{"product_id":"here-is-a-figure-grounding-literary-form-9780810147904","title":"Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The prostitute, the protester, the murder victim, the invalid, the layabout, the depressive: all are associated with lying down. Skewing and flattening the perpendicular axis that defines the human in Western philosophy, art, and humanist inquiry, these downward-directed figures' refusals or failures to hew to the moral and postural logics of uprightness enable a reassessment of subjectivity, ecological relation, and representation--that last of which is, after all, a process of standing-in-for. \u003ci\u003eHere Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form\u003c\/i\u003e works across an array of well-known and counter-canonical texts, showing that recumbent figures saturate the literary arts of the present and respond to the proliferation of contemporary forms of grounding, in all its meanings. Reading these figures in dialogue with critical Indigenous studies, disability studies, and horizontalist feminisms, Sarah Dowling reveals the potential in thinking with and through a position stretched out across, dependent on, and undetachable from the earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARAH DOWLING \u003c\/b\u003eis an assistant professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Victoria College at the University of Toronto and the author of\u003ci\u003e Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several books of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Entering Sappho.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901275115794,"sku":"9780810147904","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_435df454-4e70-4844-b543-ef87d2ad0149.jpg?v=1738419742","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/here-is-a-figure-grounding-literary-form-9780810147904","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}