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Instead of modernity
The Western canon and the incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850-75)Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
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139,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 13.10.2020 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526147837 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 320 |
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Beschreibungen
This book revisits the claim that a key dimension of cultural modernity – understood as a turn to the autonomy of the signs and the erasure of the 'face of man' - arose in the mid-nineteenth century. It presents an alternative to that obsession, focusing instead on the aesthetic appreciation of forms through which connections are realised across place and time. The book is one of few to offer a comparative approach to numerous major writers and artists of this period over diverse countries. Specifically, the comparative approach overcomes the constitutively ambiguous relation between the modern and the Hispanic. The Hispanic is often imagined as at once foundational for and excluded from the modern world. Its reincorporation into the story of the mid-century unsettles the notion of modernity. The book offers instead an experiment in writing, tracing commonalities across place and time, and drawing on mid-century expressions of such likenesses.
At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with “modernity” that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies.
Introduction: From modernity to the aesthetic appreciation of history
1 Meeting: Coming together and taking shape
2 Departure: To leap beyond yet nearer bring
3 Sacrifice: Everyone must die
4 Repose: Forms of shared distraction
Index
1 Meeting: Coming together and taking shape
2 Departure: To leap beyond yet nearer bring
3 Sacrifice: Everyone must die
4 Repose: Forms of shared distraction
Index
Andrew Ginger is Chair of Spanish and Head of School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music at the University of Birmingham
When all that was solid melted into air... For decades,
intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in
thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped and underpinned
their most influential thoughts, its legacy insinuated into institutionalized
theories of culture. In this new book, that vision implodes, as if in a
cultural supernova, its exceptionalism and limitations exposed. The story of
modernity fades before a spectacle of linkages, stretching from and into the
depths of history, the breadths of place. And, in a parallel substitution, the
vast territories of the former Spanish Empire’s thread through the narrative,
rather than lurking on the peripheries, no longer just the fallen founders of
modernity.
<i>Instead of Modernity </i>goes to the very heart of comparative cultural
study: the question of what happens when intimate, dynamic connections are made
over place and time, what it is to feel at home amid the lavish diversity of
culture. This ambitious interdisciplinary book reconsiders foundational figures
of the modern western canon, from Darwin to Cameron, Baudelaire to Whistler. It
weaves together brain images from France, preserved insects from the Americas,
glass in London, poetry from Argentina, paintings from Spain. Flaubert,
Whitman, and Nietzsche find themselves with Hostos from Puerto Rico and Gorriti
from Argentina. The flotsam and jetsam of history – optical toys from Madrid –
sit with Melville and Marx. The book ranges over theoretical fields: trauma and
sexuality studies, theories of visuality, the philosophy of sacrifice and
intimacy, the thought of Wittgenstein.
<i>Instead of Modernity </i>is an adventure in the practice of comparative
writing: resonances join suggestively over place and time, the textures of
words, phrases and images combine to form moods. This book will be of interest
to anyone concerned with the question of modernity and with the fate of
cultural theory and comparison.
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intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in
thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped and underpinned
their most influential thoughts, its legacy insinuated into institutionalized
theories of culture. In this new book, that vision implodes, as if in a
cultural supernova, its exceptionalism and limitations exposed. The story of
modernity fades before a spectacle of linkages, stretching from and into the
depths of history, the breadths of place. And, in a parallel substitution, the
vast territories of the former Spanish Empire’s thread through the narrative,
rather than lurking on the peripheries, no longer just the fallen founders of
modernity.
<i>Instead of Modernity </i>goes to the very heart of comparative cultural
study: the question of what happens when intimate, dynamic connections are made
over place and time, what it is to feel at home amid the lavish diversity of
culture. This ambitious interdisciplinary book reconsiders foundational figures
of the modern western canon, from Darwin to Cameron, Baudelaire to Whistler. It
weaves together brain images from France, preserved insects from the Americas,
glass in London, poetry from Argentina, paintings from Spain. Flaubert,
Whitman, and Nietzsche find themselves with Hostos from Puerto Rico and Gorriti
from Argentina. The flotsam and jetsam of history – optical toys from Madrid –
sit with Melville and Marx. The book ranges over theoretical fields: trauma and
sexuality studies, theories of visuality, the philosophy of sacrifice and
intimacy, the thought of Wittgenstein.
<i>Instead of Modernity </i>is an adventure in the practice of comparative
writing: resonances join suggestively over place and time, the textures of
words, phrases and images combine to form moods. This book will be of interest
to anyone concerned with the question of modernity and with the fate of
cultural theory and comparison.
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