By J. Toikkanen
This e-book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an strange perspective. targeting analyzing particular examples of literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the research brings jointly the phenomenon of horror with the topical innovations of expertise and intermediality and highlights the complicated relatives they current.
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Van den Berg presents four theses which visual scholars must be aware of in order to ‘recommend certain contributions from the discipline of art historiography to burgeoning critical and inter-disciplinary interactions collectively sailing under the flag of “culture studies”’. His four theses, in short, range from the Barthesian observation that ‘image’ as a notion is ‘completely polysemic and utterly ambiguous’ to the recognition of the image as ‘always already ideologically infected’, and modern Western people being ‘at once both practitioners and the victims of ocularcentrism’.
48 The Intermedial Experience of Horror Kant’s hypotyposis This observation brings us back to the rhetorical device of hypotyposis and how it figures in the context. As a tool that provides abstract notions with tangible form, the device taps into the descriptive powers of language, visual and aural, in all verbal communication, philosophy included. 11 This ‘rendering’ further divides into ‘schematic’ and ‘symbolic’ hypotyposes of which, in Kant’s words, the first contains ‘direct’ and the second ‘indirect representations of the concept’.
Yet between trauma and affect theory, there is a vital difference, as well. Whereas both focus on present experience that has to do with the non-representational, either past or future, in affect theory the negative prefix derives from the idea that because present experience is immediate and primordial, some elements remain unmediated. They do, however, exist in their entirety, even if beyond reason and articulation. In trauma theory, contrastingly, the present experience can be just as powerful and indefinable but it does not claim to be speaking for a more complete form of expression – it shows its absence instead.
