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Framing the Frame: Contingency, Connection and Divestiture in Literary History and Criticism
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Reingard Nethersole
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February 20, 2008
Abstract
Set against a horizon of post-modern rejection of the modern illusion of necessity, permanence, and universal knowledge, the essay deconstructs the notion of “framing contingency”. Understanding contingency as chance or randomness that ruptures temporal order within the circumference of any given ‘frame’ of intelligibility, the paper argues that the current popular term ‘framing’, in place of Hegel's domestication of time as necessary true historical unfolding, together with Kant's analytic aesthetic judgement, signals profound paradigm shifts in criticism that are attendant on divestiture in Hegelian inspired literary history, while positing anew the question of how to connect literary expressions past and present.
Published Online: 2008-02-20
Published in Print: 2004-11-19
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Articles in the same Issue
- Adressen der Mitarbeiter
- Introduction. Framing Contingency: History and Heterology
- Framing the Frame: Contingency, Connection and Divestiture in Literary History and Criticism
- Naming and Contingency, and Some Implications for Begriffsgeschichte
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- Zufälligkeitssinn. Adalbert Stifters Umgang mit der Kontingenz
- Subjective Contingency and Autobiographical Writing
- Counter-Memory and Phantasma
- La Panique Historique. History Encountering Contingency
- History as Effects of Power
- Neutralizing Contingency: Ammianus Marcellinus as a Participant in Julian's Persian Campaign, 363 AD
- “Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel”: Hamlet from Berlin (East)
- “Bridge to Antiquity“. Nostalgia, Exile, and Stoicism in the Poetry of Durs Grünbein
- OΔYΣΣEYΣ OYTIΣ: Odysseus Nobody
- Darstellungen von Dora. Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow im Spannungsfeld von fiktionalen, historiographischen und erinnerungsbasierten Repräsentationen des Konzentrationslagers Mittelbau-Dora
- Die erlebte Rede als temporales Phänomen
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