7. The Sentiment of Doing Nothing: Stein’s Autobiographies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Instant of Love: Image and Title in Surrealist Cinema 17
6. 2. Revolutionary Time: Image and Title in Soviet Cinema 38
7. 3. Moments of Revelation: Dreyer’s Anachronistic Modernity 53
8. 4. Cinematography vs. the Cinema: Bresson’s Figures 81
9. 5. The Récit and the Figure: Blanchot’s Au moment voulu 101
10. 6. Saying “Nothing”: Persona as an Allegory of Psychoanalysis 125
11. 7. The Sentiment of Doing Nothing: Stein’s Autobiographies 146
12. 8. Out Via Nothing: Olson’s Genealogy of the Proper Poem 164
13. 9. Whoever Sees God Dies: Cinematic Epiphanies 188
14. 10. Theology vs. Psychoanalysis: Landow’s Wit 211
15. Notes 227
16. Bibliography 239
17. Index 247