Beyond Linguistic Sign

Embodiment and the Recovery of Resonance

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Agata Walek

Verlag:

Vernon Art and Science

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36819858

EAN: 9798261601005

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Fr, 25.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 123.–

Beschreibung

This monograph examines 'Only Revolutions' (2006) by Mark Z. Danielewski and 'Becoming Animal' (2010) by David Abram to ask whether contemporary literature can articulate a viable alternative to the radical pluralism and fragmentation associated with postmodern aesthetics. What was once described as the postmodern condition-decentred subjectivity, proliferating interpretations, the dispersal of grand narratives-has intensified in the twenty-first century into algorithmic hyperreality, digital abstraction, and ecological disconnection. Within this landscape, reading and thinking risk dissolving into endless circulation without orientation. Positioned at the intersection of post-structuralism, phenomenology, and embodied cognition, the study proposes not a return to unity but a re-materialization of experience through resonance. It develops an interdisciplinary framework drawing on phonosemantics, conceptual metaphor theory, and sound studies in order to foreground dimensions often marginal in literary criticism: rhythm, vibration, and embodied perception. Language is approached not as a merely representational system but as materially expressive and affectively generative. In a final chapter, the memoir of David Goggins is read alongside these literary and philosophical analyses to explore how discipline, pain, and self-formation enact a comparable structure of re-attunement. Across literary experimentation, ecological phenomenology, and embodied practice, the book argues that meaning does not simply signify-it resounds. By reconceptualizing language as resonant and ontologically expressive, the study offers a constructive response to postmodern fragmentation and contributes to debates in contemporary literary theory, continental philosophy, and embodied cognition. It will be of interest to researchers in literary and cultural studies, philosophy of language, affect theory, and ecophenomenology, and may serve as a methodological resource for interdisciplinary work on materiality, sound, and subjectivity.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Agata Walek

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

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