...). The experimental “engagements with the social survey” she examines in this chapter “are, above all else, an attempt to make data move”—and this way of conceiving of the generic conversion from social scientific work driven by flattened, immobilized data to the aesthetic negotiation of that work as one based...

... O'Meally Robert . New York and Oxford : Oxford UP , 1994 . 244 - 60 . "So BLACK, SO BLUE": RALPH ELLISON, LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND THE BEBOP AESTHETIC MICHAEL BORSHUK, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY In late 1958, Esquire magazine commissioned Ralph Ellison to write a piece...

...Frances L. Restuccia This essay reads To the Lighthouse through the lens of Giorgio Agamben's Pauline conception of messianic time and suggests that we reconsider the genre of modernist novels in light of such a “messianic aesthetic.” Insofar as To the Lighthouse presents chronological time...

...Martha J. Koehler The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815. By Marshall David . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2005 . 272 pp. $50.00. COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience...

...Dianne Mitchell Rachel Eisendrath , Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . Copyright © 2020 by University of Oklahoma 2020 Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847214...

... on the limits of our knowledge about objects as the philosophical context for the rise of empiricist aesthetics. Beginning with Joseph Addison's “Pleasures of the Imagination” Spectator papers, Zitin identifies an antiformalism that originates in Locke's insistence that we not confuse the identity of objects...

...Len Gutkin [email protected] Jonathan Freedman , The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity...

... these philosophical and aesthetic distinctions. In doing so it demonstrates how interwar Marxist debates about the representation of object-ness in avant-garde literature might help assess the theoretical viability of the new materialist thought for literary studies today. Marla Zubel is a PhD candidate...

... as the best representation of modernist aspira- tions to achieve aesthetic immediacy, but recent postmodern reinterpretations by art historians have described cubist collage as a reaction to the modernist desire for aesthetic immediacy in that such works in fact create multiple fields of real- ity...

...Maggie McGowan Works Cited Adorno Theordor . 2020 . Aesthetic Theory . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Goodman Kevis . 2004 . Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...

...Siân E. White This article explores how Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September relies on a spatial aesthetic to convey interpersonal and political tensions, corresponding with the novelistic trend toward greater historical and political engagement that recent scholars have deemed “late...

... Yu, whose One Hundred Chinese Silences (2016) comprises parodic rewritings of poems that try to engage with the Chinese aesthetic, the representation of China in American poetry amounts to an “orientalist tradition” that “sees China as a source of unchanging aesthetic traits fixed in a remote past...

...Carl Joseph Swanson This article explores Colson Whitehead's Zone One and the zombie narrative genre and outlines some of the ways each illuminates structural, generic, and aesthetic qualities in the other. Contrary to popular critical apologies, Zone One is largely a conventional zombie narrative...

... of memoirs by modernist writers is between the celebrated or elevated subject matter and the ordinary or everyday approaches of the modernist aesthetic. In some memoirs, particularly those authored by celebrity modernists themselves, including Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, and Wyndham Lewis, the high-art...

..., seen in light of the ambiguous textual details or “advance mentions” anticipating it, turns out to radicalize the formal or properly aesthetic tension between duration and event, sequence and structure, that animates structuralist method no less than certain varieties of distant or machine reading...

... work Guerrillas as marking a shift toward what it terms postcolonial naturalism as a way of both distancing the author’s aesthetic from the realism of a depleted romantic nationalism and anticipating, through its own codification of affect, an as yet unnamable globalization. Copyright © 2017...

...W. D. Phillips Aesthetic histories of the stag film tend to place it in a straightforward lineage of pornographic imagery such that the film genre emerges more or less fully formed. Discursive histories, however, have noted that the term does not concretize in relation to the film form until...

... with lingering questions, resulting in an awkward or unstable aesthetic experience for audiences Copyright © 2018 by University of Oklahoma 2018 William Shakespeare Erving Goffman Erich Auerbach Richard III stigma disability ...

... the roaming romance of his vampires, Adam and Eve, who are both cultured cosmopolitans and endangered species seeking refuge in an increasingly uninhabitable world. Adam and Eve keep alive forms of intimacy and aesthetic appreciation on the verge of extinction even as they adapt to ecological crises...

... calls the “negative dialectic of race.” At the level of the protagonist, Shuffle ’s deliberate adherence to the conventions of the classical bildungsroman but failed achievement of its aesthetic-spiritual ideal of bildung leads to a breakdown of the dialectic that would reconcile Black history...