Thesis
Weird science: affect and epistemology in contemporary literary and artistic projects
- Abstract:
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Contemporary cultural practices sometimes appear dispassionate, distant and clinical—committed to conceptualism or formalism. Yet works by Jacques Roubaud and Jacques Jouet (both members of the Oulipo, a group of experimental writers in France that use formal and mathematical constraints to generate new literary forms) suggest a complex relationship between epistemology and affect. This thesis argues that contemporary literary and artistic projects that appropriate the tropes of clinical p...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Sheringham, M
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
French
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
+ Oxford University's Clarendon Fund; Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Funding agency for:
Morris, K
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:12190
- Deposit date:
- 2015-08-26
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Morris, K
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available via ORA.
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