Oil & Light, Figure & Shadow: Democratic Aesthetics from Melville to Ellison

Q2 Arts and Humanities Leviathan (Germany) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/lvn.2023.0007
Jennifer Greiman
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Abstract:This essay proposes a relationship between the work of Ralph Ellison and Herman Melville that cannot be captured by terms such as reference, allusion, or influence. Instead both writers are engaged in a common endeavor to reimagine what it might mean for literature to be about democracy beyond modes of representational realism. Ranging across both authors’ fictional and critical writings, I trace a series of material figures that connect Ellison and Melville and reveal a shared experimentation with non-referential modes of figuration and forms of incompletion through which both sought to produce a radically democratic aesthetics.
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油与光,影与影:从梅尔维尔到埃里森的民主美学
摘要:本文提出了拉尔夫·埃里森和赫尔曼·梅尔维尔作品之间的关系,这种关系不能用参考、典故或影响等术语来描述。相反,两位作家都在共同努力,重新想象文学在具象现实主义模式之外的民主可能意味着什么。在两位作者的小说和评论作品中,我追踪了一系列将埃里森和梅尔维尔联系起来的物质人物,并揭示了一种共同的实验,即非指涉的形象模式和不完整的形式,通过这种模式,他们都试图产生一种激进的民主美学。
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Leviathan (Germany)
Leviathan (Germany) Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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