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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
Lene M. Johannessen is professor of American literature at the University of Bergen.Mark Ledbetter is executive director of the Southern Humanities Council.Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.Jena Habegger-Conti is associate professor of English at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Lene M. Johannessen is professor of American literature at the University of Bergen.Mark Ledbetter is executive director of the Southern Humanities Council.
