Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism.

Audience participation in theater often obscures or confuses the magical nature of the activity of theater. The uniqueness of this activity is centered in the separateness of the world of the play from the world of the audience, as Stanley Cavell remarks. The importance of such separateness becomes vivid in recognition scenes which are the structural core of most drama. Aristotle perceives the importance of recognition scenes, but does not show adequately what such scenes do to the spectator. The recognition scenes in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare’s King Lear reveal drama’s special ability to allow the spectator to acknowledge another while himself remaining private. The critical process involved in coming to such an understanding of drama, while similar to some elements of structuralistic analysis, focuses more directly on a concern with the patterns of relationship between play and audience. My methodology corresponds to Stanley Fish’s “affective” stylistics.

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Cavell as Mentor

Conversations The Journal of Cavellian Studies ◽

10.18192/cjcs.vi7.4289 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 60-64

Author(s):

Siane Ngai

Keyword(s):

Stanley Cavell ◽

Dissertation Committee ◽

Looking Back

I was a Grad student in English at Harvard in the mid-90s, but physically there for just three years, anxious to move to Brooklyn for a relationship as soon as I became ABD. In that brief but intense period of time, I tried to take as many courses offered by Stanley Cavell as possible. In my last year, I asked him to be a member of my dissertation committee. Looking back I’m still flooded with gratitude (and astonishment) by the fact that he said yes.

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À propos de deux inédits de Stanley Cavell

Théories ordinaires ◽

10.4000/books.editionsehess.20886 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 145-148

Author(s):

Sandra Laugier

Keyword(s):

Stanley Cavell

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"Stay on Your Path, Young Man"

Conversations The Journal of Cavellian Studies ◽

10.18192/cjcs.vi7.4632 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 65-68

Author(s):

Paul Grimstad

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Stanley Cavell

Almost ten years ago I participated in the conference whose proceedings would become the volume Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism. Stanley sat directly in front of me and listened attentively to my talk, thrilling and scary, not to say awkward, reading out “Cavell writes...” and “Cavell says...” with the man right there. After the Q and A, someone, I don't remember who, brought me over and introduced us. Stanley shook my hand and with the other patted my shoulder and said, with a broad smile, “Stay on your path, young man.”

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“Outside the Box” – Another View on Modern and Contemporary Art.” Book Review: Nikola Dedić, Između dela i predmeta: Majkl Frid i Stenli Kavel između moderne i savremene umetnosti [Between Artwork and Object: Michael Fried and Stanley Cavell Between Modern and Contemporary Art], Beograd: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije, Univerzitet Singidunum, 2017.

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies ◽

10.25038/am.v0i15.243 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jelisaveta Mojsilović

Keyword(s):

Media Studies ◽

Contemporary Art ◽

Stanley Cavell ◽

Outside The Box

Book ReviewHow to cite this article:Mojsilović, Jelisaveta. "“Outside the Box” – Another View on Modern and Contemporary Art.” Book Review: Nikola Dedić, Između dela i predmeta: Majkl Frid i Stenli Kavel između moderne i savremene umetnosti [Between Artwork and Object: Michael Fried and Stanley Cavell Between Modern and Contemporary Art], Beograd: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije, Univerzitet Singidunum, 2017." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): . doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.243

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