scholarly journals Image and Word in Postmodern Poetry: Friederike Mayröcker’s BROTWOLKE

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jutta Schloon

Abstract This article explores the interplay of visual arts and poetic images in postmodern poetry, focusing on the case of Friederike Mayröcker’s poem BROTWOLKE, nach Karla Woisnitza (1996) [BREADCLOUD, after Karla Woisnitza]. The article shows that BROTWOLKE belongs to a group of texts whose titles indicate an ekphrasis or an intermedial quality, but whose specific point of reference is absent. Rather than referencing to a specific painting, the poem thus showcases different aspects of the visual. Offering a close reading of the poem, the article explores Mayröcker’s special technique of image-writing and its dynamic effect on the reader. The article argues that the poem both “shows the word” and “writes the image.” It is shown that Mayröcker’s stream-of-consciousness is a process that refers to the act of writing in the first place and then to an inventory of texts and images that float the text as a stream of sense-data.

Author(s):  
Rita Charon

This chapter describes one framework for teaching close reading to groups of learners. It proposes that learners focus on one narrative feature at a time—for example, time, space, voice, and metaphor—over the course of a seminar. For each feature, students read and discuss seminal conceptual writings to situate them in the classical and contemporary critical discourse. The chapter provides capsule summaries of these four narrative features that guide students in their own close reading of texts. The discussion of temporality, for example, includes theological, philosophical, scientific, and literary/narratological writings and the close reading of literary, visual arts, and musical texts that display temporal complexity. In the chapter are described particular teaching sessions in a variety of settings where learners read and respond in writing to short texts that highlight a particular narrative feature. The teaching texts and those written by students are reproduced in the chapter.


Leonardo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 551-552
Author(s):  
G.W. Smith

With the assumption that the extraordinary discoveries being made in planetary science will soon trigger a conviction of the likelihood of contact with sentient extraterrestrial beings—and with the further realization that such beings may well depend upon our visual arts as their primary point of reference in respect to our own species—this short paper uses an imaginative approach to develop some corollary ideas, and, in addition, to throw a spotlight on pioneering “systems art” theorist and visionary cosmic citizen Jack Burnham.


Experiment ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Inge Wierda

Abstract This article examines the historical and spiritual significance of Radonezh soil and its impact on the artistic practice of the Abramtsevo circle. Through a close reading of three paintings—Viktor Vasnetsov’s Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1881) and Alenushka (1881), and Elena Polenova’s Pokrov Mother of God (1883)—it analyzes how the Abramtsevo artists negotiated Saint Sergius’s legacy alongside their own experiences of the sacred sites in this area and especially the Pokrovskii churches. These artworks demonstrate how, in line with the prevalent nineteenth-century Slavophile interests, Radonezh soil provided a fertile ground for articulating a distinct Russian Orthodox identity in the visual arts of the 1880s and continues to inspire artists to this day.


2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Paulina Ambroży

Abstract The study is a close reading of Moore’s poem “The Fish” (1918) through the conceptual lens of Gilles Deleuze’s trope of the fold, as explained in his influential 1988 study of Leibniz, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. The purpose is to explore Moore’s (neo)baroque sensibility and her peculiar penchant for Baroque tropes, images and forms. The Deleuzian concept of the fold, with its rich epistemological implications and broad cultural applicability as the universal trope of crisis, change, unrest and transience, helps to comprehend Moore’s own philosophical and aesthetic concerns. The study, in accord with the interdiscursive character of the contemporary studies of modernism draws from art history, philosophy, theory, literature, and visual arts, to uncover a strong Baroque undercurrent in the poet’s polyphonic imagination. Seen in the light of Deleuze’s fold, Moore’s poem emerges as a quasi-Baroque ruin, a sunken cathedral-cum-graveyard, with a theatrical chiaroscuro lighting and folding and unfolding of sense, which both shelters and entombs the severely wounded modernist soul.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 7-33
Author(s):  
Grażyna Maria Teresa Branny

The present article is part of a larger project on Conrad’s less known short fiction, the area of his writing which is largely undervalued, and even deprecated at times. The paper’s aim is to enhance the appreciation of “A Smile of Fortune,” by drawing attention to its “inner texture” as representative of Conrad’s “art of expression,” especially in view of the writer’s own belief in the supremacy of form over content as well as “suggestiveness” over “explicitness” in his fiction. To achieve this aim a New Critical (“close reading”), intertextual and comparative approaches to Conrad’s story have been adopted, involving nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literary texts, i.e., both those preceding and those following the publication of Conrad’s ’Twixt Land and Sea (1912) volume featuring the tale in question. The intertextual reading of “A Smile of Fortune” against Bernard Malamud’s short story “The Magic Barrel,” Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, with Light in August as a point of reference, reveals the workings in Conrad’s story of the modernist device of denegation, which, alongside antithesis and oxymoron, seems to be largely responsible for the tale’s contradictions and ambiguities, which should thus be perceived as the story’s asset rather than flaw. The textual evidence of Conrad’s tale, as well as its comparison with three short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and Peter Taylor’s “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time,” seem to confirm the presence of the implications of the theme of incest in Conrad’s text, heretofore unrecognized in criticism. Overall, the foregoing analysis of “A Smile of Fortune” hopes to account for, if not disentangle, the story’s complex narratological meanderings and seemingly insoluble ambiguities, particularly as regards character and motive, naming Conrad rather than Faulkner the precursor of denegation.


