Journal article
Book Quirks
Critical inquiry, Vol.37(2), pp.355-363
12/01/2011
DOI: 10.1086/657297
Abstract
Garrett Stewart's response to John Lurtz's essay on the former's article Bookwork as Demediation is presented. In Bookwork as Demediation, Stewart explores what happens to book-works when they are conceptualized in museum space. Lurz questions his assumption that the book-works he examines reduce the normative textual volume to "sheer nonsignifying presence." In any case, he says he intended an indefinite rather than a definite article in the phrase "sheer nonsignifying presence." Evoking only local and concrete incarnations rather than some reification of presence as ontological category, he was speaking of the book form's material remainder, after the subtraction of language, as an installed object, a petrified thing rather than a functioning textual entity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Book Quirks
- Creators
- Garrett Stewart
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Critical inquiry, Vol.37(2), pp.355-363
- Publisher
- University of Chicago, acting through its Press
- DOI
- 10.1086/657297
- ISSN
- 0093-1896
- eISSN
- 1539-7858
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398049002771
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