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Pictures into Words - Images in Contemporary French Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop
culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along
with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of
it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as
such. "Pictures into Words" explores how this proliferation of
graphic images has profoundly affected narrative writing in France,
especially, as Ari J. Blatt argues, the structure, content, and
symbolic logic of contemporary French fiction. By examining a
specific corpus of narratives by authors Claude Simon, Georges
Perec, Pierre Michon, and Tanguy Viel--books that originate amid,
conjure up, and indeed are essentially about pictures--Blatt
addresses the most salient questions pertaining to the relationship
between literature and visual culture today.
Each of the novels considered here engages the work of several
postwar artists, from Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Vincent van
Gogh, and Orson Welles to Jeff Koons, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Pierre
Huyghe, and Marcel Duchamp. As Blatt's cross-disciplinary readings
show, despite their gleeful raiding of the visual archive to
generate and enrich their stories, many contemporary narratives
that tell tales about pictures simultaneously express a cautious
skepticism toward vision and visual representation. "Pictures into
Words" examines how such novels, while seemingly complicit with the
visual, simultaneously "write back" against the images they
exploit, reclaiming some of literature's lost ground in our
visually inundated world.
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