Marta Figlerowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1199054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Figlerowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Figlerowicz |
| SIGNATURE | FIGLEROWICZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3127-0153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We Might Be Giants
New media environments and the phenomenologies they create strain against the generic and formal bounds of the realist novel. This strain can be critically productive, a double-edged site of reflection on the philosophical limits of digital and predigital conventions of representing the self. Constellating Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs against the films of Lena Dunham and the figural sculpture of Ron Mueck highlights these works’ shared use …
Auerbach's Hunger
This article argues that Erich Auerbach's Mimesis depicts figural thinking as inextricable from ritual violence perpetuated against vulnerable, minority populations. To an extent that has been underappreciated, Mimesis also reflects on Auerbach's own complicity with anti-Semitic Western ethnocentrism. The article uncovers an unexpected intertext for the book's second chapter, “Fortunata,” which narrates the birth of figural thinking. It reads thi…
Prosthetic Grand Synthesis
Peter Boxall's The Prosthetic Imagination is perhaps best understood as a work of conceptual synthesis. Prosthesis—the appendage of an inanimate body to help support the functioning of a living organism—might be Boxall's chosen subject. But his method is less prosthetic than Frankensteinian: Boxall (re)animates a theory of the novel whose component pieces have all had a prior life before him, a life in which they functioned well on their own but …
Poland's Other Pope
For most of the twentieth century, Polish culture was known abroad through its dissidents. Liberal-leaning escapees from beyond the Iron Curtain, these writers and thinkers – including Leszek Kołakowski and Czesław Miłosz, among many others – were celebrated in the West both for their genuine talents and for the ways their diagnoses of the country they fled dovetailed Western European condemnation of the USSR and its satellite states. After the f…
Modern Sentimentalism
Anton Chekhov's “The Lady with the Dog” (1899) ponders the end of a century and a cultural epoch. Over twenty years prior, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877) showed a woman's life rent apart by a love affair of epic intensity. Much shorter and more understated, Chekhov's short story follows two people in loveless marriages who also find themselves falling in love. After some dramatic twists and turns, their affair arrives at a stable state. At lo…
Multilingual style
This essay uses the notion of multilingual style: stylistic games that emerge at the intersection of several languages and blur the distinctions between them, as an aesthetic and critical heuristic. Through a series of examples from some vastly different languages and geographies, we highlight this concept's usefulness to describing otherwise un-noted aesthetic phenomena that occur in a post-colonial, post-national, globalising literary and cultu…
The Cybernetic Victorians
Who would believe that novel characters are real people? It seems like a rhetorical question. In critical practice, much as narrative scholars deplore such credulous readers, we constantly invoke and imagine them. Like the literary present and the Romantic genius, the reader to whom characters seem real is a seductive hermeneutic tool and a difficult one to abandon. It is at the heart of several popular approaches to novel studies, ranging from n…
Inanimism
This essay examines Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (Denmark/Belgium/France/Germany, 2013) and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (UK/US/Switzerland, 2013) as instances of an aesthetic trope described here as “inanimism.” Both films depict inanimate representations of human beings as more defining of who they are than their minds and bodies. Rejecting aliveness as an intrinsic human quality, Nymphomaniac and Under the Skin reconceive of their charact…
The Novel of Infinite Storage
This essay explores a new trend in contemporary character construction in which a character’s memories and sensations are depicted as exhaustively etched into and retrievable from his outside environments. Ben Lerner and Karl Ove Knausgaard represent their protagonists as alternately pleased and overwhelmed by the ease with which they can reach into outward records of their lives, over whose seemingly inevitable permanence and meticulousness they…
Affect Theory Dossier
Research Article| December 01 2012 Affect Theory Dossier: An Introduction Marta Figlerowicz Marta Figlerowicz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.2.0003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marta Figlerowicz; Affect Theory Dossier: An Introduction. Qui Parle 1 December 2012; 20 (2): 3–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quipa…
Can We Save What We Have Destroyed
Research Article| June 01 2011 Can We Save What We Have Destroyed?: Transmitting Literature Hélène Merlin-Kajman Hélène Merlin-Kajman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 179–204. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.0179 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ico…
Frightful Spectacles of a Mangled King
My paper studies the relationship of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko to theater. I demonstrate that Behn's novella is structured as a series of successive performances observed and responded to by diverse audiences. It is by imitating the interactions between the actors and the spectators of a play that Oroonoko can successfully combine the tragedy central to its plot with a broad exploration of cultural alterity and colonial politics. Since Oroonoko is of…
Affect Theory Dossier
Research Article| December 01 2012 Affect Theory Dossier: An Introduction Marta Figlerowicz Marta Figlerowicz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.2.0003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marta Figlerowicz; Affect Theory Dossier: An Introduction. Qui Parle 1 December 2012; 20 (2): 3–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quipa…
The Novel of Infinite Storage
