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Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silence and Absence in False Familiarities

Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silence and Absence in False Familiarities

Conti, Aidan
Johannessen, Lene M.
Habegger-Conti, Jena

Hardcover

Series: Transforming Literary Studies

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1793633665
ISBN13: 9781793633668
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 12 2021
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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