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Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries
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Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries considers aesthetic imaginaries as they constitute and are constituted by and in our shared realities. With contributions from twelve scholars working in the fields of literary studies, visual studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and digital culture, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to “aesthetic imaginaries,” which tests the conceptual potential from an array of perspectives and methodologies. It probes into the continuous creation and re-creation of figures for the future that invariably nod to their pasts, whether with a spirit of respect, disgust, hope, or play. It is particularly in the intersections between ideas and formations of “shared realities” and what Ranjan Ghosh has called “entangled figurations” that the full and intricate promise of the aesthetic imaginary as analytic and conceptual prism comes into its own. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, “knots” of various aesthetic imaginaries disseminate and manifest variously across place and time, to weave and interweave again, and to offer themselves in each instance as contours-so-far of cultural and aesthetic histories.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging
Lene Johannessen
Part One: Image
Chapter 1. The Aesthetic Imaginary and the Case of Ernie Gehr
Asbjørn Grønstad
Chapter 2. Panorama, Glitch, and Photospheres: Machine Vision and the Ghost in the Machine
Scott Rettberg
Chapter 3. Museum, Magic, Memory: A Curatorial Aesthetic Imaginary
Julie Adams
Chapter 4. Transcultural Literacy: Reading the “Other,” Shifting Aesthetic Imaginaries
Jena Habegger-Conti
Chapter 5. Tomas van Houtryve's Shadow Imaginaries
Øyvind Va°gnes
Part Two: Text
Chapter 6. “Syon Gostly”: Crafting Aesthetic Imaginaries and Stylistics of Existence in Medieval Devotional Culture
Laura Saeveit Miles
Chapter 7. David Jones, The BBC and British Identities: Negotiating Social and Aesthetic Imaginaries
Erik Tonning
Chapter 8. Technology, Visual Perception and the Aesthetic Imaginary in The Poetry of Alan Gillis and Sine´ad Morrissey
Anne Karhio
Chapter 9. Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in The Attic
Lene Johannessen
Chapter 10. Convent and Convention: Imagining Birth-Mothers in Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life
John McLeod
Chapter 11. The Textual Oddbody: Ripp(L)ing Aesthetic Imaginaries in Service of Justice—
OR—Reader, Take Your Time
Susan G. Cumings
Afterword: “In the ‘Imaginary Garden’ the ‘Toads’ are Imaginary too: An Aesthetic of Desire, an Ethics of Precious”
Mark Ledbetter
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | Dec 31 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9798216282006 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 5 BW Illustrations, 17 BW Photos |
| Series | Transforming Literary Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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