Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-31
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt446 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransforming Literary Studies
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498571999

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AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Aesthetic Imaginaries EmergingLene JohannessenPart One: ImageChapter 1. The Aesthetic Imaginary and the Case of Ernie Gehr Asbjørn GrønstadChapter 2. Panorama, Glitch, and Photospheres: Machine Vision and the Ghost in the MachineScott RettbergChapter 3. Museum, Magic, Memory: A Curatorial Aesthetic ImaginaryJulie AdamsChapter 4. Transcultural Literacy: Reading the “Other,” Shifting Aesthetic Imaginaries Jena Habegger-ContiChapter 5. Tomas van Houtryve's Shadow Imaginaries Øyvind Va°gnesPart Two: TextChapter 6. “Syon Gostly”: Crafting Aesthetic Imaginaries and Stylistics of Existence in Medieval Devotional CultureLaura Saeveit MilesChapter 7. David Jones, The BBC and British Identities: Negotiating Social and Aesthetic ImaginariesErik TonningChapter 8. Technology, Visual Perception and the Aesthetic Imaginary in The Poetry of Alan Gillis and Sine´ad Morrissey Anne KarhioChapter 9. Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in The AtticLene JohannessenChapter 10. Convent and Convention: Imagining Birth-Mothers in Dermot Bolger’s A Second LifeJohn McLeodChapter 11. The Textual Oddbody: Ripp(L)ing Aesthetic Imaginaries in Service of Justice—OR—Reader, Take Your Time Susan G. CumingsAfterword: “In the ‘Imaginary Garden’ the ‘Toads’ are Imaginary too: An Aesthetic of Desire, an Ethics of Precious” Mark LedbetterIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Demonstrating that the aesthetic imaginary cannot be confined to just one category, discipline, or period, the thoughtful and thought-provoking discussions of different kinds of texts in this volume present the reader with a range of inroads into the meanings and applications of a concept that proves to be not just helpful but indispensable. This is a significant contribution to literary and cultural studies as well as to film studies.