Jacob Emery
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3681867 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jacob Emery |
| PRENOMES | Jacob |
| SOBRENOME | Emery |
| ASSINATURA | EMERY J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Rhetoric of Exile
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Poetics of Passivity
Confusion over the aesthetic quality of strength are pronounced in the Soviet context of underground and dissident fiction. Strength, and more broadly the alternatives to it employed by silenced authors and unpublished texts, is a central problem already in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s 1926 novel The Letter Killers Club . Krzhizhanovsky’s meditation on literary irrelevance–questions of a censored art’s ability to exert itself in the world, and of a…
Alternative Kinships
According to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the "germ" of every exploitative practice. In this insightful study, Jacob Emery examines the Soviet Union's programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make possible other artistic forms. A time in which literary fiction was continuous with the social fictions th…
Species of Legitimacy
Numismatic advertisements of competing claims to the title of grand prince served as a useful propaganda medium during the Muscovite succession struggles of the 1400s but also yielded a persistent slippage between coins' function of proclaiming political legitimacy and conferring that legitimacy. This article outlines the mutually symbolizing relation between coinage and succession in the cultural imagination of the Daniilovich dynasty and beyond…
Danilo Kiš's Metafictional Genealogies
This article describes the metaphorical identification of genealogy and language that is central to Danilo Kiš’s overarching project. In The Family Cycle and “The Encyclopedia of the Dead,” the documentation of history and the continuity of generations are worked into a single figurative system. This system has three major functions. First, children and texts complexly interact in the larger endeavor to preserve traces of the fragile past into an…
A Clone Playing Craps Will Never Abolish Chance
Keeping Time
This article approaches Osip Mandel'shtam's "Conversation about Dante" as a demonstration of and meditation on reading. As such, Mandel 'stam's essay addresses the perennial problems of our relationship to the authority of writing and the preservation of literary culture across time, largely through a cluster of metaphors around the central image of a conductor's baton. The visible instrument of musical measure, the baton figures synesthetic tran…
Art of the Industrial Trace
Looking down at man-made landscapes from an airplane window: entry-point to an allegorical materialism, mapping art onto its double in production? The role of the indexical in earthworks, crop art and aerial photography, and the limits it places on allegory
Art Is Inoculation
Tolstoy's most cogent and focused statement on aesthetics, the 1896 treatise What is Art?, answers the question posed by its title with the blunt statement that "art is infection." This paper observes that a consistent system of metaphors of infection is central not just to What is Art?, but to every stage and genre of Tolstoy's writing-polemical, autobiographical, and literary works, early journals and late-life rantings. Arguing that the comple…
Repetition and Exchange in Legitimizing Empire
Alternative Kinships
According to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the "germ" of every exploitative practice. In this insightful study, Jacob Emery examines the Soviet Union's programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make possible other artistic forms. A time in which literary fiction was continuous with the social fictions th…
Art Is Inoculation
Tolstoy's most cogent and focused statement on aesthetics, the 1896 treatise What is Art?, answers the question posed by its title with the blunt statement that "art is infection." This paper observes that a consistent system of metaphors of infection is central not just to What is Art?, but to every stage and genre of Tolstoy's writing-polemical, autobiographical, and literary works, early journals and late-life rantings. Arguing that the comple…
Repetition and Exchange in Legitimizing Empire
Art of the Industrial Trace
Looking down at man-made landscapes from an airplane window: entry-point to an allegorical materialism, mapping art onto its double in production? The role of the indexical in earthworks, crop art and aerial photography, and the limits it places on allegory
Art Is Inoculation
Tolstoy's most cogent and focused statement on aesthetics, the 1896 treatise What is Art?, answers the question posed by its title with the blunt statement that "art is infection." This paper observes that a consistent system of metaphors of infection is central not just to What is Art?, but to every stage and genre of Tolstoy's writing-polemical, autobiographical, and literary works, early journals and late-life rantings. Arguing that the comple…
A Clone Playing Craps Will Never Abolish Chance
Keeping Time
This article approaches Osip Mandel'shtam's "Conversation about Dante" as a demonstration of and meditation on reading. As such, Mandel 'stam's essay addresses the perennial problems of our relationship to the authority of writing and the preservation of literary culture across time, largely through a cluster of metaphors around the central image of a conductor's baton. The visible instrument of musical measure, the baton figures synesthetic tran…
Danilo Kiš's Metafictional Genealogies
This article describes the metaphorical identification of genealogy and language that is central to Danilo Kiš’s overarching project. In The Family Cycle and “The Encyclopedia of the Dead,” the documentation of history and the continuity of generations are worked into a single figurative system. This system has three major functions. First, children and texts complexly interact in the larger endeavor to preserve traces of the fragile past into an…
Species of Legitimacy
Numismatic advertisements of competing claims to the title of grand prince served as a useful propaganda medium during the Muscovite succession struggles of the 1400s but also yielded a persistent slippage between coins' function of proclaiming political legitimacy and conferring that legitimacy. This article outlines the mutually symbolizing relation between coinage and succession in the cultural imagination of the Daniilovich dynasty and beyond…
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Poetics of Passivity
Confusion over the aesthetic quality of strength are pronounced in the Soviet context of underground and dissident fiction. Strength, and more broadly the alternatives to it employed by silenced authors and unpublished texts, is a central problem already in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s 1926 novel The Letter Killers Club . Krzhizhanovsky’s meditation on literary irrelevance–questions of a censored art’s ability to exert itself in the world, and of a…
Alternative Kinships
According to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the "germ" of every exploitative practice. In this insightful study, Jacob Emery examines the Soviet Union's programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make possible other artistic forms. A time in which literary fiction was continuous with the social fictions th…
The Rhetoric of Exile
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