The Painting on the Wall: The Language of Visual Arts in Selected Modernist and Post-Modernist Fiction
Dissertation
Danial Saleh Nourani
Persian Literature and Foreign Languages
1400
69p.
cd
M.A.
English Literature
1400/06/29
It is to acknowledge that a life without art would be a gaunt, tasteless metaphor of living. The following thesis with regards to the defined ontology of artistic representations, studies the single but complex aesthetics of art in relation to a matrix of variants that proceed from an expressive ambiguity in the two selected texts, namely Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Carole Maso’s The Art Lover. For that reason, through stripping the naked art forms of their original influence, the argument in this thesis opts for a revisionist study of disparate but meaningful contiguities of art in the lives of specific characters. The two chapters work their way in pursuit of a semantic core to disclose an expanding motivation as a controlling structure. The first chapter employs as its focalization the painting in process by Lily Briscoe and, with a glance at a Bloomian Anxiety of Influence that highlights her feminine sense of anxiety, studies the latent interactive variants in the making of her anxiety. The second chapter takes its main idea from Gaston Bachelard’s seminal book The Poetics of Space and aims to explore the multiple art forms and spaces as expressive locales of nostalgia thus speculating that the ordinary aesthetics of life are no more ordinary when it comes to being affected by past habit spaces. The research concludes that the two works, fragmented in style, move beyond the mimetic refrentiality of language to reveal a fundamental gap which, in Michael Riffatree’s structuralist theories, reflects an invariant core from which other signs spread in a syndrome-wise progression
نقاشی ای بر دیوار: زبان هنر های تجسمی در آثار منتخب ادبیات مدرنیستی و پسامدرنیستی
To the Lighthouse, Space, The Art Lover, Aesthetics, Riffaterre, Phenomenology
نقاشی ای بر دیوار: زبان هنر های تجسمی در آثار منتخب ادبیات مدرنیستی و پسامدرنیستی