Naslov
Image Inc: popular visuality and the postmodern american novel

Autori
Cvek, Sven

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, magistarski rad

Fakultet
Filozofski fakultet

Mjesto
Zagreb

Datum
28.06

Godina
2005

Stranica
150

Mentor
Knežević, Borislav

Neposredni voditelj
Švrljuga, Željka

Ključne riječi
novel; postmodernism; visuality; popular culture; power; capitalism; subjectivity

Sažetak
The text treats the complex relations between popular visuality and the postmodern American novel. 'Popular visuality' is a shorthand term for 'visual forms of popular culture, ' the cultural sphere constituted by visual technologies, primarily television and film (not excluding photography and other contemporary visual media). The basic assumption of the thesis is the domination of the visual mode of representation in American culture. This text analyzes the entanglement of visuality in the narrative structures of three postmodern novels: Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Douglas Coupland's Generation X. These texts incorporate visuality in an attempt to criticize the contemporary configuration of power in the US society. Apart from representing visuality as the central aspect of American culture, these novels register its fundamental impact on the process of formation of contemporary subjectivity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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