Displaying words in narrative configurations, reimagining print narrative: William H. Gass, Mark Z. Danielewski, Vanessa Place
This article explores the significance of the visual and textual hybridity of three contemporary American fictions, William Gass’s The Tunnel, Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions and Vanessa Place’s La Medusa. Each of them shows a different mode of generating narrative in visual-verbal assemblage...
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| description | This article explores the significance of the visual and textual hybridity of three contemporary American fictions, William Gass’s The Tunnel, Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions and Vanessa Place’s La Medusa. Each of them shows a different mode of generating narrative in visual-verbal assemblages, which question our relation to reading. Foregrounding the textual process of inscription and opening narrative to iconic embodiments, those texts also draw our attention to the condition of print books and literature in the digital age. They challenge us to find or invent new forms of critical analysis adjusted to their hybrid narrative configurations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b0173a802d948049681ddb2759c9a902022-12-22T03:14:53ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022016-12-0121Displaying words in narrative configurations, reimagining print narrative: William H. Gass, Mark Z. Danielewski, Vanessa PlaceBrigitte FélixThis article explores the significance of the visual and textual hybridity of three contemporary American fictions, William Gass’s The Tunnel, Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions and Vanessa Place’s La Medusa. Each of them shows a different mode of generating narrative in visual-verbal assemblages, which question our relation to reading. Foregrounding the textual process of inscription and opening narrative to iconic embodiments, those texts also draw our attention to the condition of print books and literature in the digital age. They challenge us to find or invent new forms of critical analysis adjusted to their hybrid narrative configurations.http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4740contemporary American fictionimage-textinnovative narrationtextualitytextual studiestypography |
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