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Inceptions is an erudite, original investigation into the conditions of possibility of works of literature: how formal language evolves from the silence or noisiness of the world. The investigation is as much ethical and erotic as it is formal. Returning to the origins of texts restores the moment when the text was all potential; this revives the moment of freedom to our lives and subjectivities. The book will be of interest to scholars of each of Ohi's authors; Ohi is a match (to name three of them) for George Eliot's complexity, Henry James's subtlety, and Wallace Stevens's abstraction. -- John Limon, Williams College

Inceptions is an erudite, original investigation into the conditions of possibility of works of literature: how formal language evolves from the silence or noisiness of the world. The investigation is as much ethical and erotic as it is formal. Returning to the origins of texts restores the moment when the text was all potential; this revives the moment of freedom to our lives and subjectivities. The book will be of interest to scholars of each of Ohi's authors; Ohi is a match (to name three of them) for George Eliot's complexity, Henry James's subtlety, and Wallace Stevens's abstraction.---John Limon, Williams College,

Inceptions is an erudite, original investigation into the conditions of possibility of works of literature: how formal language evolves from the silence or noisiness of the world. The investigation is as much ethical and erotic as it is formal. Returning to the origins of texts restores the moment when the text was all potential; this revives the moment of freedom to our lives and subjectivities. The book will be of interest to scholars of each of Ohi's authors; Ohi is a match (to name three of them) for George Eliot's complexity, Henry James's subtlety, and Wallace Stevens's abstraction.--John Limon, Williams College

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Kevin Ohi is Professor of English at Boston College.He is the author of three previous books, including, most recently, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission.

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