specularization

I began with Jerrold Hogle's "the ghost of the counterfeit", a reading of the rise of the Gothic as the product of the modern shift towards the condition of "simulation", which was independent of technology, and have ended up with a process of specularization driven by it.

Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

Don’t these criteria contribute to the aestheticization/specularization of the poem’s subject, or, to the containment and foreclosure of the subjectivity production of the poem? etc, etc

Five ways to judge a Poem’s Merit 2009