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Michael Ondaatje : haptic aesthetics and micropolitical writing /
This study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian authors aesthetics. Contributing to current debates about affect and representation, ideology critique and the artwork, trauma and testimony, this book uses the concept of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian authors aesthetics. Contributing to current debates about affect and representation, ideology critique and the artwork, trauma and testimony, this book uses the concept of the haptic to demonstrate how Ondaatjes multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This is where Ondaatjes micropolitics, often misconstrued as ideologically suspect aestheticism, emerges: a praxis that intimates how one. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441183385 1441183388 1441114033 9781441114037 1472542649 9781472542649 1336212926 9781336212923 9781623563028 162356302X |