The Hand of the Interpreter Essays on Meaning after Theory

This collection of essays by scholars and artists of different disciplines and from different countries is designed to navigate the labyrinth of contemporary aesthetic ideologies with the aim of reassessing how we read - both the way in which texts touch us, and we them.
Theory has transformed texts into mute interlocutors exposed to infinite indeterminacy. While the response to this sense of silence that undermines meaning is often informed by a nostalgia for older notions of close reading, the essays in this volume work towards a re-evaluation of key subjects such as reader, writer and text. The contributors engage with topics such as digital books, popular culture, alternative ways of book-making, visual-verbal collaborations and thematic explorations of the hand in literature.

About the author

The Editors: G. F. Mitrano is the author of Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities (2005). She works on the intersection of critical thought, literature, and the visual arts. She has taught at the University of Maryland in Europe, the University of Cassino, and currently teaches language and cultural studies courses at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Eric Jarosinski is the author of several articles on links between language, architecture, politics and critical theory. He is currently an assistant professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches modern German literature, culture and theory.

Product details

• Assisted by: G. F. Mitrano (Editor), Eric Jarosinski (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.03.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9783039111183
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3911118-3
• Pages: 374
• Dimensions (packing): 15 x 2 x 22.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 530 g
• Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts > .3; Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts > 3