From Text to Hypertext : Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media /

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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 pre-modern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in Fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaggi, Silvio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Künste.
Literaire thema's.
Beeldcultuur.
Subject (filosofie)
Künste
Subjekt > Philosophie
Elektronische Medien
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Arts > Themes, motives.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Arts > Themes, motifs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The subject's eye
  • The tie that binds
  • The keys of power
  • The flattened subject
  • The gendered subject
  • Twinning and cloning the subject
  • 2. The subject of discourse
  • Conrad and the Mise-en-abîme
  • Faulkner's dying "I"
  • Calvino and the traveling subject
  • 3. The moving subject
  • Stunts and other masquerades
  • Coppola's lesson from Las Vegas: One from the heart, The player
  • 4. Hyperrealities and hypertexts
  • The loss of a primary axis
  • Hypertext
  • The author
  • Psychic life redefined
  • Utopia and dystopia
  • Hypertextual narratives
  • Epilogue: after the subject.

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