The Hermeneutic Spiral and Interpretation in Literature and the Visual Arts

ISBN-13: 9781138503779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 230 str.

Michael O'Toole

Opis

This collection brings together fourteen of the author’s previously published papers on the process of interpretation in literature and the visual arts in one comprehensive volume that highlights the centrality of artistic texts to the study of multimodality. A new introduction lays the foundation for the theoretically based method of analysis running through each of the chapters, one that emphasizes the interplay of textual details and larger thematic purposes to create an open-ended and continuous approach to the interpretation of artistic texts, otherwise known as the "hermeneutic spiral".

Spis treści

Introduction    Part 1: Literary Narrative   Chapter 1: Structure and Style in the Short Story: Chekhov’s The Student   Chapter 2: Narrative structure and living texture: Joyce’s Two Gallants   Chapter 3: Analytic and synthetic approaches to narrative structure: Sherlock Holmes and The Sussex Vampire   Chapter 4: Dimensions of semiotic space: the story of Joseph in the Bible and James Joyce’s Eveline   Part 2: TV Narrative   Chapter 5: Art vs. Computer Animation: Integrity and Technology in South Park   Part 3: Film    Chapter 6: Eisenstein in October   Chapter 7: Eisenstein’s Strike: a structuralist interpretation    Chapter 8: Early Soviet Cinema: The revolution in techniques and human values    Part 4: Painting   Chapter 9: Towards a systemic semiotics of art: Frank Hinder’s The Flight into Egypt   Chapter 10: Captain Banning Cocq’s three left hands: a semiotic interpretation of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch   Chapter 11: Word Pictures and Painted Narrative. Longstaff’s Breaking the News: the systemic-functional model relating the analysis of pictorial discourse, verbal discourse and narrative form   Chapter 12: Pushing out the boundaries: designing a systemic-functional model for non-European visual arts. A Chinese landscape painting: Gong Xian: Landscape Scroll (1682)    Chapter 13: Exploiting famous paintings: the Canon Color Wizz Photocopier and Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror   Chapter 14: The presentation of self in everyday architecture and language: Fawlty Towers

O autorze

Michael O’Toole is Emeritus Professor of Communication Studies at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.