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Choreographies of the Living
Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance
Taschenbuch von Carrie Rohman
Sprache: Englisch

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Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species, and in doing so she revises our received wisdom about the value and functions of artistic capacities. Countering the long history of aesthetic theory in the West--beginning with Plato and Aristotle, and moving up through the recent claims of "neuroaesthetics"--Rohman challenges the likening of aesthetic experience to an exclusively human form of judgment.
Turning toward the animal in new frameworks for understanding aesthetic impulses, Rohman emphasizes a deep coincidence of humans' and animals' elaborations of fundamental life forces. Examining a range of literary, visual, dance, and performance works and processes by modernist and contemporary figures such as Isadora Duncan, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Merce Cunningham, Rohman reconceives the aesthetic itself not as a distinction separating humans from other animals, but rather as a framework connecting embodied beings. Her view challenges our species to acknowledge the shared status of art-making, one of our most hallowed and formerly exceptional activities.
Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species, and in doing so she revises our received wisdom about the value and functions of artistic capacities. Countering the long history of aesthetic theory in the West--beginning with Plato and Aristotle, and moving up through the recent claims of "neuroaesthetics"--Rohman challenges the likening of aesthetic experience to an exclusively human form of judgment.
Turning toward the animal in new frameworks for understanding aesthetic impulses, Rohman emphasizes a deep coincidence of humans' and animals' elaborations of fundamental life forces. Examining a range of literary, visual, dance, and performance works and processes by modernist and contemporary figures such as Isadora Duncan, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Merce Cunningham, Rohman reconceives the aesthetic itself not as a distinction separating humans from other animals, but rather as a framework connecting embodied beings. Her view challenges our species to acknowledge the shared status of art-making, one of our most hallowed and formerly exceptional activities.
Über den Autor
Carrie Rohman is Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College and the author of Stalking the Subject (2008).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • Preface

  • Introduction

  • Chapter One: Nude Vibrations: Isadora Duncan's Creatural Aesthetic

  • Chapter Two: Creative Incantations and Involutions in D. H. Lawrence

  • Chapter Three: Woolf's Floating Monkeys and Whirling Women

  • Chapter Four: Strange Prosthetics: Rachel Rosenthal's Rats and Rings

  • Chapter Five: UnCaging Cunningham's Animals

  • Afterword

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780190604417
ISBN-10: 0190604417
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rohman, Carrie
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Carrie Rohman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2018
Gewicht: 0,31 kg
Artikel-ID: 120655164
Über den Autor
Carrie Rohman is Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College and the author of Stalking the Subject (2008).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • Preface

  • Introduction

  • Chapter One: Nude Vibrations: Isadora Duncan's Creatural Aesthetic

  • Chapter Two: Creative Incantations and Involutions in D. H. Lawrence

  • Chapter Three: Woolf's Floating Monkeys and Whirling Women

  • Chapter Four: Strange Prosthetics: Rachel Rosenthal's Rats and Rings

  • Chapter Five: UnCaging Cunningham's Animals

  • Afterword

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780190604417
ISBN-10: 0190604417
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rohman, Carrie
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Carrie Rohman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2018
Gewicht: 0,31 kg
Artikel-ID: 120655164
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