This dissertation analyzes the early modern emergence of a provisional narrative and imagistic mode which suspends the linear progress of time through past, present, and future as it evokes multiple and simultaneous probabilities. I call this probabilistic narrative-image the Subjunctive Aesthetic. As the term suggests, the forms most defined linguistic markers are terms like should, could, and might. My analysis connects these grammatical markers to images of planning, especially building plans. The Aesthetic, in both text and image, moves in a ranging series of probable outcomes, as opposed to a single narrative plot. Plansarchitectural ground plots, governmental plans, and diagrammed military tacticstypify the Aesthetic. But other forms, especially utopian pieces, grapple with probability and space. The image-narratives of the Subjunctive Aesthetic mediate between theory and history, the past and the future. Ultimately, the images and stories of the Subjunctive Aesthetic overlap and pivot between the practical and the imaginary.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-07102013-142607 |
| Date | 19 July 2013 |
| Creators | Alijewicz, Michael James |
| Contributors | Kathryn Schwarz, Katherine Crawford, Leah Marcus, Lynn Enterline |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07102013-142607/ |
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