Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

What happens when a human face begins to lose its familiar form, falls apart, becomes an uncanny, formless object? And how can language mediate such a brutal experience? Shifting from an affective ontology of the face towards the affective operations of the faceless, this essay examines, through both historical and aesthetic experiences, several encounters between subjects and disfigured faces that took place during the second decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on the war experiences of the gueules cassées—the term given to the survivors of World War I who suffered extensive facial injuries—and several modernist texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Gaston Leroux and Richard Weiner, I argue that far from merely provoking horror, shock, disgust or fascination, the faceless image operates both in literature and the visual arts as a figure, embracing on the one hand the aesthetics of the ‘formless’ and on the other the traumatizing experience of war. Placing the relational and formalist approaches to affect in dialogue with each other, the formless is explored as an affective operation based on the generative deformation of forms, triggering latent experiences in all those who encounter it.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War

Popis výsledku anglicky

What happens when a human face begins to lose its familiar form, falls apart, becomes an uncanny, formless object? And how can language mediate such a brutal experience? Shifting from an affective ontology of the face towards the affective operations of the faceless, this essay examines, through both historical and aesthetic experiences, several encounters between subjects and disfigured faces that took place during the second decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on the war experiences of the gueules cassées—the term given to the survivors of World War I who suffered extensive facial injuries—and several modernist texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Gaston Leroux and Richard Weiner, I argue that far from merely provoking horror, shock, disgust or fascination, the faceless image operates both in literature and the visual arts as a figure, embracing on the one hand the aesthetics of the ‘formless’ and on the other the traumatizing experience of war. Placing the relational and formalist approaches to affect in dialogue with each other, the formless is explored as an affective operation based on the generative deformation of forms, triggering latent experiences in all those who encounter it.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices

ISBN

978-90-04-39769-9

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

121-142

Počet stran knihy

279

Název nakladatele

Brill Academic Publishers

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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