Vers une image symptomatique
Don DeLillo et la crise de l'évidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6167947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Florian Tréguer (Arènes: politique, santé publique, environnement, médias, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 98-98 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue française d’études américaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0397-7870 • E-ISSN: 1776-3061 |
| Publisher | Éditions Belin (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.3917/rfea.089.0098 |
| OpenAlex | W1915788163 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Among the various concepts of image in DeLillo’s fiction, this study investigates what it problematically defines as the evident image (in its industrial forms: photography, television, video). Its symptomatic qualities (impact, denotation, expressiveness) make it a sharp instrument for questioning the characters’ dealings with signs and confronting them with their fascination for truer than life representations. On account of its essential elusiveness, it is also limitative: it upsets perceptual habits and destabilizes language insofar as it becomes incapable of grasping experience. To go beyond this stage of critical recognition, the character/viewer regularly attempts to deconstruct the image, isolate its element of obviousness, through compulsive manipulations (of which repeating, freezing and enlarging are three exemplary forms
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Denotation (semiotics · Element (criminal law · Epistemology · Image (mathematics · Literature · Perception · Photography · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Mathematics · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |