THE ART SYMBOL AS ROOT METAPHOR: AN INTERTEXTUAL ANALYSIS.
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Title
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THE ART SYMBOL AS ROOT METAPHOR: AN INTERTEXTUAL ANALYSIS.
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Identifier
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AAI8515619
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identifier
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8515619
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Creator
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DE ROECK, GALINA LITVINOV.
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Date
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1985
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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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Literature, Comparative
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Abstract
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The principal assumption of this dissertation is that the use of art references in the narrative is indicative of essential strategies of prose fiction. To test this hypothesis I have undertaken a systematic description of the forms in which art-related figuration occurs in novels and I have sought to determine whether a consistent set of functions may be ascribed to such tropes.;I have subdivided Part I into three chapters, each focusing on a specific category of art: the textual mode, the pictorial model and the musical model. In analyzing the thematic and structural functions of each art model I have been led to consider their generic function as reflexive tests: all art tropes are related to each other and to the narrative itself through the root metaphor of art.;The art trope as a model of meaning is the subject of Part II. In its three interpretive chapters I attempt a comprehensive reading of three very different novels through the "lens of concept" of a close reading of its art-related texts.;In Dostoevsky's The Devils art tropes prove to be brilliant devices of compression, amplification and variation. They are also foci of thematic tension. Sustained attention to their interrelations yields a consistent reading of this novel.;In Sartre's La nausee art tropes are also an instrument of display and demystification of cultural and psychological codes. Roquentin's diary is an experimental novel in search of its own model.;In La jalousie Robbe-Grillet uses the novel's art models as generateurs. The textual, pictorial and musical models are related to each other through a deliberate system of analogies. The development of these analogies through subtle shifts of association "generates" the entire text of the novel.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Comparative Literature
