{"product_id":"aesthetic-apprehensions-silence-and-absence-in-false-familiarities-9781793633668","title":"Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silence and Absence in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAesthetic 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions, Jena Habegger-Conti and Lene M Johannessen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Drawing Closer: Liminal Medievalism in the Post-punk Gothic, Aidan Conti \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: A Chair is not a House: Sepulchral Intimacies in Sharp Objects, Janne Stigen Drangsholt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: “The Immortal Conception, the Perennial Theme”: Reading the Modern Body in Willa Cather’s “Coming, Aphrodite!”, Ingrid Galtung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Not Reading the Signs in Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, Jena Habegger-Conti \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Apprehensive Figurations: Monuments in “Site-Specific Performances”, Lene M. Johannessen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Apprehending the Past in the National Parks: False Familiarities, Aesthetic, Imaginaries, and Indigenous Erasures, Jennifer Ladino \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Garrulous Eye: Allegorization of Rape in Djuna Barnes’ “Ryder”, Helle Håkonsen Lapeniene \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Metonymy and the “Art of Reading the World Slowly”, Genevieve Liveley \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Aesthetic Apprehensions, Hauntology and Just Literature, Ruben Moi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Close Reading and Critical Immersion, Timothy Saunders \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Indians, Aliens, and Superheroes: Countering Silence and the Invisual in David Mack’s Echo: Vision Quest, Sara L. Spurgeon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Listening to Ourselves: The Musician as Listener in Rafi Zabor’s The Bear\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComes Home, Zoltan Varga \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Harlem to World and World to Harlem: Revisiting the Transnational Negotiations of Harlem Renaissance Narratives, Nahum Welang \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042666414423,"sku":"9781793633668","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793633668.jpg?v=1750955084","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aesthetic-apprehensions-silence-and-absence-in-false-familiarities-9781793633668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}