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題名 Against the Lure of Immediacy: W. G. Sebald and Tom McCarthy
作者 Chen, Chun-yen
貢獻者 文山評論：文學與文化
關鍵詞 W. G. Sebald  ;  Tom McCarthy  ;  immediacy  ;  mediation  ;  neoliberalism  ;  affect theory
日期 2021-06
上傳時間 17-Nov-2021 14:04:37 (UTC+8)
摘要 This article reads W. G. Sebald`s Vertigo and Tom McCarthy`s Remainder against the backdrop of a perceived obsession with immediacy or unmediated experience in the contemporary cultural logic. Noteworthy examples of this lure of immediacy include the prevalence of affect discourse in cultural theory, the privileging of unmediated sensibility in art practice and criticism, and the return of realism on the literary scene. While neither novel addresses these cultural instantiations thematically, they each gesture toward a creative process that contravenes the primacy of immediacy. Vertigo exhibits a recognition of the problematic of mediality as constitutive of the novel`s search for form, whereas Remainder stages and critiques the contemporary preoccupation with an immediacy riding on hypermediacy. To a great extent immediacy as a cultural dominant evidences the sweeping power of neoliberalism as accounts of affect and unmediated experience prove amenable to the neoliberal enterprise. However, this article seeks not so much to dovetail its argument to periodizing terms as to call attention to a sustained cultural rationale whose intelligibility demands more than chronological bookending.
關聯 文山評論：文學與文化, 14(2), 275-303
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202106_14(2).0010
dc.contributor 文山評論：文學與文化
dc.creator (作者) Chen, Chun-yen
dc.date (日期) 2021-06
dc.date.accessioned 17-Nov-2021 14:04:37 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 17-Nov-2021 14:04:37 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 17-Nov-2021 14:04:37 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/137850-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This article reads W. G. Sebald`s Vertigo and Tom McCarthy`s Remainder against the backdrop of a perceived obsession with immediacy or unmediated experience in the contemporary cultural logic. Noteworthy examples of this lure of immediacy include the prevalence of affect discourse in cultural theory, the privileging of unmediated sensibility in art practice and criticism, and the return of realism on the literary scene. While neither novel addresses these cultural instantiations thematically, they each gesture toward a creative process that contravenes the primacy of immediacy. Vertigo exhibits a recognition of the problematic of mediality as constitutive of the novel`s search for form, whereas Remainder stages and critiques the contemporary preoccupation with an immediacy riding on hypermediacy. To a great extent immediacy as a cultural dominant evidences the sweeping power of neoliberalism as accounts of affect and unmediated experience prove amenable to the neoliberal enterprise. However, this article seeks not so much to dovetail its argument to periodizing terms as to call attention to a sustained cultural rationale whose intelligibility demands more than chronological bookending.
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dc.relation (關聯) 文山評論：文學與文化, 14(2), 275-303
dc.subject (關鍵詞) W. G. Sebald  ;  Tom McCarthy  ;  immediacy  ;  mediation  ;  neoliberalism  ;  affect theory
dc.title (題名) Against the Lure of Immediacy: W. G. Sebald and Tom McCarthy
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.30395/WSR.202106_14(2).0010
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202106_14(2).0010