Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger - Couverture souple

Gibbons, Luke

 
9780990468622: Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0990468623 ISBN 13 : 9780990468622
Editeur : Quinnipiac University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845 - 1852 - the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music. This publications initiative is devised to augment the Museum experience, and is part of the Museum's commitment to making its collection accessible to audiences of all ages and levels of educational interest. The booklets are produced to the highest level, beautifully illustrated with works from the Museum and related collections. It ensures that audiences have access to the latest scholarship as it pertains to both the historical and contemporary dimensions of the collection. The absence of photographs of the Irish Famine has been attributed to the shortcomings of a medium then it its infancy, but it may also be due to certain limitations in the visible itself. Susan Sontag argued that images can evoke sentimental responses but cannot address wider political questions of obligation and justice. Luke Gibbons revisits representations of the Famine, particularly those in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum to argue that images can not only give visual pleasure but demand ethical interventions on the part of spectators. This fusing of sympathy and affective response with the right of redress is conveyed by a 'judicious obscurity,' a determination not to show all, which places an obligation on the spectator to complete what is beyond representation, or what is left to the imagination.

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À propos de l?auteur

Luke Gibbons is Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at Maynooth University.

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Éditeur
Quinnipiac University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0990468623
ISBN 13 
9780990468622
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
40
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Personne responsable
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