason this space for genuine "social cost" still exists within metamodernism is that poet-critics like Ashton read poetry exclusively through the dialectics of distance and closeness -- reflexive contemplation and risible complicity -- that poststructuralist literary theory has thrust upon them.
And that neoconservatism, whatever merits it once had as a corrective to liberal wishfulness and the amorality of realpolitik, long ago stiffened into a posture of reflexive moral belligerence about everything from foreign policy to literary criticism?
2. "The Darjeeling Limited" (2007, Wes Anderson): As ever with the films of Wes Anderson — the best new American director of the last twenty years — love and death, comedy and tragedy, comfort and adventure, understanding and opacity, style and substance fuse in a modernism of personal and reflexive cinema and a classicism of grand and subtle literary emotion.
2. "The Darjeeling Limited" (2007, Wes Anderson): As ever with the films of Wes Anderson the best new American director of the last twenty years love and death, comedy and tragedy, comfort and adventure, understanding and opacity, style and substance fuse in a modernism of personal and reflexive cinema and a classicism of grand and subtle literary emotion.
And so are Ian Ogelvie's colleague, the charmingly narcissistic Marisa Chu, with a ruby stud in her nose and an eye for the main chance, and Bonnie's teenage baby sitter, Cress, who, "as a practicing thief, a reflexive gender warrior and a borderline moron... was well equipped for literary criticism".