This essay explores a new trend in contemporary character construction in which a character’s memories and sensations are depicted as exhaustively etched into and retrievable from his outside environments. Ben Lerner and Karl Ove Knausgaard represent their protagonists as alternately pleased and overwhelmed by the ease with which they can reach into outward records of their lives, over whose seemingly inevitable permanence and meticulousness they…
Multilingual style
This essay uses the notion of multilingual style: stylistic games that emerge at the intersection of several languages and blur the distinctions between them, as an aesthetic and critical heuristic. Through a series of examples from some vastly different languages and geographies, we highlight this concept's usefulness to describing otherwise un-noted aesthetic phenomena that occur in a post-colonial, post-national, globalising literary and cultu…
Frightful Spectacles of a Mangled King
My paper studies the relationship of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko to theater. I demonstrate that Behn's novella is structured as a series of successive performances observed and responded to by diverse audiences. It is by imitating the interactions between the actors and the spectators of a play that Oroonoko can successfully combine the tragedy central to its plot with a broad exploration of cultural alterity and colonial politics. Since Oroonoko is of…
Can We Save What We Have Destroyed
Research Article| June 01 2011 Can We Save What We Have Destroyed?: Transmitting Literature Hélène Merlin-Kajman Hélène Merlin-Kajman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 179–204. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.0179 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ico…
Affect Theory Dossier
Research Article| December 01 2012 Affect Theory Dossier: An Introduction Marta Figlerowicz Marta Figlerowicz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.2.0003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marta Figlerowicz; Affect Theory Dossier: An Introduction. Qui Parle 1 December 2012; 20 (2): 3–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quipa…
Inanimism
This essay examines Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (Denmark/Belgium/France/Germany, 2013) and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (UK/US/Switzerland, 2013) as instances of an aesthetic trope described here as “inanimism.” Both films depict inanimate representations of human beings as more defining of who they are than their minds and bodies. Rejecting aliveness as an intrinsic human quality, Nymphomaniac and Under the Skin reconceive of their charact…
The Novel of Infinite Storage
This essay explores a new trend in contemporary character construction in which a character’s memories and sensations are depicted as exhaustively etched into and retrievable from his outside environments. Ben Lerner and Karl Ove Knausgaard represent their protagonists as alternately pleased and overwhelmed by the ease with which they can reach into outward records of their lives, over whose seemingly inevitable permanence and meticulousness they…
The Cybernetic Victorians
Who would believe that novel characters are real people? It seems like a rhetorical question. In critical practice, much as narrative scholars deplore such credulous readers, we constantly invoke and imagine them. Like the literary present and the Romantic genius, the reader to whom characters seem real is a seductive hermeneutic tool and a difficult one to abandon. It is at the heart of several popular approaches to novel studies, ranging from n…
Modern Sentimentalism
Anton Chekhov's “The Lady with the Dog” (1899) ponders the end of a century and a cultural epoch. Over twenty years prior, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877) showed a woman's life rent apart by a love affair of epic intensity. Much shorter and more understated, Chekhov's short story follows two people in loveless marriages who also find themselves falling in love. After some dramatic twists and turns, their affair arrives at a stable state. At lo…
Multilingual style
This essay uses the notion of multilingual style: stylistic games that emerge at the intersection of several languages and blur the distinctions between them, as an aesthetic and critical heuristic. Through a series of examples from some vastly different languages and geographies, we highlight this concept's usefulness to describing otherwise un-noted aesthetic phenomena that occur in a post-colonial, post-national, globalising literary and cultu…
Prosthetic Grand Synthesis
Peter Boxall's The Prosthetic Imagination is perhaps best understood as a work of conceptual synthesis. Prosthesis—the appendage of an inanimate body to help support the functioning of a living organism—might be Boxall's chosen subject. But his method is less prosthetic than Frankensteinian: Boxall (re)animates a theory of the novel whose component pieces have all had a prior life before him, a life in which they functioned well on their own but …
Poland's Other Pope
For most of the twentieth century, Polish culture was known abroad through its dissidents. Liberal-leaning escapees from beyond the Iron Curtain, these writers and thinkers – including Leszek Kołakowski and Czesław Miłosz, among many others – were celebrated in the West both for their genuine talents and for the ways their diagnoses of the country they fled dovetailed Western European condemnation of the USSR and its satellite states. After the f…
Auerbach's Hunger
This article argues that Erich Auerbach's Mimesis depicts figural thinking as inextricable from ritual violence perpetuated against vulnerable, minority populations. To an extent that has been underappreciated, Mimesis also reflects on Auerbach's own complicity with anti-Semitic Western ethnocentrism. The article uncovers an unexpected intertext for the book's second chapter, “Fortunata,” which narrates the birth of figural thinking. It reads thi…
We Might Be Giants
New media environments and the phenomenologies they create strain against the generic and formal bounds of the realist novel. This strain can be critically productive, a double-edged site of reflection on the philosophical limits of digital and predigital conventions of representing the self. Constellating Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs against the films of Lena Dunham and the figural sculpture of Ron Mueck highlights these works’ shared use …
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