1st Edition

Vision in Context Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight

Edited By Teresa Brennan, Martin Jay Copyright 1996
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Vision and the gaze are key issues in the analysis of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism. In recent radical theory, generally, and French theory in particular, vision has been seen as a means of control. But this view is often unnuanced. It bypasses questions such as: Why is it that contemporary theories have been so critical of vision, and generous towards listening (in psychoanalysis) and language... Read more
Chapter 1 Vision in Context: Reflections and Refractions, MartinJay; Part 1 Historical Perspectives; Chapter 2 Refracting Classical Vision: Changing Cultures of Viewing, SimonGoldhill; Chapter 3 Sight and Vision in Medieval Christian Thought, JanetSoskice; Chapter 4 The Wit of the Letter: Holbein's Lacan, TomConley; Chapter 5 The Visibility of Visuality, Peterde Bolla; Chapter 6 “;Authentic Tidings of Invisible Things”: Vision and the Invisible in the Later Nineteenth Century, GillianBeer; Part 2 Contemporary Perspectives; Chapter 7 Division of the Gaze, or, Remarks on the Color and Tenor of Contemporary “;Theory”, MelvilleStephen; Chapter 8 Imaginary Identity: Space, Gender, Nation, HelgaGeyer-Ryan; Chapter 9 Illuminating Passion: Irigaray's Transfiguration of Night, CathrynVasseleu; Chapter 10 The Gaze in the Closet, MiekeBal; Chapter 11 The Gaze of Inversion: The Lesbian as Visionary, Renée C.Hoogland; Chapter 12 The Homosocial Gaze According to Ian McEwan's, Ernstvan Alphen; Chapter 13 “;Other's Others”: Spectatorship and Difference, IritRogoff; Chapter 14 “;Father, Can't You See I'm Filming?”, ParveenAdams; Chapter 15 “;The Contexts of Vision” from a Specific Standpoint, TeresaBrennan;

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Teresa Brennan, Martin Jay