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1 Online-Ressource (298 Seiten, 4007 KB)
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The dissertation proposes that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus texts. In analyzing the nexus between ‘real’ and ‘reel’, the dissertation shows how the texts address the reader as media consumer and virtual image projector. Furthermore, the study discusses the Indian English novel against the backdrop of the cultural and medial transformations of the 20th century to elaborate how these influenced the novel’s aesthetics. Drawing upon reception aesthetics, the author devises the concept of the ‘implied spectator’ to analyze the aesthetic impact of the novels’ images as visual textures. No God in Sight (2005) by Altaf Tyrewala comprises of a string of 41 interior monologues, loosely connected through their narrators’ random encounters in Mumbai in the year 2000.…
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2015
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reimer, Anna Maria The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel Potsdam, 2015
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95660
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95660
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1218400919/34
Author information:
Wiemann, Dirk 1964-
Author information:
Eckstein, Lars 1975-
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