The Subject of Minimalism [electronic resource] : On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming /
Phillips, Thomas.author.
Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Stirrings of discontent: a theoretical context -- Becoming fiction: Sarraute, Stein, Hemingway -- Carver, Sarraute, Toussaint -- Echenoz, Fabre, DeLillo -- Lights camera action: becoming against the screen -- Mark the music: microsound and becoming-silence -- The masochistic body -- The somaesthetic turn: becoming-minimal -- On virtue, verbs, and the virtual -- Conclusion and post script: On being able.
Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic.
Fine arts.
Fiction.
Aesthetics.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature-Philosophy.
Fine Arts.
Fiction.
Aesthetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.