Mavis Gallant

The Eye and the Ear

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

With a confidante’s insights, Marta Dvořák sets up an innovative connection between Mavis Gallant’s dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts. She simultaneously engages with the feats of art making and the adventures of reading, looking, and listening.Drawing on private correspondence and conversations with the Gallant she repositions as a late modernist, Dvořák investigates the relationships between the Paris-based master of the short story and visual and sound culture. Through the filter of philosophical aesthetics, she identifies the painterly, cinematic, and musical dynamics which light up Gallant’s craft. At the same time, she opens a dialogue between Gallant and other international modernists and with those they were reading, watching, and listening to, from the moving pictures which shaped Gallant’s generation to the rhythm and dissonance of, say, Stravinsky and jazz, which − like the Cubist rupture with spatial perspective − spearheaded modernity’s aesthetics of breakage. How does Gallant’s work work? Dvořák’s hands-on rhetorical analyses of Gallant’s stories and lesser-known, recently reissued novels illuminate the superb stylist’s language and vision via an emphasis on both image and rhythm. Providing keys to Gallant’s famous sleights-of-hand and tonal shifts, the discussions reveal a fictional world as multidimensional as a Cubist picture or a symphony − depending on whether we lean towards the eye or the ear.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-19
Mått:160 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487505301

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Marta Dvořák was born in Budapest, raised in Canada, and went on to become professor of Canadian and World Literatures at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she became a close friend of Mavis Gallant.

Recensioner i media

"Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear, a landmark study by Marta Dvořák, presents a compelling case that Gallant’s keen visual and aural senses were profoundly shaped by her immersion in art, film, and music. In what Dvořák calls a modernist assimilation of literary texts, visual culture, and music, Gallant submerged herself in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and the Russians, as well as Pablo Picasso, Ella Fitzgerald, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and the film director Wallace Worsley." - Gregory Shupak (Literary Review of Canada)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments1. Acquisitions: Mapping World and Work an Acrostic for MavisMavis, osmosis, & the Artful Dodgerthe medium calling the tune?why Degas?Mavis, the (moving) pictures, and musicborderblurbeyond our current way of seeing2. Is it Dead or Alive?Gallant’s shining language: wholeness, harmony, and radiance"the rest is just rice pudding": compression & expansion"not mad, not drowning, not Ophelia": a poetics of rhythm3. The Oratorical Triad: "Like Looking Into the Sun"upstairs & downstairs: the banal & the barbarismthe calf & the ox: comical cleavagepoetic speech & the heard wordmetre and the art of sinking — & rising againvisual overlays: page & screenan ellipsoidal narrative rhythm through which ideas rush: where import lies4. Dissonance & Syncopation "silent, flickering areas of light": making strange "tougher than bulldogs": the odd man out"tum titty": adjacency pairsframe-breaking: The Real and the ReelSurfeit and Lack5. Text/Image Borderblur, & Cubist Realism"you paint not what you see but what you know is there"never happier than in an artist’s studio: intersections "taking apart & putting together"a fraught realism6. Who Is I and When Is Here? simultanism vs clocktime the subject-centred perceptual apparatusdouble vision: from short cut to short circuit7. "How Can You Tell What Somebody’s Worth? What’s the Measure?"Works Cited Index