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Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning (Cultural Memory in the Present Series)  
Author: Peter Schwenger
ISBN: 0804733430
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning (Cultural Memory in the Present Series)

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Mental image, dream, fantasy, hallucination - all these are encompassed by the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasm. Perhaps only such a multifarious concept is adequate to the range of visual elements involved in the experience of reading fiction, or of writing it. This book analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works - such as Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew, and Rimbaud's "The Vowels" - that treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Drawing on artists' books, marginal drawings by authors, and films such as Prospero's Books, Fantasm and Fiction illuminates the process of textual visualization. The author develops, in addition, "A Politics of Visualization" through analyses of the photographs of David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman's film Blue, and Nicole Brossard's novel Picture Theory.

FROM THE CRITICS

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Schwenger (English, Mount St. Vincent U., Halifax, Nova Scotia) analyzes the relationships between the material text and the fantasmal experience of reading fiction, showing how some work of Calvino, Coleridge, Sorrentino, Rimbaud, and others treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Acknowledging that the specific images of readers cannot be predicted, he explains how to speculate on the modes of the images: focused or fogged, schematic or emotive, fleeting or enduring. He also relates the experience to various visual artists. Paper edition (unseen) $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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