{"id":8884,"date":"2022-03-29T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=veranstaltung&#038;p=8884"},"modified":"2022-06-23T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T09:31:58","slug":"fiction-with-footnotes","status":"publish","type":"veranstaltung","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/veranstaltung\/fiction-with-footnotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction with Footnotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Writing, scholarship, art: reading art history in Teju Cole and Carol Mavor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hayden White suggested that historians\u2019 deficiency to recognise the analogous nature of their writerly work to that of poets \u2018is a result of a certain lack of linguistic self-consciousness\u2019 (1978, 95). The historians in question seemingly believe they use a special language of scholarship that avoids the abyssal connections to the fictional and the teeming interpretability of literary or poetic artefacts. Art history has attempted its own reckoning with\u00a0<em>more writerly<\/em>\u00a0texts, usually in special anthologies or thematic volumes that merely gather the material or approach the matter from a meta level with a historiographic angle. Notable in all framings is the special status afforded to the material. There is considerable handwringing that the texts belong to one or the other peculiar\u2014and definitely categorically distinct and pure\u2014class of \u2018the essay\u2019 or \u2018art writing\u2019 or \u2018creative writing\u2019 or \u2018literary non-fiction\u2019. Relatedly, the material is regularly described in terms of \u2018affect\u2019 yet ostensibly without awareness what such a re-inscription of the derogation of the senses, which such a categorisation entails, might imply for the notion of scholarship. Notable, too, is that historiographic scholarship of such writing often positions itself exactly in the space of language neutrality White lamented; though at times, the scholar permits the frisson of an apparently autobiographical section. (NB: Consider rewriting abstract reflecting on the personal rejection of a related project at a post-doc interview in Derby 2019.) \u2018Writing, scholarship, art\u2019 reads art history in Teju Cole\u2019s and Carol Mavor\u2019s work and aims to\u00a0<em>perform<\/em>\u00a0a scholarly enquiry that does not regard itself to be external to the material, literary, pictural, typographic and so on practice it considers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","event_category":[45,460],"class_list":["post-8884","veranstaltung","type-veranstaltung","status-publish","hentry","event_category-colloquium","event_category-events-in-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/veranstaltung"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}