Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries

Lene M. Johannessen, Mark Ledbetter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7199-9 (ISBN)

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This book is about the ways we make sense of the constant changes and interchanges of webs of meaning and being to which we are all connected. Working from textual, visual, historical, and contemporary fieldworks, each chapter presents a unique exercise on challenges of thinking through the figurations of imaginaries into their aesthetic forms.

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.

Lene Johannessen is professor of American literature at the University of Bergen. Mark Ledbetter is executive director of the Southern Humanities Council.

Acknowledgments

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Transforming Literary Studies
Co-Autor	Julie Adams, Susan G. Cumings, Dr. Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad
Zusatzinfo	5 BW Illustrations, 17 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-7199-9 / 1498571999
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-7199-9 / 9781498571999
Zustand	Neuware