Journal article
Zuckerman/Roth: Literary Celebrity between Two Deaths
PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol.129(2), pp.223-236
03/01/2014
DOI: 10.1632/pmla.2014.129.2.223
Abstract
Postmodern aesthetics' vaunted hermeneutic flatness is routinely equated with emotional flatness. In large part, it is this equation that underpins postmodernism's fall from favor in the face of the critical humanities' recent turn to the analysis of affect and emotion. Through a close reading of David Cronenberg's paradigmatically postmodern film Crash (1996), however, this essay draws on a long-standing lamination of texture to emotion in order to undertake a radical reappraisal of postmodernism's emotional life—recoding postmodern aesthetics' notoriously flat, depthless surface as a richly textured plane that oscillates between the high polish of the glossy surface and the cragginess of the rough. In doing so, the essay argues not only that postmodern aesthetics is unexpectedly hospitable to emotions but also that an analysis of these emotions may help to reconfigure sedimented scholarly understandings of the relation between surface and depth, true emotion and false, critical "then" and critical "now."
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Zuckerman/Roth: Literary Celebrity between Two Deaths
- Creators
- Loren Glass
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol.129(2), pp.223-236
- DOI
- 10.1632/pmla.2014.129.2.223
- ISSN
- 0030-8129
- eISSN
- 1938-1530
- Publisher
- Modern Language Association of America
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398057402771
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