Punctuations
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Duke University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781478005889 |
| Open Library | OL20942933W |
| Total publications | 1 |
| Coverage period | 2019 - 2019 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 2 |
| Impact factor | 1 |
| h-index | 1 |
"In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation--conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility--opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity to create unexpected rhythmic pacing makes it an ideal tool for writers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists to challenge structures of power. In works ranging from film scores and jazz compositions to literature, architecture, and photography, Shapiro shows how the use of punctuation reveals the contestability of dominant narratives in ways that prompt readers, viewers, and listeners to reflect on their acceptance of those narratives. Such uses of punctuation, he theorizes, offer models for disrupting structures of authority, thereby fostering the creation of alternative communities of sense from which to base political mobilization"--
Punctuations
Deferrals and BreaksLegacies of some of my earlier inquiries are among the conceptual perspectives framing the investigations in this book.In an analysis of the way Greek tragedies construct the politics of familial conflict, for example, I emphasized the way Aeschylus's tragedy Seven Against Thebes resists resolution.Rather than offering an unambiguous moral lesson, the play embraces a seemingly irreconcilable ontological divide.It cleaves to th…
Punctuations
Deferrals and BreaksLegacies of some of my earlier inquiries are among the conceptual perspectives framing the investigations in this book.In an analysis of the way Greek tragedies construct the politics of familial conflict, for example, I emphasized the way Aeschylus's tragedy Seven Against Thebes resists resolution.Rather than offering an unambiguous moral lesson, the play embraces a seemingly irreconcilable ontological divide.It cleaves to th…
Punctuations
Deferrals and BreaksLegacies of some of my earlier inquiries are among the conceptual perspectives framing the investigations in this book.In an analysis of the way Greek tragedies construct the politics of familial conflict, for example, I emphasized the way Aeschylus's tragedy Seven Against Thebes resists resolution.Rather than offering an unambiguous moral lesson, the play embraces a seemingly irreconcilable ontological divide.It cleaves to th…