The Subject of Minimalism On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming
Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable o
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On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming Thomas Phillips
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The Subject of Minimalism
THE SUBJECT OF MINIMALISM
Copyright © Thomas Phillips, 2013. All rights reserved.
Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978–1–137–34336–9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Phillips, Thomas, 1969– The subject of minimalism : on aesthetics, agency, and becoming / Thomas Phillips. pages cm ISBN 978–1–137–34336–9 (alk. paper) 1. Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature. 2. Minimalism (Literature) 3. Aesthetics in literature. 4. Self-realization in literature. I. Title. PN56.S46P48 2013 809⬘.93353—dc23
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Acknowledgments Introduction
vii 1
1
Stirrings of Discontent: A Theoretical Context
13
2
Becoming Fiction: Sarraute, Stein, Hemingway
33
3
Carver, Sarraute, Toussaint
57
4
Echenoz, Fabre, DeLillo
73
5
Lights Camera Action: Becoming against the Screen
93
6
“Mark the Music”: Microsound and Becoming-Silence
113
7
The Masochistic Body
131
8
The “Somaesthetic” Turn: Becoming-Minimal
141
9
On Virtue, Verbs, and the Virtual
165
Conclusion and Postscript: On Being Able
179
Notes
183
Bibliography
191
Index
197
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