Visual Devices In Contemporary Prose Fiction

Author : Simon Barton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137467363
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction written by Simon Barton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction.

Author : Ed: Darlington, Hooper, Seddon, Tew, Zouaoui
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326921525
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BSJ: The BS Johnson Journal 3 written by Ed: Darlington, Hooper, Seddon, Tew, Zouaoui and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sami Sjöberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000984435
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experimental Book Object written by Sami Sjöberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Experimental Book Object shows why and how books matter in the 21st century. Digital and audio platforms are commonplace, and other fields of art beyond literature have increasingly embraced books and publication as their medium of choice. Nevertheless, the manifold book object persists and continues to inspire various types of experimentation. This volume sets forth an unprecedented approach where literary and media theory are entangled with design practitioners’ artistic research and process descriptions. By probing the paradigm of the codex, this collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary experimentation that has challenged what books are and could be from the perspectives of materiality, mediation, and visual and typographic design. Investigations into less-studied areas and cases of performativity demonstrate what experimental books do by interacting with their systemic and cultural environments. The volume offers a multifaceted and multidisciplinary view of the book object, the book design and publishing processes, and their significance in the digital age.

Author : Jane Alison
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226146
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meander, Spiral, Explode written by Jane Alison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." ―Maris Kreizman, Vulture A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 | A Poets & Writers Best Books for Writers As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one path through fiction we’re most likely to travel― one we’re actually told to follow―and that’s the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?" W. G. Sebald’s Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc--or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her “museum of specimens” include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.

Author : Glyn White
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130777
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the graphic surface written by Glyn White and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book. It reappraises the range of effects it is possible to create through the use of graphic devices and explores why literary criticism has dismissed such features as either unreadable experimental gimmicks or, more recently, as examples of the worst kind of postmodern decadence. Through the examination of problematical texts which utilise the graphic surface in innovative and unusual ways, including Samuel Beckett’s Watt, B. S. Johnson’s Albert Angelo, Christine Brooke-Rose’s Thru and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, this book demonstrates that an awareness of the graphic surface can make significant contributions to interpretation.

Author : Lyutsiya Staub
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3772002137
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas written by Lyutsiya Staub and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyses the relationship between visual art and contemporary art fiction by addressing the problem of the ekphrastic re-presentation and re-interpretation of an Impressionist figure painting through its composition, selected details of the painting and allusion to specific techniques used in the process of creating the masterpiece based on the examples of the following novels: Luncheon of the Boating Party (LOTBP) by Susan Vreeland (2007), Mademoiselle Victorine (MV) by Debra Finerman (2007), With Violets (WV) by Elizabeth Robards (2008), Dancing for Degas (DFD) by Kathryn Wagner (2010) and The Painted Girls (TPG) by Cathy Marie Buchanan (2013).

Author : B. S. Johnson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811209816
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Mother Normal written by B. S. Johnson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shares the thoughts and memories of eight elderly men and women living in a nursing home." -- Amazon.com viewed November 25, 2020.

Author : Joe Bray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136301747
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature written by Joe Bray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the future? The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and multifaceted field, with essays on: the history of literary experiment from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present the impact of new media on literature, including multimodal literature, digital fiction and code poetry the development of experimental genres from graphic narratives and found poetry through to gaming and interactive fiction experimental movements from Futurism and Surrealism to Postmodernism, Avant-Pop and Flarf. Shedding new light on often critically neglected terrain, the contributors introduce this vibrant area, define its current state, and offer exciting new perspectives on its future. This volume is the ideal introduction for those approaching the study of experimental literature for the first time or looking to further their knowledge.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202028
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both a contribution to an interdisciplinary study of literature and other media and a pioneering application of cognitive and frame-theoretical approaches to these fields. In the temporal media a privileged place for the coding of cognitive frames are the beginnings while in spatial media physical borders take over many framing functions. This volume investigates forms and functions of such framing spaces from a transmedial perspective by juxtaposing and comparing the framing potential of individual media and works. After an introductory theoretical essay, which aims to clarify basic concepts, the volume presents eighteen contributions by scholars from various disciplines who deal with individual media. The first section is dedicated to framing in or through the visual arts and includes discussions of the illustrations of medieval manuscripts, the practice of framing pictures from the Middle Ages to Magritte and contemporary American art as well as framings in printmaking and architecture. The second part deals with literary texts and ranges from studies centred on framings in frame stories to essays focussing on the use of paratextual, textual and non-verbal media in the framings of classical, medieval and modern German and American narrative literature; moreover, it includes studies on defamiliarized framings, e.g. by Julio Cortázar and Jasper Fforde, as well as an essay on end-framing practices. Sections on framings in film (including the trailers of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings) and in music (operatic overtures and Schumann’s piano pieces) provide perspectives on further media. The volume is of relevance to students and scholars from various fields: intermedia studies, cognitive approaches to the media, literary and film studies, history of art, and musicology.

Author : University of Michigan
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book University of Michigan Official Publication written by University of Michigan and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1973 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number is the catalogue of a specific school or college of the University.