Charles Lock
Charles Lock– (født 15. april 1955)
Biografi på Wikipedia
Er en britisk litteraturforsker samt professor emeritus i engelsk litteratur ved Københavns Universitet.
Citater
- "In the very citing of words we must exclude, overlook or even deliberately ignore other words."
- "Diversions and Digressions: What Happens in the Reading of A Glastonbury Romance" (2019).
- A voice is what an image promises: the silence of the image is the disappointment of that promise.
- Those Lips: On Cowper (Ekphrasis in Parentheses)
- "There are two possible answers to this question and both of them begin with an 'm'."
- Said during class to remind students that any part of language can be said to be either a metaphor or a metonymy acc. to Roman Jakobson
- "All language is troped, which is to say that no word has precisely one 'literal' meaning."
- Lock’s Key to Reading (revised 2006).
- "Library buildings variously lead me to think of warehouses, lighthouses, cathedrals, palaces, prisons: strange prisons whose every inmate is a means of escape."
- Twenty-four Books from the Royal Library selected by Charles Lock (2014).
- "The study of prehistory may yet lead us to the post-human."
- Petroglyphs in and out of perspective
- "Those who look at scripts, instead of “merely reading” them, will discover that there is nothing
neutral in their constitution and that their use can never be wholly innocent."
- On Roman Letters and Other Stories
- The challenge of an icon, its elenchos, is that it be not just looked at but kissed: beyond the ocular, the oscular proof.
- Iconic Space and the Materiality of the Sign