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Cinematographic reading and catalogues in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass".
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Creator
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Jaramillo, Manuel J., Florida Atlantic University, Sheehan, Thomas
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Walt Whitman's visual imagination was influenced by paintings, panoramas, and photography. His expansive vision reflects changes in methods of perception. Whitman was also an influence on early filmmakers, like Dziga Vertov. Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory and Whitman's poetry reflect each other in their attempts to attain a "fresh" perception, to see the world "photogenically." Consequently, there is more than just similitude between Whitman and cinema. In fact, both are meant to be seen....
Show moreWalt Whitman's visual imagination was influenced by paintings, panoramas, and photography. His expansive vision reflects changes in methods of perception. Whitman was also an influence on early filmmakers, like Dziga Vertov. Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory and Whitman's poetry reflect each other in their attempts to attain a "fresh" perception, to see the world "photogenically." Consequently, there is more than just similitude between Whitman and cinema. In fact, both are meant to be seen. Although the idea of reading Whitman "cinematographically" has been mentioned by some critics, none has suggested how this reading process is to be enacted or understood by the reader. The Reader Response theory of Wolfgang Iser is used to show that the reader, when encountering a text, is involved in a process of ideation, during which mental images are influenced by and derived in part from textual schemata and indeterminacies. The cinematographic reading is, then, highly imaginative, resulting in the creation of a "virtual" text. When examined, it can be shown how Walt Whitman's catalogues intend to carry the reader along in a process of "indirect" ideation during which the structures and images of the catalogues become realized by the reader's imagination.
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Date Issued
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2004
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13182
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Subject Headings
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Motion pictures and literature, Reader-response criticism, Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation, Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Leaves of Grass, Discourse analysis, Literary
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The book and the labyrinth were one and the same: The figure of the labyrinth in Danielewski, Borges and Eco.
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Palmer, Jedediah., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
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This thesis examines the figure of the labyrinth in the contemporary novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and in relation to works by Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. House of Leaves presents not only labyrinths with which its characters interact, but a seemingly material, textual labyrinth its readers are forced to navigate. This thesis argues that what are important about these features are that they serve to both extend the broader theoretical concerns of the book, and to ...
Show moreThis thesis examines the figure of the labyrinth in the contemporary novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and in relation to works by Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. House of Leaves presents not only labyrinths with which its characters interact, but a seemingly material, textual labyrinth its readers are forced to navigate. This thesis argues that what are important about these features are that they serve to both extend the broader theoretical concerns of the book, and to (paradoxically) invest the reader more deeply in "the story" and to greater emotional effect.
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Date Issued
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2004
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13152
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Literature--Psychological aspects, Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Borges, Jorge Luis,--1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation, Eco, Umberto, Danielewski, Mark Z--House of leaves, Reader-response criticism, Postmodernism (Literature)--United States
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