5 The visual text
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Brian Baker
Abstract
This chapter discusses the intense visual imagery that has become characteristic of Sinclair's poetry. It considers the visual apparatus of Sinclair's major works, including Slow Chocolate Autopsy. It also studies the importance of the cinematic and visual, the diagrammatic mapping of fictional texts, Sinclair's geometric conception of urban space, and the visual components of Sinclair's texts. This chapter also identifies the strategies Sinclair uses to improve the effects of the ‘semantic drag’, which is a retardation of the narrative and syntactic flow caused by the intensity of the individual sentence.
Abstract
This chapter discusses the intense visual imagery that has become characteristic of Sinclair's poetry. It considers the visual apparatus of Sinclair's major works, including Slow Chocolate Autopsy. It also studies the importance of the cinematic and visual, the diagrammatic mapping of fictional texts, Sinclair's geometric conception of urban space, and the visual components of Sinclair's texts. This chapter also identifies the strategies Sinclair uses to improve the effects of the ‘semantic drag’, which is a retardation of the narrative and syntactic flow caused by the intensity of the individual sentence.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Series editor’s foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 Space and time, myth and place 33
- 2 Whitechapel autopsy 60
- 3 The widow; or, the critical baroque 80
- 4 Internal exiles 103
- 5 The visual text 117
- 6 Driven to the margins 138
- 7 Borderlands 161
- References 180
- Index 189
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Series editor’s foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 Space and time, myth and place 33
- 2 Whitechapel autopsy 60
- 3 The widow; or, the critical baroque 80
- 4 Internal exiles 103
- 5 The visual text 117
- 6 Driven to the margins 138
- 7 Borderlands 161
- References 180
- Index 189
