Secondary Multimodality and Tomographic Visibility – The Example of Bronka Nowicka’s Nakarmić Kamień (To Feed a Stone) Cover Image

Multimodalność wtórna i widzialność tomograficzna na przykładzie Nakarmić kamień Bronki Nowickiej
Secondary Multimodality and Tomographic Visibility – The Example of Bronka Nowicka’s Nakarmić Kamień (To Feed a Stone)

Author(s): Maciej Mazur
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: multimodality; Bronka Nowicka; word and image; tomography art; ekphrasis;

Summary/Abstract: The research paper presents the concept of secondarily multimodal work, which problematizes the status of e.g.: visual elements added to further editions of an initially monomodal text in the context of its interpretation. This issue is discussed using the example of Bronka Nowicka’s volume To Feed a Stone (2015; 2017), which was expanded in the second edition with photographs and tomographs of the objects described. The analysis shows that some added graphic elements break up the coherence of the narrative and both reinforce and undermine the mimesis in the work. They function based on the principle of a Derridean supplement: they complement and condition the content of the verbal passages. The article concludes with a study of art volumes that are part of Nowicka’s intermedia project focusing on exploring the relationship between image and memory.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 39
  • Page Range: 77-99
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish
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