Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective
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Yunhee Lee
Abstract
Post-classical narratology developed in two directions: contextualism and cognitivism. Contextualist narrative tends to represent the external world by a cultural and historical parameter, while cognitivist narrative represents the internal world of mental phenomena. Contextualist narratologies have a diachronic view, construing narrative as an instrument to contextualize or historicize, whereas cognitivist narratologies regard narrative as embodied in medium specifics. This paper examines the possible dialogical collaboration of the two directions by looking at the intermediality of narrative between poetry and film. From a Peircean perspective, narrative inquiry has two faces, namely, poetic and rhetoric. I elaborate the relation between “narrative imagination” in poetry and “imagistic narrative” in film from a first-person perspective. Examining their dialogical interaction, I show how narrative form as an impregnator for sense-making is transmitted through medium specifics, entering through poetics and coming out through rhetoric. I conclude that intermedial narrative showcases communication media as a condition for identifying selfhood.
Abstract
Post-classical narratology developed in two directions: contextualism and cognitivism. Contextualist narrative tends to represent the external world by a cultural and historical parameter, while cognitivist narrative represents the internal world of mental phenomena. Contextualist narratologies have a diachronic view, construing narrative as an instrument to contextualize or historicize, whereas cognitivist narratologies regard narrative as embodied in medium specifics. This paper examines the possible dialogical collaboration of the two directions by looking at the intermediality of narrative between poetry and film. From a Peircean perspective, narrative inquiry has two faces, namely, poetic and rhetoric. I elaborate the relation between “narrative imagination” in poetry and “imagistic narrative” in film from a first-person perspective. Examining their dialogical interaction, I show how narrative form as an impregnator for sense-making is transmitted through medium specifics, entering through poetics and coming out through rhetoric. I conclude that intermedial narrative showcases communication media as a condition for identifying selfhood.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents XIII
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Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
- Welcome to Semiosistan! 1
- Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism 13
- Risky heuristics 39
- The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry 59
- Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world 75
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Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
- Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning 87
- Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction 111
- Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models 129
- The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics 151
- What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics 169
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Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
- Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective 205
- Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest 227
- Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing 249
- Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis 273
- On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography 299
- Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system 311
- Index 337
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents XIII
-
Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
- Welcome to Semiosistan! 1
- Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism 13
- Risky heuristics 39
- The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry 59
- Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world 75
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Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
- Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning 87
- Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction 111
- Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models 129
- The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics 151
- What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics 169
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Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
- Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective 205
- Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest 227
- Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing 249
- Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis 273
- On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography 299
- Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system 311
- Index 337
