Vine Deloria, Jr., (with an introduction by James Treat)., For this Land. Writings on Religion in America. New York and London : Routledge, 1999. 311 p. $ 13.99.

Vine Deloria, Jr., (with an introduction by James Treat)., For this Land. Writings on Religion in America. New York and London : Routledge, 1999. 311 p. $ 13.99.

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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Autore principale: Ben Barka, Mokhtar
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spelling cairn-RFEA_089_0116bRFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2001-3-page-116b?lang=fr Vine Deloria, Jr., (with an introduction by James Treat)., For this Land. Writings on Religion in America. New York and London : Routledge, 1999. 311 p. $ 13.99. Ben Barka, Mokhtar2001 fre Revue française d’études américaines | 89 | 3 | 2001-06-01 | p. 116b-127b | 0397-7870 RFEA_089100 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).
author Ben Barka, Mokhtar
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title_short Vine Deloria, Jr., (with an introduction by James Treat)., For this Land. Writings on Religion in America. New York and London : Routledge, 1999. 311 p. $ 13.99.
title_full Vine Deloria, Jr., (with an introduction by James Treat)., For this Land. Writings on Religion in America. New York and London : Routledge, 1999. 311 p. $ 13.99.
title_fullStr Vine Deloria, Jr., (with an introduction by James Treat)., For this Land. Writings on Religion in America. New York and London : Routledge, 1999. 311 p. $ 13.99.
title_full_unstemmed Vine Deloria, Jr., (with an introduction by James Treat)., For this Land. Writings on Religion in America. New York and London : Routledge, 1999. 311 p. $ 13.99.
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