Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film - Paperback

by Bruce F. Kawin (Author)

How do writers and filmmakers use repetition? It is useful when accenting an idea, but, in this original and thought-provoking book, Bruce F. Kawin argues that it serves a more important function as a manipulator of our sense of time and of the timeless. Brilliantly pitching the aesthetics of novelty against those of repetition, Kawin shows that the connections and rhythm of repetition offer revelations about literature and film, nature and memory, and time and art.

Author Biography

Bruce F. Kawin was born in 1945 in Los Angeles, California. He has an MFA in Creative Writing and Filmmaking and a PhD in Modern Literature and Film. He has been teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1985. His books include "Faulkner and Film," "Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film," and more. He is a poet, film critic, film historian, and literary critic.