Abstract
What is the relation between ‘seeing’ and ‘reading’, especially where literary texts are concerned? This essay explores the question by recalling the author's experience with radio plays in the 1950s, where the imaginative intensity was in direct proportion to the absence of visual images. Proceeding then to a discussion of Poe's Fall of the House of Usher and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the narration of images is related to the scenic and theatrical dynamics of ‘gesture’ in a way that includes the movement of reading itself.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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