Peter Schwenger
Fantasm and fiction
- ISBN 13:
- 9780804734721
- author:
- Peter Schwenger
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1999
- Pages:
- 192
- Genre:
- Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Fantasm and Fiction On Textual Envisioning by Peter Schwenger explores the complex relationship between the reader's mental images and the material text. This analysis delves into how fiction draws from a shared unconscious, using framing strategies and evocative gaps to cue conscious images in the reader.
The book examines works such as Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew, and Rimbaud's "The Vowels", which treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Schwenger also draws on artists' books, marginal drawings by authors, and films to illuminate the process of textual visualization.
Through analyses of photographs and films such as Prospero's Books, Blue, and Picture Theory, Schwenger develops a "Politics of Visualization", shedding light on how readers experience and interpret texts. This insightful study is essential for artists and theorists alike who seek to understand the power of textual visualization.
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