New Book Publication: Aesthetic Apprehensions (2021)
Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silence and Absence in False Familiarities (2021) by Lene Johannessen and Jena Habegger-Conti (editors).
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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.聽Aesthetic Apprehensions聽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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Contributors: Aidan Conti,听Janne Stigen Drangsholt,听Ingrid Galtung,听Jennifer Ladino,听Helle H氓konsen Lapeniene,听Genevieve Liveley,听Ruben Moi,听Timothy Saunders,听Sara L. Spurgeon,听Zoltan Varga,听Nahum Welang
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
ISBN: 1793633673, 9781793633675
Length: 234 pages
Introduction: Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions, Jena Habegger-Conti and Lene M Johannessen
Chapter 1: Drawing聽Closer: Liminal Medievalism in the Post-punk Gothic, Aidan Conti
Chapter 2: A Chair is not a House: Sepulchral Intimacies in聽Sharp Objects,听Janne Stigen Drangsholt
Chapter 3: 鈥淭he Immortal Conception, the Perennial Theme鈥�: Reading the Modern Body in Willa Cather鈥檚 鈥淐oming, Aphrodite!鈥�, Ingrid Galtung
Chapter 4: Not Reading the Signs in Nick Drnaso鈥檚聽Sabrina,听Jena Habegger-Conti
Chapter 5: Apprehensive Figurations: Monuments in 鈥淪ite-Specific Performances鈥�, Lene M. Johannessen
Chapter 6: Apprehending the Past in the National Parks: False Familiarities, Aesthetic, Imaginaries, and Indigenous Erasures, Jennifer Ladino
Chapter 7: The Garrulous Eye: Allegorization of Rape in Djuna Barnes鈥� 鈥淩yder鈥�, Helle Ha虋konsen Lapeniene
Chapter 8: Metonymy and the 鈥淎rt of Reading the World Slowly鈥�, Genevieve Liveley
Chapter 9: Aesthetic Apprehensions, Hauntology and Just Literature, Ruben Moi
Chapter 10: Close Reading and Critical Immersion, Timothy Saunders
Chapter 11: Indians, Aliens, and Superheroes: Countering Silence and the Invisual in David Mack鈥檚聽Echo: Vision Quest,听Sara L. Spurgeon
Chapter 12: Listening to Ourselves: The Musician as Listener in Rafi Zabor鈥檚聽The Bear Comes Home,听Zoltan Varga
Chapter 13. Harlem to World and World to Harlem: Revisiting the Transnational Negotiations of Harlem Renaissance Narratives, Nahum Welang
