Vers une image symptomatique : Don DeLillo et la crise de l'évidence

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...

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Auteur principal: Tréguer, Florian
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Français
Publié: 2001
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spelling cairn-RFEA_089_0098RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2001-3-page-98?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.089.0098 Vers une image symptomatique : Don DeLillo et la crise de l'évidence Tréguer, Florian2001 fre Revue française d’études américaines | 89 | 3 | 2001-06-01 | p. 98-112 | 0397-7870 RFEA_08997 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).Cairn free access
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description 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).
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Vers une image symptomatique : Don DeLillo et la crise de l'évidence
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title Vers une image symptomatique : Don DeLillo et la crise de l'évidence
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title_full Vers une image symptomatique : Don DeLillo et la crise de l'évidence
title_fullStr Vers une image symptomatique : Don DeLillo et la crise de l'évidence
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title_sort vers une image symptomatique : don delillo et la crise de l'évidence
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