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Olsen, David B.

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Sign and design: The visual languages of contemporary fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sign and design: The visual languages of contemporary fiction./
Author:	Olsen, David B.
Description:	202 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-05A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3611046
ISBN:	9781303714047

Sign and design: The visual languages of contemporary fiction.
Olsen, David B.

Sign and design: The visual languages of contemporary fiction. - 202 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Louis University, 2013.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation explores the interactions between verbal narrative and spatial art within the context of 20th and 21st Century literature, with a particular attention to the use of photography, typography, graphic design, illustrations, and other images in fiction. The difference between these verbal/visual hybrids and conventional fiction is not merely a formal concern, but a question of fiction's imposition on the experience of lived life; furthermore, these visual novels interrogate the seeming orderliness and intractable linearity with which stories have been presented in print. Through extended analyses of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jenny Boully's The Body: An Essay, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, this project presents a set of texts that rehabilitate the visual space of the page as a site of simultaneity and multiplicity. The contribution of the visual both in and as fiction is read as a complex arrangement that treats narrative time less like a clock (whisking away the minutes with its forward momentum) and more like a calendar (a map upon which past and future are at once equally available to sight). Working from an interdisciplinary array of arguments that spans critical theory, literary analysis, media studies, and art history, this project contends that the seemingly conservative arrangement of conventional fiction literally presents a counternarrative that is at odds with a phenomenological or epistemological experience of the world. The project's emphasis on verbal/visual hybrids is not meant to devalue or dethrone traditional novels, however, and design does not undo or negate the sign in this formulation. Instead, the image becomes an occasion to more fully understand the ways in which we find time in our fiction, film, new media, and art.

ISBN: 9781303714047Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Sign and design: The visual languages of contemporary fiction.
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