Toward Affective Realism: Performing the Reverse Side of the Face

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Toward Affective Realism: Performing the Reverse Side of the Face
Original language description
Proposing a concept of affective realism that shifts from representation of outer reality and inner states to the formal work of affects by which an experience of the real is structured, this essay examines both the historical and aesthetic experience of disfiguration from the second decade of the twentieth century. Based on the war experiences of the survivors of World War I who suffered extensive facial injuries, as rendered by the novel Au ciel de Verdun (1918) by Bernard Lafont and the war memoirs Hommes sans visage (1942) of the Swiss front nurse Henriette Rémi, while reading the faceless images in two modernist texts, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) by Rainer Maria Rilke and the short story “The Erased Face” (1919) by Richard Weiner, I argue that rather than simply represented the hardly thinkable disfiguration is affectively performed. Not only do the witness accounts from the battlefront and literary fiction share an emotional force of the traumatic images but they also enable affects of shock, disgust, and fascination to structure their discursive forms. Consequently, the aesthetic force of affective realism lies in literature’s capacity to trigger a potential experience while pushing the realist representation toward its limits.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism in Comparative Perspectives. Volume II: Pathways Through Realism
ISBN
978-90-272-1085-2
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
337-350
Number of pages of the book
780
Publisher name
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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