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Aesthetic Apprehensions
Silence and Absence in False Familiarities
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2021
Summary
Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities is a scholarly conversation about encounters between habitual customs of reading and seeing and their ruptures and ossifications. In closely connected discourses, the thirteen essays collected here set out to carefully probe the ways our aesthetic immersions are obfuscated by deep-seated epistemological and ideological apprehensions by focusing on how the tropology carried by silence, absence, and false familarity crystallize to define the gaps that open up. As they figure in the subtitle of this volume, the tropes may seem straightforward enough, but a closer examination of their function in relation to social, cultural, and political assumptions and gestalts reveal troubling oversights. Aesthetic Apprehensions comes to name the attempt at capturing the outlier meanings residing in habituated receptions as well as the uneasy relations that result from aesthetic practices already in place, emphasizing the kinds of thresholds of sense and sensation which occasion rupture and creativity. Such, after all, is the promise of the threshold, of the liminal: to encourage our leap into otherness, for then to find ourselves and our sensing again, and anew in novel comprehensions.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3366-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3367-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
214
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Drawing Closer No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2 A Chair Is Not a House No access Pages 17 - 30
Chapter 3 “The Immortal Conception, the Perennial Theme” No access Pages 31 - 46
Chapter 4 Not Reading the Signs in Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina No access Pages 47 - 62
Chapter 5 Apprehensive Figurations No access Pages 63 - 76
Chapter 6 Apprehending the Past in the National Parks No access Pages 77 - 96
Chapter 7 The Garrulous Eye No access Pages 97 - 112
Chapter 8 Metonymy and the “Art of Reading the World Slowly” No access Pages 113 - 126
Chapter 9 Aesthetic Apprehension, Hauntology, and Just Literature No access Pages 127 - 142
Chapter 10 Close Reading and Critical Immersion No access Pages 143 - 160
Chapter 11 Indians, Aliens, and Superheroes No access Pages 161 - 176
Chapter 12 Listening to Ourselves No access Pages 177 - 188
Chapter 13 Harlem to World and World to Harlem No access Pages 189 - 204
