The photograph and the literary text: a transmedia hermeneutics

Diplôme Thèse The photograph and the literary text: a transmedia hermeneutics eng 2011-04-29 author Röösli Michael Heinrich 505352 director Spurr David Anton 134698 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:16282 urn:nbn:ch:unige-162828 L. 719 This study investigates what the processes of reading photographic images and literary texts share in common. A number of seminal theoretical texts published since the 1960s are used to examine the problematic from three different angles: authority, social convention, and narrativity. These texts by theorists like Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin, Wolfgang Iser or Stanley Fish are confronted with artistic works and with each other, and thereby help to renegotiate persistent problems in traditional epistemological distinctions between media like the sequential text and the still image. The primary sources are Julio Cortázar's short story ‘Las babas del diablo' (1959), Michelangelo Antonioni's film 'Blowup' (1966), James Agee's and Walker Evans' 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' (1941), as well as artistic photographs by Duane Michals, Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman. Transmedia Hermeneutics English Literature Photography Literary theory Theory Dewey 420/820 84 Département de langue et de littérature anglaises 3B false 1b7423e0-fc18-4c83-9b38-f006bb561ee5 Thesis Restricted Dissertation (Michael Röösli).pdf 17026380 application/pdf c04d6b928ec5ed2acd37d02079be8abcc9fb954eb2cb1ec15e00f39698574aec restrictedAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de langue et de littérature anglaises

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