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Johnson, Rose Marie.

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Cultural constructs: Building a visual rhetoric for understanding literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cultural constructs: Building a visual rhetoric for understanding literature./
Author:	Johnson, Rose Marie.
Description:	183 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: A, page: 2009.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-06A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9836585
ISBN:	0591901692

Cultural constructs: Building a visual rhetoric for understanding literature.
Johnson, Rose Marie.

Cultural constructs: Building a visual rhetoric for understanding literature. - 183 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: A, page: 2009.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Arlington, 1998.

In The Pursuit of Signs in 1981, Jonathan Culler calls for a literary criticism that goes beyond the interpretive task of New Criticism, which "is only tangentially related to the understanding of (individual works of) literature" (5). While it may be studied and interpreted in New Critical autonomy from its author and while it may be seen anew through Culler's synthesis of semiotics and deconstruction, an individual literary work cannot be understood in autonomy from its culture. In response to Culler's call, this study turns to visual semiotics in an attempt to build a rhetoric that will yield understanding of systems of visual and verbal signification as practiced in individual artistic and literary works through the building of culturally constructed schema.

ISBN: 0591901692Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Cultural constructs: Building a visual rhetoric for understanding literature.
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520 $a This study views both art works and literary works as cultural productions and posits that art and literature from the same culture share the same underlying constructs. Using selected visual semiotic methods, this study explores the cultural relationships between visual and verbal artifacts from fifth-century B.C. Athens and between visual and verbal artifacts from nineteenth-century America. Applying the visual semiotic method of framing to three fifth-century Athenian vase-paintings reveals metaphors of containment in Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides and in the two tragedies entitled Electra by Euripides and Sophocles because their common culture assumed that women should be contained. The visual significance of architectural line and space in the polis and oikos of fifth-century Athens reveals Euripides' plot of containment in Iphigenia in Aulis, and the vertical axis of the typical Victorian house in nineteenth-century America exposes the irony of plot structure in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour." Again, the works reflect their cultures' assumptions about the place and role of women. Nineteenth-century Impressionist treatment of color, light, and image illuminates sensory images and rhetorical devices in "The Story of an Hour," revealing women's resistance to the dominant male ideology of their era.
520 $a This visual semiotic approach has both critical and pedagogical applications. Examining cultural constructs in such a manner constitutes a criticism of understanding and of cultural illumination.
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