Short-span temporalities in contemporary literary studies

• Main Author: Adrian Tudurachi
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2017-06-01
• Series: RiCognizioni
• Subjects: "short-span cycle" (Pierre Bourdieu); performance; regime of visibility; micro-gesticulations; Marielle Macé.
• Online Access: https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/2217

In recent literary studies, the themes and figures of the ephemeral may be found mainly in two domains: within the framework of literary sociology (in order to capture the writer’s identity during a time of medialization and performance derived from what Nathalie Heinich calls “a regime of visibility”), and within a hermeneutic of gestures (in order to describe the tiny moments of engagement of either an attitude or a posture in documentary/ fiction writings). The question raised in the present essay is how the two series of values specific for “the short-span culture” can be articulated in literature and what their ethic and aesthetic implications might be.