The purpose of the present paper is to explore Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s novel Ragtime(1975)as a masterful adaptation of musical form in fiction.It demonstrates the ways in which the use of musical devices of Ragtime...The purpose of the present paper is to explore Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s novel Ragtime(1975)as a masterful adaptation of musical form in fiction.It demonstrates the ways in which the use of musical devices of Ragtime shapes the rhythmic/narrative structure of the novel.The article offers the reading of the novel as a musicalized fiction,or,in other words,as a form of musico-literary intermediality.It focuses on the chief characteristics of Doctorow’s novel such as a plurality of independent consciousnesses and a diversity of simultaneous points of view/voices.The novel by its very design is polyphonic.Manipulating polyrhythmic effects,mixed rhythms,repetitive phrases and leitmotifs,Doctorow is experimenting with the rhythm both on micro and macro textual levels.展开更多
The spring in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s“The Canterbury Pilgrims”is a very profound symbol.The spring contains the ambiguous meanings of religion,sex and life experience.Through close reading the spring will be analyzed...The spring in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s“The Canterbury Pilgrims”is a very profound symbol.The spring contains the ambiguous meanings of religion,sex and life experience.Through close reading the spring will be analyzed from the perspective of culture,mythology and history to show the plurality,ambiguity and profundity of the image.展开更多
GIFs,short audio-free loops of moving sequences,are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor,mediate power and signal identity.This paper proposes the perspectiv...GIFs,short audio-free loops of moving sequences,are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor,mediate power and signal identity.This paper proposes the perspective of visual nominalization and visual telicity as GIF properties that,in the environment of social media technologies,become capable of expressing polyphonic evaluation,transcontexualized polysemy,and dual deixis.Visual nominalization expresses the freeing of movement from integration into a time-dependent narrative and the abstraction resulting in deemphasized participants and emphasized processes.These traits are activated and realized by visual telicity,which is looping move-ment that can be conceptualized as an atelic visual container which packages and expresses both telic and atelic processes.This paper argues that visual nomina-lization and visual telicity are what establishes GIFs'semiotic differences from still images and flm videos,and facilitates their integration with written language in online and computer-mediated discourse.展开更多
文摘The purpose of the present paper is to explore Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s novel Ragtime(1975)as a masterful adaptation of musical form in fiction.It demonstrates the ways in which the use of musical devices of Ragtime shapes the rhythmic/narrative structure of the novel.The article offers the reading of the novel as a musicalized fiction,or,in other words,as a form of musico-literary intermediality.It focuses on the chief characteristics of Doctorow’s novel such as a plurality of independent consciousnesses and a diversity of simultaneous points of view/voices.The novel by its very design is polyphonic.Manipulating polyrhythmic effects,mixed rhythms,repetitive phrases and leitmotifs,Doctorow is experimenting with the rhythm both on micro and macro textual levels.
文摘The spring in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s“The Canterbury Pilgrims”is a very profound symbol.The spring contains the ambiguous meanings of religion,sex and life experience.Through close reading the spring will be analyzed from the perspective of culture,mythology and history to show the plurality,ambiguity and profundity of the image.
文摘GIFs,short audio-free loops of moving sequences,are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor,mediate power and signal identity.This paper proposes the perspective of visual nominalization and visual telicity as GIF properties that,in the environment of social media technologies,become capable of expressing polyphonic evaluation,transcontexualized polysemy,and dual deixis.Visual nominalization expresses the freeing of movement from integration into a time-dependent narrative and the abstraction resulting in deemphasized participants and emphasized processes.These traits are activated and realized by visual telicity,which is looping move-ment that can be conceptualized as an atelic visual container which packages and expresses both telic and atelic processes.This paper argues that visual nomina-lization and visual telicity are what establishes GIFs'semiotic differences from still images and flm videos,and facilitates their integration with written language in online and computer-mediated discourse.
