Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime write by Andrew Slade. This book was released on 2007. Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Original Scholarly Monograph
The Force of the Sublime
The Force of the Sublime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Force of the Sublime write by Richard Andrew Slade. This book was released on 2003. The Force of the Sublime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film
The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film write by Pansy Duncan. This book was released on 2015-11-19. The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film brings this unlikely pair into sustained dialogue, arguing that the interdisciplinary body of scholarship currently emerging under the rubric of "affect theory" may be unexpectedly enriched by an encounter with the field that has become its critical other. Across a series of radical re-reappraisals of canonical postmodern texts, from Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism to David Cronenberg's Crash, Duncan shows that the same postmodern archive that has proven resistant to strongly subject-based and object-oriented emotions, like anger and sadness, proves all too congenial to a series of idiosyncratic, borderline emotions, from knowingness, fascination and bewilderment to boredom and euphoria. The analysis of these emotions, in turn, promises to shake up scholarly consensus on two key counts. On the one hand, it will restructure our sense of the place and role of emotion in a critical enterprise that has long cast it as the stodgy, subjective sister of a supposedly more critically interesting and politically productive affect. On the other, it will transform our perception of postmodernism as a now-historical aesthetic and theoretical moment, teaching us to acknowledge more explicitly and to name more clearly the emotional life that energizes it.
Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics
Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics write by Tim Lawrence. This book was released on 2018-04-19. Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.
Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing
Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing write by Kiff Bamford. This book was released on 2012-06-14. Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This original study offers a timely reconsideration of the work of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard in relation to art, performance and writing. How can we write about art, whilst acknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies translations of both media and temporality? That is the question that persistently dogs Lyotard's own writings on art, and to which this book responds through reference to artists from the recently-formed canon of performance art history, including the myths of seminal figures Marina Abramovic and Vito Acconci, and the controlled documentation of Gina Pane's actions. Through the unstable, untranslatable element that Lyotard calls the figural, his thought is brought to bear on attempts to write a history of performance art and to question the paradoxically prescriptive demand for rules to govern 're-performance'. Kiff Bamford contextualises Lyotard's writings and approach with reference to both his contemporaries, including Deleuze and Kristeva, and the contemporary art about which they wrote, whilst arguing for the pertinence of Lyotard's provocations today.
