scholarly journals Formal Experiment and Ideological Critique

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ideological Critique ◽  
Formal Experiment

Visconti's SENSO: The Art of History

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-358
Author(s):  
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
Ideological Critique

This article examines Visconti's subversive use of Francesco Hayez's 1859 iconic painting, Il bacio, in Senso as an essential element of the director's critique of Risorgimento history. In particular, the article proposes that through the recontextualization of Hayez's most recognizable work, which played a fundamental role in shaping the Italian patriotic imagination in the nineteenth century, Visconti problematizes cultural and artistic representations of Risorgimento history, as well as historiographical accounts of the unification process. By juxtaposing artistic accounts of a heroic Risorgimento and his characters' story of passion and betrayal, Visconti denounces traditional representations of the independence movement as historically false and politically biased, and uncovers the discrepancies between individual actions and motivations and uncomplicated representations of the Risorgimento. Gramscian perspective on the Risorgimento. By using art as an instrument of ideological critique he also traces a new direction for Italian intellectuals and artists, by attempting to bridge the gap between aesthetics and ideology and reclaiming for “Poetry” an active role in history.

Late Works (1933–1941)

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Alice Wood
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Between The Acts ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Formal Experiment

This chapter traces the development of Woolf’s late feminist politics and aesthetic experimentalism, focusing on her penultimate and final novels, The Years (1937) and Between the Acts (1941), and her anti-war pamphlet, Three Guineas (1938). It reads across these texts and Woolf’s wider writings from 1933–1941, including essays, unpublished drafts, and her fictional biography Flush (1933), to identify key strands of social and political enquiry in Woolf’s late works. The chapter pays particular attention to Woolf’s late analysis of the role of art in society and her evolving feminist-pacifist critique of the links between patriarchy, nationalism, fascism, and war. Rejecting a narrative of creative decline, the chapter highlights the productive relationship between political engagement and formal experiment in Woolf’s late works.

Acedia and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-266
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Ladyga
Keyword(s):  
Book Industry ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ideological Critique ◽  
Lauren Berlant

David Foster Wallace’s novel The Pale King (2011) employs the trope of acedia as the mode of its literary subjectivity. The analysis in this chapter focuses on Wallace’s detailed study of psychosomatic and bodily disorders by means of which his characters (IRS officers) manifest their resistance to their Bartlebesque lives. Given the consistency with which the bodies of the novel’s characters are exposed to hypertension, both from without and from within, it is clear that the object of The Pale King’s ideological critique is not capitalism in general, but its intervention into our biological life. In this way, the haptic serves as a poetic means in Wallace’s critique of biopower, the extent of whose intrusion into the intimate sphere of his characters’ lives is laid bare in the disorderly ways their bodies’ muscular, digestive and neurological systems respond to external and internalized discipline. The result of this poetic strategy is that the novel creates a series of micro events of what Lauren Berlant calls “self-interruption” which guard the agency of the subject and the author against interpellative calls of the book industry for self-exploitation and productivity

Neuro-Crime Fiction: Detecting Cognitive Difference

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Spencer Meeks
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Brain Health ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Cognitive Differences ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Ideological Critique

This paper seeks to understand how crime fiction connects with the neuroscientific turn occurring in society and culture today. It argues the genre has inherent ties to the science, technology, and biopolitical imperatives underpinning the neuroscientific turn, and is thus uniquely suited to exploring and challenging the ethical considerations arising from it. The paper highlights the symbiotic relationship between crime fiction and neuroscientific models, in which the particularities of the genre are employed by science while science influences the forms of crime fiction. Looking particularly at recent crime novels focussing on types of dementia, it explores how they affect expected generic endings to mount an ideological critique of a strictly medical and material model of identity formation. It does this through a re-working of today's hegemonic model of brain health, dominated by discourses of ‘neuroplasticity,’ looking in particular at how crime fiction can help us to think differently about cognitive differences and diseases.

Threat Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Gena E. Chandler ◽  
Jennifer Sano-Franchini
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Teaching Environment ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Ideological Critique ◽  
Economic Perspectives

While the term neoliberalism is commonly used to explain libertarian and conservative economic perspectives, its rapidly expanding contexts influence every aspect of our cultural environment, even the contexts of higher education. This article explores how neoliberal ideology affects the contemporary teaching environment for women of color teaching ideological critique.

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