J Roy Wells
Biographic Data
| ID | 10207449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Roy Wells |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS J R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Commodified aura from Freddie Montgomery’s perspective in John Banville’s The Book of Evidence
This essay explores how John Banville’s The Book of Evidence presents its narrator, Freddie Montgomery, as a monstrous abstraction of projective drives that mechanized visual experience and altered conditions for aesthetic authenticity, what Walter Benjamin dubbed aura, while accommodating capitalist development. Erwin Panofsky’s argument that linear perspective developed as a symbolic form through which Europeans learned to understand visual exp…
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Commodified aura from Freddie Montgomery’s perspective in John Banville’s The Book of Evidence
This essay explores how John Banville’s The Book of Evidence presents its narrator, Freddie Montgomery, as a monstrous abstraction of projective drives that mechanized visual experience and altered conditions for aesthetic authenticity, what Walter Benjamin dubbed aura, while accommodating capitalist development. Erwin Panofsky’s argument that linear perspective developed as a symbolic form through which Europeans learned to understand visual exp…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Commodification (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Freudian slip (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Postmodernism (1 work) · Psychoanalysis (1 work)