Heather H. Yeung 楊希蒂

Bio

Heather H. Yeung 楊希蒂 teaches in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Dundee, where she also convenes the MLitt in English Studies. She is the Literature Lead at the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. Publications include Spatial Engagement with Poetry (2015) and On Literary Plasticity (2020). The archive of her poetic and artists’ book works is held in the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh.

Contributions

Venice to India and Back: Masked Foundations of Adrian Stokes’s Aesthetics of Whiteness

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“Venice,” writes Adrian Durham Stokes at the opening of his 1945 study of the city, “excels in blackness and whiteness; water brings commerce between them.” [1] This is a confident blasé opening gambit characteristic of the period and of this Faber and Faber contracted writer earlier heralded by Ezra Pound as one of the “only important writers” living. [2] Venice bothered Stokes throughout his writing and viewing life, yet Venice’s, and other, problematic whitenesses disappear in his writing...

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