Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual EnvisioningStanford University Press, 1999 - 174 Seiten Mental image, dream, fantasy, hallucination--all these are comprised in the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasm. Perhaps only such a multifarious concept is adequate to the range of visual elements involved in the experience of reading fiction, or of writing it. Soon after the birth of the novel, doctors expressed concern that readers might be possessed by what they were reading, haunted by textual fantasms. Contemporary writers like John Gardner, Maurice Blanchot, and John Banville figure this possession as a kind of textual dreaming: fiction, like dream, draws from a fantasmal unconscious. For the reader's images to become conscious, however, they must be cued by a material text through framing strategies and evocative gaps. This book analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works--such as Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew, and Rimbaud's "The Vowels"--that treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Although the specific images of individual readers cannot be predicted, one can speculate on the modes of these images: are they focused or fogged, schematic or emotive, fleeting or enduring? These are questions not only for theorists but for artists who make textual visualization visible. Drawing on artists' books, marginal drawings by authors, and films such as Prospero's Books, Fantasm and Fiction illuminates the process of textual visualization. The author develops, in addition, "A Politics of Visualization" through analyses of the photographs of David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman's film Blue, and Nicole Brossard's novel Picture Theory. In this richly suggestive study, the fantasm emerges as a crucial aspect not only of reading but of any kind of envisioning. |
Inhalt
Entering the Book I | 1 |
Possessed by Words | 8 |
Dream Book | 26 |
Seeing the Forest for the Trees | 47 |
Painters of Reading | 74 |
Framing the Fantasm | 100 |
A Politics of Visualization | 120 |
Afterimage | 146 |
Works Cited | 163 |
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act of reading becomes Blake blank blind Bloch blue book's Brossard Calvino Cassandra chapter Christa Wolf Coleridge Coleridge's color consciousness course create darkness David Wojnarowicz depicted Derrida described drawing dream effects Elaine Scarry essay experience Eye and Mind fantasm fantasmatic fiction figure film forest frame Freud Gass ghosts holographic Humument hypnagogia hypnagogic idea imagination inside invisible Isidore Isou Jan Sawka Jarman kind Kubla Khan Lacan language meaning memory mental images Merleau-Ponty Mervyn Peake metonymy mind's eye mirror mode Nabokov narrator nature never Neverending Story novel object painting paradoxical parergon Peter Greenaway Phillips physical picture poem Poulet present produced Prospero's Prospero's Books reader representation Rimbaud says Scarry scene seen sense sentence shape shifting signifier space story structure theory thing tion Titus Groan Todorov Tom Phillips trait Trans trees turn uncanny unconscious verbal visible vision visionary visual Wolf words writing
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