The power of the image in the work of Lídia Jorge / Nazaré Torrão and José Cândido de Oliveira Martins (eds).
| Other author | Torrão, Nazaré, 1961- |
| Other author | Martins, J. Cândido (José Cândido), 1965- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lausanne ; New York : Peter Lang, [2023] |
| Description | vii, 275 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Series | Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world, 2235-0144 ; Volume no. 18 |
| Contents | Poetics of image / José Cândido de Oliveira Martins and Nazare Torrao -- Theories of the image in Lidia Jorge's fiction / Ana Paula Ferreira -- Lídia Jorge and the images burning in the thickness of time / Maria Graciete Besse -- Lídia Jorge or the poetic object as a sight of the incommensurable image / Sónia Rita Melo -- Chronicle of a genre foretold : the crónica's trajectory in Lídia Jorge's narrative / Isabel Cristina Rodrigues -- For a new ecology of human experience : images of the contemporary in Lídia Jorge's crónicas / José Cândido de Oliveira Martins -- Exposing war crimes : verbal and visual layering in A Costa dos Murmúrios / Olivia Glaze -- The sonic ecology of a falling empire in "O Amor em Lobito Bay" / Patrícia Martinho Ferreira -- A specular game of images : the representation of the world and of artistic creation in O Jardim sem Limites by Lídia Jorge / Alexandra Gonçalves Lopes -- The image of a still moment that escapes : O Jardim sem Limites of Lídia Jorge and the cinema of Tarkovsky / Conceição Brandão -- Media, landscape and identity in O Cais das Merendas / Nazaré Torrão -- Image, body and identity in A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras / Maria Araújo da Silva -- Not ave but adeus, Maria, or re-evaluating the religious in Notícia da Cidade Silvestre / Franklin Nelson -- New constellations / Lídia Jorge -- Two paths to Lídia Jorge / Augusto Santos Silva. |
| Abstract | "As Aristotle has written, the image is at the core of the soul's language. Indeed, given its significant potential and capacity for revelation - heightened in a society dominated by visual culture - the image would seem to be key to reflecting, critically and creatively, on humanity and on history itself. Lídia Jorge has asserted several times that her writing has always taken as its starting point a powerful and inspiring image, which concentrates the various senses and reflections that she intends to explore while also dispersing these throughout the work. Envisioning the initial image, Jorge manages to develop a gaze which is simultaneously critical, thorough and informative. Scholars point out that whenever language opens to universal images and mythologies capable of conveying visions of clarity, the subversive power of beauty is re-asserted, which is confirmed and studied from different points of view and theories in this volume on Lídia Jorge's work. One of them even claims that in discussing Lídia Jorge's fiction, we might talk about a theory or poetics of the image"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023027982 |
| ISBN | 9781800799110 (print) |
| ISBN | (epdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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