Disunified aesthetics : situated textuality, performativity, collaboration / Lynette Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Lynette, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics in literature.

Performance in literature.

Ethics in literature.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aesthetics is a field still rooted in an understanding of a unified process where small numbers of people produce, commodify, and consume objects called "art." Disunified Aesthetics deconstructs the literary object by invoking the critics stance toward the written works with which they engage. Lynette Hunters performative explorations provide a distinctly different way of understanding contemporary creative processes. Disunified Aesthetics takes up twenty-first-century aesthetics through an investigation of recent Canadian writing. The book is both a series of insights into literature and poetics of the last two decades and a story about moving from a traditional view of the relation between the artist, art, and its reception, to a more radically democratic view of aesthetics and ethics. Hunter addresses a range of Canadian womens writing, as well as close studies of the work of Robert Kroetsch, Lee Maracle, Nicole Brossard, Frank Davey, Alice Munro, Daphne Marlatt, and bpNichol. Disunified Aesthetics is a creative, challenging, and original investigation of textuality, performance, and aesthetics by a leading and innovative scholar.

Contents:

Introduction

part one Situated textualities. Commentary

Opening Robert Kroetsch's The Puppeteer : Being Wedded to the Text

Trying to Say Women's Writing in Canada: I Am a Very Dirty Critic

Learning to Listen Indigenous Women's Writing in Canada: Presence, Rehearsal, and Performativity

part two Performativity. Commentary

Labour Notes for "Bodies in Trouble" Susan Rudy and Lynette Hunter

Face-work and Going to the End of the Line with Frank Davey's Writing

The Inédit in Writing by Nicole Brossard: Breathing the Skin of Language

The Rhetoric of Masking in Writing by Alice Munro

part three Collaboration. Commentary

Daphne Marlatt's Poetics: What Is an Honest Man? and Can There Be an Honest Woman?

De-scribing Performance in bpNichol's Selected Organs

Roget Falls in Love.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-306) and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-8959-7

OCLC:

893232068