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Benson, Stephen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-9979
(2020)
‘What shall be our new ornaments?’ Description’s orientations.
Textual Practice, 34 (4).
pp. 605-625.
ISSN 0950-236X
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Abstract
Description has made something of a comeback in recent years as part of a theorising of possibilities for a post-hermeneutical critical orientation. The present essay considers the descriptive turn, so-called, in relation to a range of writing that crosses the boundaries of the critical and the creative: in work by Claire-Louise Bennett, Lisa Robertson, Wayne Koestenbaum and R. F. Langley. The essay identifies in this writing an occupancy of description’s register as it has been articulated over the ages by a frequently sceptical regulatory discourse: description as understood to be variously gratuitous, ornamental or passively affirmative. Rather than suggest an expanded field of contemporary descriptive practice, the proposal here is for description conceived as a minor mode, a relatively rare happening, but all the more valuable for being so.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | description,ekphrasis,contemporary literature,creative-critical writing,criticism |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative-Critical Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2017 05:06 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 02:59 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64506 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1504115 |
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