Taking My Time: Anxiety of Narrative and Temporality in Steve Tomasula’s TOC and VAS
| Document type: | Conference Presentations |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Maria Engberg |
| Title: | Taking My Time: Anxiety of Narrative and Temporality in Steve Tomasula’s TOC and VAS |
| Conference name: | Narrative |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Planning and Media Design (Sektionen för planering och mediedesign) School of Planning and Media Design S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/dsn/ |
| Authors e-mail: | maria.engberg@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Authors such as Steve Tomasula simultaneously respond to a long tradition of word-and-image combinations in literature and engage with radically new possibilities for re-imagining the function of the visual in written and oral texts. Tomasula’s TOC and VAS condition readers to a “polyaesthetics,” a multifaceted reading of multimodal texts that demands new theorization of the reader’s sense of proprioception (true or imagined) and spatio-temporality as navigational device propelling experience. The paper defines “polyaesthetics” in relation to Tomasula’s two narratives and its implications for the larger field of digital literatures. |
| Subject: | The Humanities\English |
| Keywords: | digital literature, digital media, experimental literature, interfaces |
