Learning to Look

A Visual Response to Mavis Gallant's Fiction

Автор: Lesley Clement

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In "Learning to Look", Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative sty...

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Автор

Lesley Clement

Език

Английски език

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Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2000

страници

304

EAN

9780773520417

Enbook ID

04917793

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McGill-Queen's University Press

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603

Размери

168 x 237 x 27

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In "Learning to Look", Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. From her earliest explorations of the disparity between perception and reality, through her later explorations of the interaction of memory and history, to her more recent examination of the role of culture in a contemporary world where commercialism and madness threaten to extinguish the potential for illumination and enlightenment, Gallant envisages and renders her fictional world with the techniques analogous to those of visual artists. Clement shows us that Gallant's fiction of the 1940s and 1950s exhibits a keen interest in perspective and proportion achieved through concentration on line, that her fiction of the 1960s and early 1970s reveals a heightened interest in composition achieved through a focus on framing, proportion, and form or shape, and that her fiction after the mid 1970s demonstrates the full realisation of her art through attention to colour and light. Gallant increasingly explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and structures give her fiction the perspective, proportion, density, and fluidity that illuminate the printed page and challenge us as readers. Alert to visual cues in Gallant's fiction we acquire a heightened perception of the manifold richness of worlds and lives that might otherwise have been relegated to the unseen and unsung. Lesley D. Clement is an instructor of English in the Division of Arts at Medicine Hat College, Alberta.

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