Near, Variations

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Near, Variations

How close can you get to something through writing? What does depth look like in narrative – placing one object in front of another? Can a writer manipulate their position in relation to what they’re writing about, perhaps to disappear entirely from view? What happens when a subject stands parallel to another? What if the gaze is completely flipped and inverted? Alternatively, what if you embody the object of your study – what if it sits within you?

Using a prompt as a unifying parameter, the eleven essays in Near, Variations attempt to reconsider written description as a rival to visual depiction. The texts devise strategies to achieve proximity to their subject, at the level of content as well as form. Spanning art, music, poetry and film, the texts in Near, Variations are also enquiries into what constitutes an essay, slipping in and out of different critical registers, circling an elusive objective mode, often rejecting it altogether. So framed, Near, Variations is a window, and just as a window is both seen through as well as looked out of, as often as writing an essay is about its subject, it is also about its author, and as often as it is about its author, it is also about its reader.

Contents
Mute Codex - Claire Mason
Someone else even more uneasy - Elvira Højberg
Between Ellipses - Nick Popham
When Script Moves in Measured Breath - Niyoshi Shah
Mise-en-scène - Anastasia Freygang
A Chronic Stare - Hannah Nussbaum
The Absentee - Oliver Williams
After Bertillon - Chloe Evans
The body is just an entry point - Flavia Gimenes
How to Read in the Dark - Olivia Fletcher
Index. see Pale Fire - Urshita Gautam
Afterwards: reminders and run-ons - Chris Fite-Wassilak

ISBN 978-1-910642-38-2