Vision in Context

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight
Herausgeber: Brennan, Teresa; Jay, Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

Vision and the gaze are key issues in the analysis of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism. In recent radical theory, generally, and French theory in particular, vision has been seen as a means of control. But this view is often unnuanced. It bypasses questions such as: Why is it that contemporary theories have been so critical of vision, and generous towards listening (in psychoanalysis) and language (in philosophy)? This collection of original essays brings together historical studies and contemporary theoretical perspectives on vision. The historical papers focus in turn on Ancient Greece, medieval theology, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the nineteenth century. These historical studies are themselves thoroughly informed by poststructuralist theory. They provide a rigorous background for several new, exciting articles on vision and its bearings for feminism, race, sexual orientation, film and art. This collection is the first of its kind in juxtaposing historical and contemporary

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780415914758
• ISBN-10: 0415914752
• Artikelnr.: 22265478

Autorenporträt

Teresa Brennan, Martin Jay

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Vision in Context: Reflections and Refractions, MartinJay
Part 1 Historical Perspectives
Chapter 2 Refracting Classical Vision: Changing Cultures of Viewing, SimonGoldhill
Chapter 3 Sight and Vision in Medieval Christian Thought, JanetSoskice
Chapter 4 The Wit of the Letter: Holbein's Lacan, TomConley
Chapter 5 The Visibility of Visuality, Peterde Bolla
Chapter 6 "
Authentic Tidings of Invisible Things": Vision and the Invisible in the Later Nineteenth Century, GillianBeer
Part 2 Contemporary Perspectives
Chapter 7 Division of the Gaze, or, Remarks on the Color and Tenor of Contemporary "
Theory", MelvilleStephen
Chapter 8 Imaginary Identity: Space, Gender, Nation, HelgaGeyer-Ryan
Chapter 9 Illuminating Passion: Irigaray's Transfiguration of Night, CathrynVasseleu
Chapter 10 The Gaze in the Closet, MiekeBal
Chapter 11 The Gaze of Inversion: The Lesbian as Visionary, Renée C.Hoogland
Chapter 12 The Homosocial Gaze According to Ian McEwan's, Ernstvan Alphen
Chapter 13 "
Other's Others": Spectatorship and Difference, IritRogoff
Chapter 14 "
Father, Can't You See I'm Filming?", ParveenAdams
Chapter 15 "
The Contexts of Vision" from a Specific Standpoint, TeresaBrennan