A Poetics of the Fragment – Andreea Tereza Nitisor

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Whether a precondition of poiesis, aisthesis and noesis, an ideological assumption, an elaborate artifice, a strategy of mystification, or a destabilising constellation of causes and effects, the fragment has shaped both Western and Eastern cultures, eliciting a staggering diversity of artistic, philosophical, theoretical and critical responses. From the ruins, remnants, scraps, shards, and incomplete manuscripts that survived from Antiquity, through the Renaissance humanism that prompted an investigation of somatic fragments, through the French moralists and Montaignes criture fragmentaire, via the eighteenth-century novelistic ars combinatoria, from Romanticism (which shifted the emphasis on the fragment as philosophical seedling’ ripe with potentialities) to modernist an …