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Liminal blankness : mixing race and space in monochrome's psychic surface
Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2008 on 28.02.2017 by CS (TIS)Blank space in western Art History and visual culture is something that has tended to be either
explained away, or ignored. Pictures that do not depict challenge the visual basis of the ego and
its others, confronting what I call the `Phallic reader' (who sees according to the logic and rules of
the Phallogocentric system he inhabits) and potentially disturbing his sense of the visible. The
Phallic reader, the visible and the seeing ego's sense of how to see, meet in what I call the `psychic
surface'. Deploying this notion of a `psychic surface' allows for readings which move on from the
potentially confining logic of the Phallus. Paradoxically, the psychic structure of monochrome's
liminal blankness is homologous to the indeterminate Mixed Race subject, whose body
transgresses not only the foundational historical binarism of `Black/White', but also Lacanian
psychoanalysis. This thesis aims to concentrate on exploring blank spaces, with particular
reference to the monochrome within western Art History. Building on the considerable work
since at least the 1960s that critiques the binary logocentrism of Eurocentric, Hegelian-originated
Art History, this thesis aims to explore the specific ways monochrome evades, undermines and
tricks commonly accepted `groundrules' of Art History. The Phallic reader is severely restricted in
understanding that which falls outside of the signifying logic of a particular system of Art History
that follows a binary, teleological and Phallogocentric course. Both monochrome and the Mixed
Race subject fall outside of this logic, as both contain the structure of the trick. In each case, the
trick is activated in the tension between the prychica nd the opticals urfaces. I suggestt hat
monochrome's psychic space is pre-Phallic, a space of eternal deferral of meaning, a space that
playfully makes a nonsense of binary structures. Psychoanalysis is largely used here as an analytic
tool, but also appears as an object of critique. Art History provides an anchor for the optical
surfaces under discussion. Theories of `radical superficiality' both contradict and complement
these ways of theorising the psychic surface. The trick/ster is a significant/signifiant means of
deploying interdisciplinary methodologies to negotiate this difficult terrain between Black, White
and monochrome. An interdisciplinary approach also enacts the psychic structure of
indeterminacy of my objects of study. I hope that by proposing a potential transgressive power
for those indeterminate things that continue to confound the binary systems that aim to
contextualise and confine them, I will contribute to the areas of Visual Culture and `Race' Theory
A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 5: Periodical Articles--Secondary References, Alphabetical Listing
This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 5 includes "passing" or "secondary" references, i.e. those entries that are passing in nature or contain very brief information or content
A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 6: Periodical Articles, Subject Listing, By De Waal Category
This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 6 presents the periodical literature arranged by subject categories (as originally devised for the De Waal bibliography and slightly modified here)
A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 9: All Formats—Combined Alphabetical Listing
This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. This volume contains all listings in all formats, arranged alphabetically by author or main entry. In other words, it combines the listings from Volume 1 (Monograph and Serial Titles), Volume 3 (Periodical Articles), and Volume 7 (Audio/Visual Materials) into a comprehensive bibliography. (There may be additional materials included in this list, e.g. duplicate items and items not yet fully edited.) As in the other volumes, coverage of this material begins around 1994, the final year covered by De Waal's bibliography, but may not yet be totally up-to-date (given the ongoing nature of this bibliography). It is hoped that other titles will be added at a later date. At present, this bibliography includes 12,594 items
ReJoycing: New Readings of Dubliners
In this volume, the contributors—a veritable Who’s Who of Joyce specialists—provide an excellent introduction to the central issues of contemporary Joyce criticism.
What is really winning about this essay collection is that without any prompting or editorial proselytizing, receptive readers will come away from ReJoycing , not only with a number of new insights into various stories but with an enlarged critical repertoire. -- James Joyce Literary Supplement
Draws on the best of two important trends in Joyce criticism: the traditional commitment to probing Joyce’s complex language and the more recent effort to track down political and ideological meanings in his works. -- Robert Spoo
Attests to the continuing interest in Joyce’s ‘realist’ portrait if his native city and the importance of Dubliners in the development of his genius. -- Shari Benstockhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_ireland/1001/thumbnail.jp