Panoptikum ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Mateusz Felczak

The aim of this text is to discern and analyze aesthetic tropes in selected fantasy cRPG games in the areas of visual arts and music. The analysis is con­ducted in the context of American romanticism, especially Hudson River School of painting, and musical works belonging to the dungeon synth genre. Through the enumeration and close reading of the elements pertaining both gameplay and digital landscapes, it is argued that the specific type of romantic imagery and its philosophical underpinnings may have influenced the recurring themes in cRPG games, including character development, avatar’s agency and player’s projected disposition towards the game world.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Barnard

Julian M�ller, in his advocacy of a narrative theology, has called for an autobiographical theology. In addition to Julian M�ller�s plea, the author turned to what may be seen as the liturgical and ritual variant of this method, namely autoethnography. Thus he would honour Julian M�ller and his tireless commitment to Practical Theology. Autobiographical and autoethnographical theology do not start from well-ordered and systematically arranged knowledge, but from a life as it has developed and as it is developing in its connections with others. Difference is therefore a keyword in the method. Others and other worlds evoke the consciousness of differences, incite reflections on the cracks, fractures and fissures that show themselves to the self and provoke negotiations with the otherness of the other. Never in his existence as a theologian had the author experienced this process more intensely than in his contacts with colleagues and religious practices in South Africa. It was described in the article how the author became acquainted with South Africa and, more particularly, with its liturgical rituals and visual arts since 2001. The different experiences of successive visits to Church Square in Pretoria functioned as a point of reference in the article. It was shown how the self re-negotiated its position in the world through the confrontation with a totally �other� � in this case, South African liturgical rituals and visual arts. This re-negotiation focused on the Western academic position of the self when confronted with African epistemologies and ontologies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by R. Frost and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by W. B. Yeats are two of the most representative poems of these poets. Part of their universal appeal lies in their messages and their craftsmanship, and both the qualities relate to the New Critical conception of poetry. Since New Criticism as a literary theory, originating in the early twentieth century, seeks to explore poems through some central points of references in a close reading, this present study takes paradoxes as a central point of reference for a close reading of the two poems and attempts to unveil their poetic enigma by examining what tensions the paradoxes create through the speakers’ grappling with the dilemmas they are facing, how the paradoxes are being resolved or left unresolved, what similarities the two poems share in this regard, and what poetic unity the poems ultimately attain through the development of these paradoxes.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 527
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kocalan ◽  
Tansel Türkdoğan

