As film is, so goes the novel: The image, film ekphrasis, and history in the contemporary novel
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Title
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As film is, so goes the novel: The image, film ekphrasis, and history in the contemporary novel
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:7e72562d75c3:10708
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identifier
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10605
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Creator
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Aykol, Ece,
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Contributor
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Gerhard Joseph
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Date
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2010
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Modern literature | English literature | Film studies | American literature | Middle Eastern literature | Adam Thorpe | film ekphrasis | history | memory | Orhan Pamuk | Paul Auster
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Abstract
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My dissertation studies the use of the verbal representation of analog film in the novels of contemporary writers Paul Auster, Adam Thorpe, and Orhan Pamuk. I look at these authors' use of the moving image in relation to the existing poetics of the ekphrasis of still images and art objects. Film, understood as the "temporalization of space," informs the way in which I interpret film ekphrasis different from the ekphrasis of still objects that "spatialize temporality." In trying to emulate this temporal art form with words, these authors create a poetics of film ekphrasis, which constitutes a representation of the past in the present continuous. Their allusion to the analog image enables them to find creative means of constructing history and memory. My study also addresses the "digital" image and explains how its construction of time differs from the analog image. In order to grasp the tension between the analog and digital, and to reveal how visual artists are responding to emerging technologies, I turn to the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Gondry, and Wim Wenders, as well as to JoAnn Verburg's photographs and Sam Taylor Wood's mixed media art. Understanding current practices in the visual arts, I suggest, can produce interpretive strategies for the ekphrasis of digital films.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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English
