MITRANO, G. F. et Eric JAROSINSKI (dir.), The Hand of the Interpreter. Essays on Meaning after Theor, Oxford, Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Wien, Peter Lang (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts), 2009, 370 p.
ISBN 9783039111183
RÉSUMÉ
This collection of essays by scholars and artists of differentdisciplines and from different countries is designed to navigate thelabyrinth of contemporary aesthetic ideologies with the aim ofreassessing how we read - both the way in which texts touch us, and wethem.
Theory has transformed texts into mute interlocutors exposedto infinite indeterminacy. While the response to this sense of silencethat undermines meaning is often informed by a nostalgia for oldernotions of close reading, the essays in this volume work towards are-evaluation of key subjects such as reader, writer and text. Thecontributors engage with topics such as digital books, popular culture,alternative ways of book-making, visual-verbal collaborations andthematic explorations of the hand in literature.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
G. F. Mitrano: Introduction: The Sense of an Equality of Things - AndersJohansson: Touched by Style - Alan Watt: Nietzsche, Bataille, and theContagion of Philosophy - Dawne McCance: The History of the Hand:Vesalius and Descartes - Shahidha Kazi Bari: Feeling Friendship:Reading Keats's 'This Living Hand' and the Sonnets on the Elgin Marbles- Matt Brim: Teaching the Touching Text; or, How to Lay 'Hands' on YourStudents - Andy White: The Return to Orality: Digital Texts and theirImpact on Literacy - Richard E. Parent: Interpretation, Navigation,Enactment: Fragmented Narratives and the Play of Reading - JoyceGoggin: A Body Hermeneutic? Corpus Simsi or Reading Like a Sim- Jeff Shantz: Punk as ... Book Making: DIY Theory and Post-PoliticalPolitics - Monika Gehlawat: William Carlos Williams and Spring and All:Cubism as a Poetic Event - Gonzalo Tena Brun: Painting Page by Page -Aaron Ritzenberg: Touching the Body, Training the Reader: EmotionalResponse in Uncle Tom's Cabin - Oliver Taylor: D. H. Lawrence'sand Virginia Woolf 's Hands - Stefania Consonni: 'A Sculptor's Sense ofWords': Don DeLillo's Neo-Realism and the Three-Dimensionality ofNarrative Plots.
BIOGRAPHIE
G. F. Mitrano is the author of Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities(2005). She works on the intersection of critical thought, literature,and the visual arts. She has taught at the University of Maryland inEurope, the University of Cassino, and currently teaches language andcultural studies courses at the Sapienza University of Rome.
EricJarosinski is the author of several articles on links between language,architecture, politics and critical theory. He is currently anassistant professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, wherehe teaches modern German literature, culture and theory.