Experimental : American literature and the aesthetics of knowledge /
Cecire, Natalia Aki, 1981-
Experimental : American literature and the aesthetics of knowledge / Natalia Cecire. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Experimental; The Double Period of Experimental Writing; Language: Representing and Intervening; Epistemic Virtues and the Abstraction of Knowledge; Romantic and Other Precedents; Experimental Writing Is a White Recovery Project; The Language of the Future; 2 Flash; A Momentary Gleam of Light: Flash's Time; An Abstract of the World: Flash's Condensation; Black Riders: Flash's Chiaroscuro; Faces in the Crowd: Figuration, Redemption, Information; 3 Objectivity Bad Scientist: The Harvard Psychological Laboratory and Bottom NaturesCamera Work: Vision and Female Objectivity; "To Make Confusion Clear": Wandering and Objectification; Seeing Clear: Portraits and Repetition; 4 Precision; The First Grace of Style; Natural History; or, the Principle That Is Hid; Open Secrets of the Natural World; Various Scalpels; Distrust of Merits; 5 Contact; Contact and First Contact; Nakedness and the Form of Contact; Recovery, Salvage, and the Untimeliness of Contact; The Final Frontier; Coda. Future Texts; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
9781421433783
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy, American.
American literature--Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic Books.
BD161 / .E974 2019
Experimental : American literature and the aesthetics of knowledge / Natalia Cecire. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Experimental; The Double Period of Experimental Writing; Language: Representing and Intervening; Epistemic Virtues and the Abstraction of Knowledge; Romantic and Other Precedents; Experimental Writing Is a White Recovery Project; The Language of the Future; 2 Flash; A Momentary Gleam of Light: Flash's Time; An Abstract of the World: Flash's Condensation; Black Riders: Flash's Chiaroscuro; Faces in the Crowd: Figuration, Redemption, Information; 3 Objectivity Bad Scientist: The Harvard Psychological Laboratory and Bottom NaturesCamera Work: Vision and Female Objectivity; "To Make Confusion Clear": Wandering and Objectification; Seeing Clear: Portraits and Repetition; 4 Precision; The First Grace of Style; Natural History; or, the Principle That Is Hid; Open Secrets of the Natural World; Various Scalpels; Distrust of Merits; 5 Contact; Contact and First Contact; Nakedness and the Form of Contact; Recovery, Salvage, and the Untimeliness of Contact; The Final Frontier; Coda. Future Texts; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
9781421433783
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy, American.
American literature--Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic Books.
BD161 / .E974 2019