Figures of Radical Absence: Blanks and Voids in Theory, Literature, and the Arts

Description: Figures of Radical Absence by Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description 871049711632105115321161041011141013211611132115101101321051103210511011810511510598108101329711411611911111410711544321011091121161213298111111107115321111143298108971101073211599114101101110115633272111119321001113210211111410997108329798115101110 Publisher Description What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books, or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, this book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and conceptual figures of absence. Spanning different media, it reveals a creative tradition that uses absence not as a negative aesthetic category, but as a productive state of radical indeterminacy with its own politics and poetics. Although post-structuralism highlighted the importance of what is offstage, lost, forgotten, hidden or discarded, silent or silenced, the poetics and politics of absence (much like its ethics and aesthetics) have rarely been discussed across media and disciplines. This book proposes the concept of radical absence to describe a certain tradition of resistance to ontology, predication, and representation, contesting their reliance on a metaphysics of presence. Apophatic speech, empty signifiers, and figural voids are some of the figures through which radical absence becomes apparent with unprecedented intensity in twentieth-century theory, literature, film, and the arts. Phantasmatic and outrageous, such figures play with creative strategies of dematerialization, irony, and other forms of discursive undoing. Therefore, absence becomes more than a simple theme; it reflects back on the medium and the meaning-making conditions under which it operates. Elusive and imprecise as an object of study, absence requires more subtle and flexible epistemological frameworks than have been available to date. This monograph proposes we think of it not only as a counter-concept for presence, but also – and perhaps more productively – as infinite spacing, deferral, fragmentation, and displacement. Author Biography Dr. Alexandra Irimia is an associate fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen and an upcoming fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne. She is currently completing a second PhD in Comparative Literature at Western University in Canada, writing about bureaucratic narratives in literary and cinematic fiction. Details ISBN 3111149153 ISBN-13 9783111149158 Title Figures of Radical Absence Author Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 226 Publisher De Gruyter GE_Item_ID:157817850; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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