From Text to Hypertext Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1998
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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.
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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 Airman's The Player to emancipate the subject through cinematography and editing.
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