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>In the 20th century and especially in the 21st century, the theory and the concepts such as simulation', ‘manipulation', ‘illusion', 'secret' and 'reality' have been interpreted differently from old times in several disciplines especially in visual arts. Some misleading techniques within various methods and aesthetic rules have been applied in the way that they deal with these concepts which are contained in art dynamics serving as a language of visual expression. Though the performed images within ‘Anamorphosis', its alias ‘anamorphic illusion' technique which is one of the most interesting techniques, at first glance look like difficult and chaotic constructions to solve, they represent a fictitious image, space or surface with the purpose of deceiving and they also include visual effects, deformation, and utopia.In the anamorphic works that change as long as it moves and can only be resolved from a specific point and angle, they become a part of the spectator composition in order to discover the truth and meaning and thus interactive situations also occur.</p><p>In this research, with an overview of the anamorphous technique’s form and development in historical process, was carried out in order to examine and evaluate the approach styles of the concept of Illusion which has modern artist Felice Varini who interprets this technique by associating with light, color, texture, mass, place, space, spacing and surface concepts. In accordance with the aim of the study, firstly the definition, types, methods and development process of the Anamorphosis technique have been examined, then some examples of Varini's work, which the first sight are perceived as having complex fragments and manipulating the perception of space at the same time have been presented and the effect of this situation on the viewer and the way of interpretation depending on the misleading features have been discussed.</p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p>20. yüzyıl ve özellikle de 21. yüzyılda ‘simülasyon’, ‘manipülasyon’, ‘yanılsama’, ‘giz’ ve ‘gerçeklik’ gibi kuram ve kavramlar, başta görsel sanatlar olmak üzere çeşitli disiplinlerde önceki dönemlerden farklı biçimlerde yorumlanmıştır. Görsel anlatım diline hizmet eden sanat dinamiklerinin içinde barındırdığı bu kavramları ele alış biçimlerinde çeşitli yöntemler ve estetik kuralları dâhilinde de bazı yanıltıcı teknikler uygulanmıştır. En ilgi çekici tekniklerden biri olan ‘anamorfoz’ diğer adıyla ‘anamorfik illüzyon’ tekniği ile gerçekleştirilen görüntüler, ilk bakışta her ne kadar çözümlenmesi zor ve kaotik yapılar gibi gözükseler de yanıltma amacıyla birlikte gerçeği, imgeyi, mekânı veya yüzeyi temsil etmektedirler. Aynı zamanda bu görüntüler deformasyonu, görsel efekti ve ütopyayı da içinde barındırmaktadırlar. Hareket edildiği sürece değişen, ancak belirli bir noktadan ve açıdan çözümlenebilen anamorfik çalışmalarda gerçeği ve anlamı keşfetme yolunda, seyirci kompozisyonun parçası haline gelmekte ve bu sayede bazı interaktif durumlar da gerçekleşmektedir.</p><p>Bu araştırma, anamorfoz tekniğinin biçemine ve tarihsel süreçte gelişimine genel bir bakış ile birlikte; bu tekniği ışık, renk, doku, kütle, mekân, uzam, espas ve yüzey kavramlarıyla ilişkilendirerek yorumlayan Çağdaş sanatçı Felice Varini’nin ‘yanılsama’ kavramına yaklaşım biçimlerini incelemek ve değerlendirmek amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışma amacı doğrultusunda, ilk önce Anamorfoz tekniğinin tanımı, çeşitleri, yöntemleri ve gelişim süreci incelenmiş, sonrasında ise Varini’nin ilk bakışta karmaşık parçalara sahipmiş gibi algılanan ve aynı zamanda mekân algısını manipüle eden çalışmalarından bazı örnekler sunularak izleyici üzerinde yarattığı etki ve yanıltıcı özelliklerine bağlı olarak yorumlama biçimleri ele alınmıştır.</p>


Author(s):  
Elżbieta Janicka

Herbarium Polonorum (Heimatphotographie)The main theme of the text is the wartime and postwar history of the area of the German Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II, seen from the perspective of the production of landscape – with a special focus on the identity aspect, i.e. the nationalization of nature and the naturalization of the nation. The argument refers to imaging conventions of nature and ethnographic photography, like the German Heimatphotographie and the Polish Fatherland Photography, that go along with landscape production.This paper also touches upon the issue of classification as the principle organizing the workings of the human mind as well as the uses made of classification in terms of cognition and identity – up to and including the deadly consequences thereof. Another crucial point of reference is the history of the herbarium as a form of organizing knowledge (Maria Sibylla Merian, Rosa Luxemburg, Szymon Syreński) and its connections with the visual arts (Krzysztof Jung, Alina Szapocznikow).The rich iconography illustrates the analyzed representation patterns, with particular focus on the axiosemiotics of Polish antisemitism, going back to its elitist forms in Jagiellonian Poland. The text summarizes fifteen years of the author’s work on Herbarium, a photographic project carried out on the site of the former German Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II.Herbarium Polonorum (Heimatphotographie)Osnową tekstu jest wojenna i powojenna historia terenu niemieckiego nazistowskiego obozu zagłady Treblinka II z perspektywy produkcji krajobrazu – ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem aspektu tożsamościowego, czyli unarodowienia natury i naturalizacji narodu. Wywód odnosi się do towarzyszących tej produkcji konwencji obrazowania w fotografii przyrodniczej i krajoznawczej, takich jak niemiecka Heimatphotographie i polska fotografia ojczysta.Poruszone zostało też zagadnienie klasyfikacji jako zasady funkcjonowania ludzkiego umysłu wraz z jej zastosowaniami poznawczymi oraz/lub tożsamościowymi – do morderczych konsekwencji włącznie. Ważny punkt odniesienia stanowi ponadto historia zielnika jako formy organizacji wiedzy (Maria Sibylla Merian, Róża Luksemburg, Szymon Syreński) oraz jej związki ze w sztukami wizualnymi (Krzysztof Jung, Alina Szapocznikow). Bogaty materiał ilustracyjny odnosi się do analizowanych sposobów reprezentacji ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem aksjosemiotyki polskiego antysemityzmu, sięgając do jego elitarnych form w Polsce Jagiellonów. Tekst podsumowuje piętnaście lat pracy autorki nad projektem fotograficznym Zielnik na terenie byłego niemieckiego nazistowskiego obozu zagłady Żydów Treblinka II.


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