Witnessing Inferno: Visual Representation and Perception of Light in a Space of Trauma
The act of witnessing a process of violence generates testimonies which, in their turn, may foster different reactions not only of a first-hand experience witness but also of a second and even third-hand experience witnesses. Such experiences could be identified in the case of a literary testimon...
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| description | The act of witnessing a process of violence generates testimonies which, in
their turn, may foster different reactions not only of a first-hand experience witness
but also of a second and even third-hand experience witnesses. Such experiences
could be identified in the case of a literary testimony delivered by Dante in his “Divina
Commedia”. Bearing witness to the traumas suffered by the characters encountered
during his journey inside Inferno, Dante gave account of a first-hand experience
which was transposed first into a poetic form and later into distinct visual
representations of his literary imagery. The visual perception of the famous book
illustrations for Dante’s Inferno transforms the viewers into third-hand experience
witnesses. The study intends to analyse the use of perspective, light, main axis and the
arrangement of characters as employed by Gustave Doré and William Blake for
illustrating the sufferings endured by Paolo and Francesca da Rimini. The analysis
aims to reveal the visual effects destined to influence the perception of this specific
space of trauma. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e66f9087c4264c81ad74d0eda0e947472023-11-02T05:05:21ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2734-59632019-10-01IX/20192829210.31178/UBR.9.2.9Witnessing Inferno: Visual Representation and Perception of Light in a Space of TraumaCarmen Dominte0National University of Music in Bucharest; Romania.The act of witnessing a process of violence generates testimonies which, in their turn, may foster different reactions not only of a first-hand experience witness but also of a second and even third-hand experience witnesses. Such experiences could be identified in the case of a literary testimony delivered by Dante in his “Divina Commedia”. Bearing witness to the traumas suffered by the characters encountered during his journey inside Inferno, Dante gave account of a first-hand experience which was transposed first into a poetic form and later into distinct visual representations of his literary imagery. The visual perception of the famous book illustrations for Dante’s Inferno transforms the viewers into third-hand experience witnesses. The study intends to analyse the use of perspective, light, main axis and the arrangement of characters as employed by Gustave Doré and William Blake for illustrating the sufferings endured by Paolo and Francesca da Rimini. The analysis aims to reveal the visual effects destined to influence the perception of this specific space of trauma. https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CarmenDominte.pdfinfernorepresentationperceptionvisuallightshadow |
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| title | Witnessing Inferno: Visual Representation and Perception of Light in a Space of Trauma |
| title_full | Witnessing Inferno: Visual Representation and Perception of Light in a Space of Trauma |
| title_fullStr | Witnessing Inferno: Visual Representation and Perception of Light in a Space of Trauma |
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| title_short | Witnessing Inferno: Visual Representation and Perception of Light in a Space of Trauma |
| title_sort | witnessing inferno visual representation and perception of light in a space of trauma |
| topic | inferno representation perception visual light shadow |
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