Within, Aside, and Too Much: On Parentheticality across Media

TY - JOUR

T1 - Within, Aside, and Too Much

T2 - On Parentheticality across Media

AU - Scheible, Jeffrey Paul

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - In the context of the proliferation of textuality in the new media age, and the changing demands of adequately analyzing it, Scheible’s essay explores the possibilities of a reading strategy that asks how we might take parentheses as starting points for critical thinking, looking across three primary media sites: Jacques Derrida’s writing, criticism of the televisual laugh track, and Miranda July’s 2005 film Me and You and Everyone We Know. Proposing we consider not only parentheses as textual marks but also “parentheticality” as a relational structure, Scheible’s essay weaves in and out of disciplinary boundaries and questions about the legacies of critical theory, comedy, sound, sexuality, independent filmmaking, and new media aesthetics.

AB - In the context of the proliferation of textuality in the new media age, and the changing demands of adequately analyzing it, Scheible’s essay explores the possibilities of a reading strategy that asks how we might take parentheses as starting points for critical thinking, looking across three primary media sites: Jacques Derrida’s writing, criticism of the televisual laugh track, and Miranda July’s 2005 film Me and You and Everyone We Know. Proposing we consider not only parentheses as textual marks but also “parentheticality” as a relational structure, Scheible’s essay weaves in and out of disciplinary boundaries and questions about the legacies of critical theory, comedy, sound, sexuality, independent filmmaking, and new media aesthetics.

U2 - 10.1215/00029831-2367319

DO - 10.1215/00029831-2367319

M3 - Article

SN - 0002-9831

VL - 85

SP - 689

EP - 717

JO - AMERICAN LITERATURE

JF - AMERICAN LITERATURE

IS - 4

ER -