Abstract
This paper illuminates the interconnections between the theory of literature and the field of visuality expressed through iconographic figurations, reflecting creative resilience and bio-sustainability in modern times in a global comparative context. It is an analytical paper whose objectives are to interpret ecocritically epistemic constants and variables, as well as expressive modes, with the scope of conceptualizing underscoring poetic devices which present themselves as recurrent patterns and emblems of the symbology of the natural world. The paper innovatively introduces with linguistic means the eco-humanism in the visual domain in a diachronic light, with a particular focus on contemporaneity. It distinguishes therefore between artistic categories of fiction, autofiction and faction both of literary and visual character from a perspective of form and genre studies. Furthermore, this formal kaleidoscope showing an ecological worldview is methodologically articulated through concomitant literary and figurative representations in illustrated or pictorial books and other graphic eco-narratives, or video essays and installation art from the sphere of new media. It includes ways of cultural mediation such as a component of eco-mindfulness in art-critical writings and exhibitions as a part of museal configurations. Besides natural landscapes as a staple art motif and object of eco-themed publicism especially in regard to a surplus literary sense, urban architectural designs as nowadays rhizomatic soundscapes are also detailed, bringing to the fore crucial and unexplored interdisciplinary aspects. Features of such ekphrastic thinking consisting of inventional character and cognitive dimension are outlined with a scientific approach relatable to the natural sciences.
Presenters
Visnja BandaloResearch Associate, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagrebačka županija, Croatia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2023 Special Focus—Literary Landscapes: Forms of Knowledge in the Humanities
KEYWORDS
Environmental Humanities, Symbology, Nature, Literature, Visuality, Narrativization, Architecture, Soundscape, Interdisciplinarity
