Aaron Nyerges
Biographic Data
| ID | 803223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Nyerges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyerges |
| SIGNATURE | NYERGES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emblem of ruin
This article assesses the place of allegory in a literary field influenced by weak theory. As an ancient form of expression that encrypts ulterior meanings, allegory requires claims that would seem to supersede the restricted and descriptive methods of contemporary criticism. Drawing from the oeuvre of Walter Benjamin and setting it to work through the art collection of the Hollywood icon Mary Pickford, I argue that allegory’s respect for deterio…
Postcolonial Grief
Review(s) of: Postcolonial grief: The afterlives of the pacific wars in the Americas, by Jinah Kim, Durham, Duke University Press
The State and Cultural Production
Wilder than Adorno
Styling sovereignty
The following essay takes account of Gertrude Stein's noted interwar affiliations with right-wing politics not by examining her connections to the Vichy Regime but by taking stock of her attitudes towards the New Deal and the American Indian sovereignty movement of the 1930s. Her Geographical History of America can be read as a new artistic constitution of the USA, establishing a nationalist counter-narrative amid the tribal and socially democrat…
Hearing Hart Crane
This essay advances the traditional literary-critical practice of “close reading” with the methods and insights of sound studies. It takes as its privileged content “Voyages,” a poetic sequence in six parts by the modernist writer Hart Crane. I argue that the sexual disclosures and enclosures of his literary language are illegible apart from the immediate New York geography of the poem, and, essentially, the noise that the urban, maritime environ…
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Hearing Hart Crane
This essay advances the traditional literary-critical practice of “close reading” with the methods and insights of sound studies. It takes as its privileged content “Voyages,” a poetic sequence in six parts by the modernist writer Hart Crane. I argue that the sexual disclosures and enclosures of his literary language are illegible apart from the immediate New York geography of the poem, and, essentially, the noise that the urban, maritime environ…
The State and Cultural Production
Wilder than Adorno
Styling sovereignty
The following essay takes account of Gertrude Stein's noted interwar affiliations with right-wing politics not by examining her connections to the Vichy Regime but by taking stock of her attitudes towards the New Deal and the American Indian sovereignty movement of the 1930s. Her Geographical History of America can be read as a new artistic constitution of the USA, establishing a nationalist counter-narrative amid the tribal and socially democrat…
Postcolonial Grief
Review(s) of: Postcolonial grief: The afterlives of the pacific wars in the Americas, by Jinah Kim, Durham, Duke University Press
Emblem of ruin
This article assesses the place of allegory in a literary field influenced by weak theory. As an ancient form of expression that encrypts ulterior meanings, allegory requires claims that would seem to supersede the restricted and descriptive methods of contemporary criticism. Drawing from the oeuvre of Walter Benjamin and setting it to work through the art collection of the Hollywood icon Mary Pickford, I argue that allegory’s respect for deterio…
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