Book of Interruptions

The Editors: David Hillman is lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Entrails: Belief, Scepticism and the Interior Body.Adam Phillips is a writer and psychoanalyst. Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charring Cross Hospital in London, he is the author of twelve books, and edited the sixteen-volume New Penguin Freud translation.

• Contents: David Hillman/Adam Phillips: Introduction – Marjorie Garber: Third Person Interruption – Hugh Haughton: Xanadu and Porlock: thoughts on composition and interruption – Stanley Cavell: Interruption and Repetition – Anne Alvarez: Autism and Uninterruptibility – Anita Sokolsky: Breathlessness and Interruption in Austen’s Emma and Godard’s Breathless – Gillian Beer: The Pink Frock and the Green Satin Night-Gown: interrupting death’s interruptions – Victor Burgin: Armide, a train of thought – John Wilkinson: A Poem for Liars – Joseph Rykwert: Building - at a price – Maud Ellmann: Fly, Interrupted – Stephen Tifft: Catharsis Interrupta – George Benjamin: ‘Interruptions’ – Joan Acocella: Breaking The Trance – Gabriel Josipovici: Interruption and the Last Part.