Sleeping away the Factory, Healing with Time
Gaston Bachelard, the Poetic Imagination and Testről és lélekről/ On Body and Soul (2017)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3151818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saige Walton (0000-0001-5213-2484, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 348-363 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2020.0345 |
| OpenAlex | W3097745547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Gaston Bachelard distinguishes the radical novelty and newness of the imagination from pre-existing sensory impressions (memory, perception). In this article, I explore Bachelard's connections between time, the imagined image and poetic form, and I consider their implications for the cinema. Concentrating my analysis on Ildikó Enyedi's Testről és lélekről/ On Body and Soul (2017) - a film that alternates between doubled worlds, depictions of human and animal life - I draw out the temporality and the diversity of Bachelard's imagined images. Bringing Bachelard's instant, vertical time and the crystalline to bear on Enyedi's film, I argue that, under the pretext of sleep, rest and dreaming, On Body and Soul engages the temporality and attentiveness of the Bachelardian imagination, together with its poetic effects
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Movie theater · Perception · Poetry · Politics · Pretext · Soul · Temporality · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Media and Philosophy · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |