Comments on: The Dominant and the Longue Durée

By: “A Dozen Dominants: The Current State of US Indy Lit” | HTMLGIANT

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:41:04 +0000

[...] “Dominant” is a term I stole from the Russian Formalists; it essentially means a feature or aspect of a text that most people feel that the text, to be valid, should demonstrate or otherwise include. (e.g., rhyme was often a dominant in English poetry until the 20th century and the advent of free verse; now the situation is mostly the opposite.) (See also this.) Below, I’ll list “my twelve” dominants, but please see the full article for a more thorough explanation… [...]

By: A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up « BIG OTHER

Mon, 16 May 2011 13:00:24 +0000

[...] Lord knows most movies these days no longer rely on plot (Hollywood films are rarely dominantly narrative [...]

By: A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other « BIG OTHER

A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other « BIG OTHER — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:09:28 +0000

[...] The Dominant and the Longue Durée — a reading of Roman Jakobson’s essential formalist notion of “the dominant” through the French Annales School’s long view of historic progress [...]

By: What’s So New about the New Sentence? « BIG OTHER

What’s So New about the New Sentence? « BIG OTHER — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:00:51 +0000

[...] preexisting influences and materials. Or: a simple shift in an artwork’s organizing dominant (to use Roman Jakobson’s term) can create something exceedingly [...]

By: Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (aka, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal) « BIG OTHER

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:48:37 +0000

[...] The Dominant and the Longue Durée: 921 views (note that this post had an image of Shrek above the jump) [...]

By: Looking at Movements, part 1: The Post-Punk Revival « BIG OTHER

Looking at Movements, part 1: The Post-Punk Revival « BIG OTHER — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:57:04 +0000

[...] between Franz Ferdinand and Interpol. They are both now, for one thing, and subject to the dominant pressures of our time. The above video for “Michael” sees FF dressed in matching dark [...]

By: Throw Your Hands in the Air (The Dionysian Impulse) « BIG OTHER

Throw Your Hands in the Air (The Dionysian Impulse) « BIG OTHER — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:37:25 +0000

[...] contemporary US culture, when viewed broadly, is overwhelmingly Apollonian. Apollonian ideals hold dominance over Dionysian [...]

By: Art as Experience « BIG OTHER

Art as Experience « BIG OTHER — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:24:36 +0000

[...] comics, make children’s books, embrace the performance and conceptual movements that have become dominant in the visual [...]

By: What Is Experimental Art? « BIG OTHER

What Is Experimental Art? « BIG OTHER — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:52:28 +0000

[...] to those question—I’d first like to invoke Roman Jakobson’s notion of the dominant, which I discussed more at length in this post. Jakobson defined the dominant as the focusing component of a work of art: it rules, determines, [...]

By: A D Jameson

A D Jameson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:14:03 +0000

Curt, you always give me so much to read! But I’ll check these things out—thanks. (You’re the one who made me read Braudel in the first place, you’ll recall.)