Aesthetic Apprehensions - Silence and Absence in False Familiarities (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Transforming Literary Studies
Release date:	April 2021
Editors:	Lene M. Johannessen • Jena Habegger-Conti
Contributors:	Aidan Conti • Janne Stigen Drangsholt • Ingrid Galtung • Jennifer Ladino • Helle Ha konsen Lapeniene • Genevieve Liveley • Ruben Moi • Timothy Saunders
Dimensions:	227 x 162 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-79363-366-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-79363-366-5
Barcode:	9781793633668

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