This is Chapter Two of my PhD dissertation (thus the third on-line following the Prelude and Chapter One which I already posted). This is the key chapter, as it fully elucidates my theory.
The Chapters are permanently archived on my website here, but I am a post of notification up on Sharkforum as I finish them and they are critiqued and approved. (I am writing under the direction of Prof. Philip Urspung at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My second reader is Prof. Andreas Langlotz at the University of Basel, Switzerland.). This is also to offer a location where any reader who w ants to can post comments, most of which will go into my final dissertation project in some fashion. I would love your comments, criticism, tangential thoughts and more!
Link to chapter here (in pdf).
Please be aware that by commenting here, you are giving me permission to use your words, with proper citation including your name, in some fashion in my final book and exhibition.
All elements are (c) and TM 2010 by Mark Staff Brandl.
Hi Mark, I try to submit this on Sharkforum, but it didn't get through. You're nearly a free man, as soon as your Ph.D. is completed! Looks very interesting. Suzanne
Congratulations on having completed your chapter! A few comments - I think it would be very useful to provide a definition of what is understood philosophically by the concept of “analogy” and elaborate a bit more on what the relationship of an analogy is to your use of metaphor/trope in the context of a work of art. For the Surrealists, analogies were used a poetic device – does this apply to your cartoons? How does your theory have relevance to the idea of the game of trompe l’oeil in art?
Little typo: p. 43. end of 1#: pictura instead of picture
Thanks Susan!
SF seems to be an ocassional problem with comments --- Movable Type system is funky. I've asked our whiz Sarah to look into it!
Yes, wouldn't be a bad idea to get into analogy, but I think that would be a whole diss in and of itself. I think I will seriously address it in an article AFTER the diss! I'm using the cognitive metaphor approach as my basis, and they have discussed analogy already, to some extent. I could add something to the section on other terminology, but as I said, it is rich enough to do on its own later. In short, analogy is any comparison seeking similarity between any two things, whereas I am thinking of a much more specific seeing one thing in terms of another. So the kind of analogy you are thinking of is a one work, or few works, affair --. where I'm looking for a kind of key metaphor (like God is love, the brushstroke is a flame, etc.). It all is definitely analogical thinking, though, you are right --- I'm sticking here though to the embodied aspect.
One terminology point --- my stuff at the end of each chapter and in the next chapter in its entirety, is "comics," not cartoons --- a diferentiation that is important. And most of my work is comic art influenced, but not actually comics at all (such as the Chapter-heading paintings). But I'm getting ther,
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