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Personification, animism, cartoon-imagery? Postscript
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Jansy Mello adds this postscript after seeing Alexey's latest posting:
Alexey Sklyarenko has just posted this sentence from ADA (1.39): He [Van]
remembered with a pang of pleasure the indulgent skirt Ada had been wearing
then, so
swoony-baloony as the Chose young things said...
Here we find a skirt that is "indulgent," (and "swoony"), but the skirt's
licentiousness is of a different order from those of "reluctant armchairs"
or "doubtful roads", although I cannot pinpoint what I see as
representative of a different approach to 'personification" Just like in
the personifications, its quality resides in a shareable projection of
human emotions onto the world but a critical distance blocks the reader's
response and seems to stimulate him onto a more intellectual appreciation
of the proposed image.
Suggestions?
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Alexey Sklyarenko has just posted this sentence from ADA (1.39): He [Van]
remembered with a pang of pleasure the indulgent skirt Ada had been wearing
then, so
swoony-baloony as the Chose young things said...
Here we find a skirt that is "indulgent," (and "swoony"), but the skirt's
licentiousness is of a different order from those of "reluctant armchairs"
or "doubtful roads", although I cannot pinpoint what I see as
representative of a different approach to 'personification" Just like in
the personifications, its quality resides in a shareable projection of
human emotions onto the world but a critical distance blocks the reader's
response and seems to stimulate him onto a more intellectual appreciation
of the proposed image.
Suggestions?
--
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
susanelizabethsweeney.wordpress.com
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