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Current Issue Issue 10.2

“Something as definitionally useless as art”: Contemporary Women Writers’ Künstlerromane and the Possibility of a Beautiful World

The Künstlerroman has seen a resurgence of interest among millennial women writers. Describing novels in which the main character progresses toward the creation of art, the Künstlerroman is the perfect vehicle for metafictional interest in creative production—for instance, in the question of whether the novel can at once be imbricated within the market system and level meaningful aesthetic critique against it.

Issue 5.1 Previous Issues

Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World: Does Art Have a Gender Identity?

Diana Wagner January 5, 2016 1 Comment art Bakhtin bias contemporary culture contemporary literature gender identity Hegel ideology manipulation mask perception self self-consciousness sexual bias sexuality Siri Hustvedt stereotype

In her most recent novel The Blazing World (2014), Siri Hustvedt raises the problem of sex biases in the art world. One of the central premises of the book is that works of art executed by women are rated significantly lower than the same piece by a man. “Does art really have a gender identity”, asks Hustvedt …

Issue 3.1 - Special Issue "Critical Environments" Previous Issues

Performing Carbon (in the) Capital

Sam Solnick September 24, 2014 2 Comments art art activism Art Not Oil BP carbon climate change ecocriticism Liberate Tate London Oil City Platform political activism Sunflower

It is rush hour in Liverpool Street Station. Hiding behind a copy of my newspaper I am trying to record a conversation between lobbyists…