Mystery! Unraveling Edward Gorey's Tangled Web of Visual Metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19429115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Kennedy (0000-0002-1214-0102, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 181-193 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Metaphor and Symbolic Activity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-7253 • E-ISSN: 2379-0288 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327868ms0803_4 |
| OpenAlex | W1993441853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article examines the manipulation of visual metaphor in the cartoons of Edward Gorey. Like verbal metaphor, visual metaphor may be analyzed using I. A. Richards's categories of tenor, vehicle, and ground. Gorey's fictional world is dark, macabre, and strange, yet his style is at once brooding, dangerous, and familiar, old-fashioned in appearance yet modem in theme. He uses Victorian motifs and Gothic settings to examine modern beliefs and fears, capitalizing on the formula of the menace inherent in the familiar. Gorey uses symbols, signs, and icons from the common visual lexicon but changes their contexts to simultaneously emphasize and undermine their sentimentality
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Lexicon · Linguistics · Literature · Macabre · Metaphor · World Wide Web · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |