From Text to Hypertext : Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media / Silvio Gaggi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaggi, Silvio, Author.

Series:

Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.

Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Themes, motives.

Arts.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From Text to Hypertext, analyzing the issue of subject construction and deconstruction in selected examples of visual art, literature, film, and electronic media. Gaggi concentrates on a few paradigmatic works in each chapter; he contrasts van Eyck's Wedding of Arnolfini with the photography of Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger; examines fiction that centers on an elusive subject in works by Conrad, Faulkner, and Calvino; and explores the ability of such films as Coppola's One from the Heart and Altman's The Player to emancipate the subject through cinematography and editing.In considering electronic media, Gaggi takes his argument to an entirely new level. He focuses on computer-controlled media, specifically examples of hypertextual fiction by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop. Besides recognizing how the computer has enabled artists to create works of fiction in which readers themselves become decentered, Gaggi also observes the impact of literature created on computer networks, where even the limitations of CD-ROM are lifted and the notion of individual authorship may for all practical purposes be lost.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Subject's Eye

Chapter 2. The Subject of Discourse

Chapter 3. The Moving Subject

Chapter 4. Hyperrealities and Hypertexts

Epilogue: After the Subject

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781512802283

151280228X

OCLC:

932313416