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Ben Jonson and His Reader: An Aesthetics of Ant agonism

Ben Jonson and His Reader: An Aesthetics of Ant agonism raNJaN GhoSh An Aesthetics of Antagonism But thou hast squared thy rules, by what is good; And art, three ages yet, from understood: And (I dare say) in it there lies much wit Lost, till thy readers can grow up to it. (Francis Beaumont, "Upon Catiline") "--neque, me ut miretur turba./ laboro: / Contentus paucis lectoribus" [I do not work so that I will be admired by the crowd, but am content with a few readers] (Sermones, 1.10.73­74) The Master said, "Look at what he uses, observe what he comes from, examine what he finds peace in. Can a man hide? Can a man hide?" (Analects 2.10) Antagonism is not about the clash of opposites but a kind of refusal to accept the existence of opposites. It is negotiation and debate over contraries in a space which does not isolate one from the other; rather, it makes room for progress by acknowledging opposition as friendship. Antagonism in the transcultural poetics of understanding literature speaks of "world-making" which discounts a "false universalism" usually set up through absolute standards of thought and reductive norms of acceptability. By relying on our abilities to appreciate simultaneously the relational and the disrelational, antagonism http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Ben Jonson and His Reader: An Aesthetics of Ant agonism

The Comparatist , Volume 37 (1) – May 12, 2013

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raNJaN GhoSh An Aesthetics of Antagonism But thou hast squared thy rules, by what is good; And art, three ages yet, from understood: And (I dare say) in it there lies much wit Lost, till thy readers can grow up to it. (Francis Beaumont, "Upon Catiline") "--neque, me ut miretur turba./ laboro: / Contentus paucis lectoribus" [I do not work so that I will be admired by the crowd, but am content with a few readers] (Sermones, 1.10.73­74) The Master said, "Look at what he uses, observe what he comes from, examine what he finds peace in. Can a man hide? Can a man hide?" (Analects 2.10) Antagonism is not about the clash of opposites but a kind of refusal to accept the existence of opposites. It is negotiation and debate over contraries in a space which does not isolate one from the other; rather, it makes room for progress by acknowledging opposition as friendship. Antagonism in the transcultural poetics of understanding literature speaks of "world-making" which discounts a "false universalism" usually set up through absolute standards of thought and reductive norms of acceptability. By relying on our abilities to appreciate simultaneously the relational and the disrelational, antagonism

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Published: May 12, 2013

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