3. Errant Readers: The Serialized Novel’s Modern Subject

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-112
Keyword(s):  
Modern Subject

scholarly journals Demetaphorization, Anatomy, and the Semiotics of the Reformation in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-201
Author(s):  
Attila Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Body ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
Revenge Tragedy ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
The Face ◽  
Revenge Tragedies ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes

Abstract Reformation theology induced a profound thanatological crisis in the semiotics of the human being and the body. The Protestant Reformation discontinued numerous practices of intercession and communal ritual, and the early modern subject was left vulnerable in the face of death. The English Renaissance stage played out these anxieties within the larger context of the epistemological uncertainties of the age, employing violence and the anatomization of the body as representational techniques. While theories of language and tragic poetry oscillated between different ideas of imitatio (granting priority to the model) and mimesis (with preference for the creative and individual nature of the copy), the new anatomical interest and dissective perspectives also had their effects on the rhetorical practices of revenge tragedies. In the most shocking moments of these plays, rhetorical tropes suddenly turn into grisly reality, and figures of speech become demetaphorized, literalized. In a double anatomy of body and mind, English Renaissance revenge tragedy simultaneously employs and questions the emblematic and poetic traditions of representation, and the ensuing indeterminacy and ambiguity open paths for a new mimesis.

scholarly journals Modern Architecture and Luxury: Aesthetics and the Evolution of the Modern Subject

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Canonical Interpretation

A book review of Robin Schuldenfrei, Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900–1933 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). This book challenges the canonical interpretation of two of the most revered institutions in the history of modern architecture—the Werkbund and the Bauhaus—and presents a critical interpretation of the relationship between modern architecture and luxury, which first appeared a generation ago.

scholarly journals DUGME: POETIKA SIMBOLIČKE MINIJATURE U DNEVNIKU O ČARNOJEVIĆU MILOŠA CRNjANSKOG I HAMLETU VILIJAMA ŠEKSPIRA

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Časlav Nikolić ◽  
◽  
Nikola Bubanja
Keyword(s):  
Marital Relationship ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The paper analyzes the narrative and symbolic values of the button in Miloš Crnjanski’s novel The Journal of Čarnojević. In the perturbation that occurs when the hero, during the meeting with his beloved, angrily but inadvertently tears the buttons off her dress, traces of the gap that will determine their marital relationship can be recognized. The button that falls and exposes the girl is a sign of overstepping and destabilization of the ontological union of two beings. This destabilization – the rudeness of the hero, the agitation, the withdrawal and fall of the woman – is determined by the self-challenging forces of the subject itself. The crisis as a state of the modern subject in Crnjanski’s novel is viewed against the relationship between Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Ophelia. The button in Shakespeare’s dramatic literature, a sign of disruption of order and of the negation of action, is a sign of theatricality and dissembling; the unbuttoned Hamlet seduces Ophelia, and others through her, painting a coldness falling quite short of the lyricism of Crnjanski. In fact, it seems that only against this tense lyricism can Hamlet be made ready to be read as a lyrical misinterpretation of arid theatrical coldness. The lyrical force of modernity in Crnjanski’s novel transforms the torn off buttons into marks of nightmarish existences, upheavals of old ideas and concepts, the dismantling of the categories of subject, identity, history, metaphysics, language. A symbolic miniature, a button is a scene on which an entire poetics presents itself.

The bodily event, jouissance and the (post)modern subject

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 321a ◽  
Author(s):  
Lissy Canellopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Modern Subject

For Love and Money: Of Potboilers and Precautions

PMLA ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-391
Author(s):  
Doris Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Intimate Contact ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
History Of ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
Irregular Data

Intercourse means commerce, they told us in school. And we giggled at the explosive word that went off in more than one direction. But the confusion is more than simply a joke of mistaken referents or of metaphoric allusions to intimate contact and interested exchange. It is a tangle of productive sex and enterprising business revealing an adjacency of practices that add up to modernity. In a metaleptic circle of cause and effect, modern desire for family and for wealth seemed to drive those practices, and they helped form the kind of modern subject who desired them. The circularity illustrates what Nietzsche said about the fiction of empirical moorings (279-80). The moorings invented themselves to produce an illusion of stability. This is what happened at the beginnings of European modernity, as Mary Poovey shows in A History of the Modern Fact: truth grounded in empirical facts turns out to be a metaleptic effect of the seventeenth-century fiction of precise accounting, a rhetorical compensation for numbers that could not add up in the precarious conditions of mercantilism. But a century later, precise and transparent accounts were no longer performances that interpreted irregular data; they required proofs of economic and civic credibility. In a broad stroke, we can say that the foundational fiction that followed from honorable entrepreneurship is the dynamic law of desire for development as the natural drive of our particular and collective lives. Laissez-faire was the slogan.

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