Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
European Languages and Societies Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Aesthetics (1)
- African American Studies (1)
- American Literature (1)
- American Studies (1)
- English Language and Literature (1)
-
- Film and Media Studies (1)
- History (1)
- Literature in English, North America (1)
- Other English Language and Literature (1)
- Other Film and Media Studies (1)
- Philosophy (1)
- Philosophy of Language (1)
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (1)
- Rhetoric (1)
- Slavic Languages and Societies (1)
- Social History (1)
- Visual Studies (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in European Languages and Societies
Depicting Absence: Thematic And Stylistic Paradoxes Of Representation In Visual And Literary Imagery, Alexandra Irimia
Depicting Absence: Thematic And Stylistic Paradoxes Of Representation In Visual And Literary Imagery, Alexandra Irimia
Languages and Cultures Publications
The article draws up an inventory of, and compares strategies for, the theoretical and critical treatment of the absence–presence interplay at stake in the literary and visual representations of absence. This brings to our attention a multiplicity of heterogeneous and, to a greater or lesser degree, marginal signify-ing phenomena that have in common patterns of disrupting and deviating from the standard conventions of creating and conveying meaning through figures of absence. Lacking a name for these disparate yet similar instances where meaning is created from empty signifiers, we have chosen to call them figural voids. This attempt to produce a …
Unmasking The Protester: The Meanings And Myths Of Collective Civil Resistance Movements In African American And Polish Postresistance Prose Fiction, Agnieszka Herra
Unmasking The Protester: The Meanings And Myths Of Collective Civil Resistance Movements In African American And Polish Postresistance Prose Fiction, Agnieszka Herra
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
My contention is that the narrative framework of social movements, especially the ones deemed “successful” such as the American Civil Rights Movement and the Polish Solidarity Movement, reflects unity and collectivity within collective memory. During the period of the movements’ duration, this provides a clear rhetorical purpose: to give the appearance of unity in order to give effective voice to the demands. I argue that the voices that did not fit into the collective movements emerge subsequently to question this monologic language in literary form. This dissertation uses Bakhtin’s notion of dialogic language to argue that novels in the postresistance …