المؤلفون: Klee, Louis

المساهمون: Macfarlane, Robert

مصطلحات موضوعية: Constellational Form, Constellationality, Walter Benjamin, Ethics, The Novel, Teju Cole, Marcel Proust, Olga Tokarczuk, W. G. Sebald, Lisa Robertson, Jacqueline Rose, Association, Digression, Relationality, Politics and Form, Ethics and Form, Relational Formalism, New Formalism, New Ethics, The Ethical Turn, Emmanuel Levinas, Jo´zef Czapski, The Experience of Reading, Aesthetics, Judgement, Baroque, Theory and the Novel, Essayistic Novels, Essayism

الوصف: This dissertation defines and theorises 'constellational form' in the novel, a term I develop from the work of Walter Benjamin. By 'constellational form', I mean an associative, essayistic, digressive, allusive, and densely patterned form of prose writing-one that is attuned to interconnection and relationality. Beginning my discussion with Marcel Proust, the chapters of my dissertation explore the affordances of constellational form in novels published over the last two decades (2001-2020) by Jacqueline Rose, W. G. Sebald, Teju Cole, Lisa Robertson, and Olga Tokarczuk. Throughout, I attend to how the formal relationality of these novels entails further questions of ethical relationality. This dissertation seeks to clarify these questions by situating them in terms of the 'ethical turn' in literary studies, especially as it has been reframed by the significant meta- critical study of Dorothy J. Hale, The Novel and the New Ethics (2020). Hale persuasively demonstrates that there is an implicit consensus among diverse academic accounts of literary ethics: they concur that the novel provides a 'felt encounter with alterity' through its representation of characterological otherness. Yet Hale also acknowledges that 'a strong example of a counteraesthetic to the ethics of alterity can be located in the Proustian tradition'. This dissertation uses Hale's suggestion as a point of departure, exploring in depth how the Proustian 'counteraesthetic' of constellational form provides an alternative way to imagine novelistic ethics. In particular, I examine how constellational form gives rise more to an ethics of relational affinity than an ethics of alterity. Thus, in my first chapter, I revisit Proust's La Prisonnière (1923) through a comparison with Rose's parallel novel Albertine (2001). I propose that Emmanuel Levinas' image of the ethical relation to alterity as captivity and bondage can be rethought as a constellational form of 'bondage' in the sense of 'enchaînement'-links, chains, and associations of ideas. My second chapter offers a revised account of readerly judgement and ethical confoundment through a close analysis of the complex modes of constellational form in Sebald's Austerlitz (2001). My third chapter interprets Teju Cole's 2011 novel Open City as constitutively torn between the ethics of characterological alterity and constellational form, arguing that this tension can be illuminated in terms of Namwali Serpell's discussion of the 'spoiled baroque'. In my final chapter, I examine the feminist, baroque variation on constellational form and ethical relationality offered in Lisa Robertson's 2020 novel The Baudelaire Fractal. Olga Tokarczuk's proposal that the 'constellation novel' is not only a form, but a new novelistic genre then provides the subject of my coda.

الوصول الحر: https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.845600Test

المؤلفون: Klee, Louis

مصطلحات موضوعية: Relational Formalism, Walter Benjamin, Essayistic Novels, The Experience of Reading, Aesthetics, Olga Tokarczuk, New Ethics, W. G. Sebald, Józef Czapski, Association, Baroque, Relationality, Essayism, Lisa Robertson, Jacqueline Rose, The Ethical Turn, Ethics, Theory and the Novel, Emmanuel Levinas, Constellationality, New Formalism, Digression, Marcel Proust, Politics and Form, Constellational Form, Ethics and Form, Judgement, The Novel, Teju Cole

الوصف: This dissertation defines and theorises ‘constellational form’ in the novel, a term I develop from the work of Walter Benjamin. By ‘constellational form’, I mean an associative, essayistic, digressive, allusive, and densely patterned form of prose writing—one that is attuned to interconnection and relationality. Beginning my discussion with Marcel Proust, the chapters of my dissertation explore the affordances of constellational form in novels published over the last two decades (2001–2020) by Jacqueline Rose, W. G. Sebald, Teju Cole, Lisa Robertson, and Olga Tokarczuk. Throughout, I attend to how the formal relationality of these novels entails further questions of ethical relationality. This dissertation seeks to clarify these questions by situating them in terms of the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies, especially as it has been reframed by the significant meta- critical study of Dorothy J. Hale, The Novel and the New Ethics (2020). Hale persuasively demonstrates that there is an implicit consensus among diverse academic accounts of literary ethics: they concur that the novel provides a ‘felt encounter with alterity’ through its representation of characterological otherness. Yet Hale also acknowledges that ‘a strong example of a counteraesthetic to the ethics of alterity can be located in the Proustian tradition’. This dissertation uses Hale’s suggestion as a point of departure, exploring in depth how the Proustian ‘counteraesthetic’ of constellational form provides an alternative way to imagine novelistic ethics. In particular, I examine how constellational form gives rise more to an ethics of relational affinity than an ethics of alterity. Thus, in my first chapter, I revisit Proust’s La Prisonnière (1923) through a comparison with Rose’s parallel novel Albertine (2001). I propose that Emmanuel Levinas’ image of the ethical relation to alterity as captivity and bondage can be rethought as a constellational form of ‘bondage’ in the sense of ‘enchaînement’—links, chains, and associations of ideas. My second chapter offers a revised account of readerly judgement and ethical confoundment through a close analysis of the complex modes of constellational form in Sebald’s Austerlitz (2001). My third chapter interprets Teju Cole’s 2011 novel Open City as constitutively torn between the ethics of characterological alterity and constellational form, arguing that this tension can be illuminated in terms of Namwali Serpell’s discussion of the ‘spoiled baroque’. In my final chapter, I examine the feminist, baroque variation on constellational form and ethical relationality offered in Lisa Robertson’s 2020 novel The Baudelaire Fractal. Olga Tokarczuk’s proposal that the ‘constellation novel’ is not only a form, but a new novelistic genre then provides the subject of my coda.
I had full funding for my doctoral studies from the John Monash Cultural Scholarship (2018-2021).

الوصول الحر: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::0affa65e7a6e58041b24baa3f6dd3bb0Test

المؤلفون: Giesel, Kristina, Singh, Parampreet, Winnekens, David

المصدر: Faculty Publications

مصطلحات موضوعية: canonical approaches, cosmological perturbation theory, Dirac observables, relational formalism

الوصف: The relational formalism based on geometrical clocks and Dirac observables in linearized canonical cosmological perturbation theory is used to introduce an efficient method to find evolution equations for gauge invariant variables. Our method generalizes an existing technique by Pons et al (2010 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 222 012018); (2009 Phys. Rev. D 80 084015) to relate the evolution of gauge invariant observables with the one of gauge variant quantities, and is applied as a demonstration for the longitudinal and spatially flat gauges. Gauge invariant evolution equations for the Bardeen potential and the Mukhanov-Sasaki variable are derived in the extended ADM phase space. Our method establishes a full agreement at the dynamical level between the canonical and conventional cosmological perturbation theory at the linear order using Dirac observables.

وصف الملف: application/pdf

العلاقة: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/physics_astronomy_pubs/5031Test; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/context/physics_astronomy_pubs/article/6111/viewcontent/5031.pdfTest

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab0ed3Test
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/physics_astronomy_pubs/5031Test
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/context/physics_astronomy_pubs/article/6111/viewcontent/5031.pdfTest

المؤلفون: Southwood, Nicholas, author

المصدر: Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality, 2010.

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539659.003.0005Test