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Voicing the Text, Texting the Voice: Transmediation in a Poetry Reading by Louise Glück
Full text linkThis article examines the process of transformation from a written poem by Louise Glück to the poet’s oral reading of it, from a semiotic and intermedial perspective. Glück uses Poet Voice, a widespread reading style characterized by a highly stylized prosodic evenness and predictable use of pitch. Whereas an essential trait of traditional metrical verse is its interplay between the artificial, regular meter and a prosodically more natural reading, non-metrical verse such as Glück’s depends on its visual segmentation into lines, often in conflict with syntax. By using Poet Voice, which conflicts with conventional prosody, these essential characteristics of poetry can be transmediated to the oral reading. While this does suppress expressiveness, it helps produce additional meaning in a way specific to poetry, by means of iconicity. The breakthrough of non-metrical verse around 1900 was accompanied by a visual turn; continental theory further contributed to an increased focus on the written text and to skepticism about a traditional lyrical “I.” The second half of the 20th century, however, saw an oral turn, with the poet emerging as the reader or performer of his or her own texts. In this historical context, this oral reading style balances conflicting tendencies by imitating characteristics of the written text: undecidedness, neutrality, and openness to interpretation
Towards a Chronotopical Analysis of Urban Squares
Full text linkThis research aims to develop semiotic tools for analysing emergent and recently (re)designed urban everyday spaces, an emergent, changing and internally heterogeneous sociocultural phenomenon. Interlinking environmental semiosis of material space, interpretations by users in (inter)actions and textualisation in culture, the framework of chronotopical analysis is proposed and explored, together with broadening it from literary studies to the domain of urban space. Its application is exemplified in the material of recently (re)designed town squares in Estonia, an outcome of a nationwide program to revitalise small towns and develop the appreciation of public space in Estonian culture. The study outlines the framework of chronotopical analysis and demonstrates its potential for the integrative semiotic analysis of the multi-layered and dynamic character of recently designed urban spaces
Israeli Demonstration Posters: Spatial Semiotics of Silence
Full text linkIsrael’s coalition effort (2023) to introduce a “(judicial) reform” was perceived by many Israelis as endangering Israel’s standing as a democratic state. The salience of silence as a theme and a form in the posters exhibited in the demonstrations supporting and opposing the coalition’s move triggered the examination of the semiotic roles played by silence in those posters and whether this use of silence differed by reform support/opposition. Two-hundred and twenty posters partaking in the demonstrations’ linguistic landscape were examined. Implementing an algorithm based on Ephratt’s (2022) model for identifying different types of silences revealed that fifty six of the posters alluded to one of the six categories of silence (stillness, symptomatic silences, silencing, pauses, the unsaid or verbal silence). These posters served as the data for a qualitative-thematic methodology, iteratively abstracting semiotic roles. Silences and silencing reoccurred as a theme concerning political discourse, particularly the matter of voice. The need for parsimonious use of crucial signantia on posters transformed into a semiotic strategy in which leaving out expected signantia served iconically to communicate absence, conatively activate the observers or express consent, metalinguistically convey the shortage of words, legally circumvent possible charges and create a hiatus that provides soothing qualities, enhancing in-group and out-group tolerance. The differing use of silence in the posters, depending on reform support/opposition, is explained in terms of horror vacui and motivation. Finally, the individual posters, as material texts, did not appear nor function in isolation: they took an active part in producing the demonstrations’ spatial semiotics
Triukšmo siena: garso ir erdvės transformacija
Full text linkThis article describes the authentic experience of a harsh noise wall, revealing the changing relationship between space and sound. The article focuses on the listener’s experience while listening to this subgenre of music live. To identify the elements that contribute to the creation of meaning, the analysis includes paramusical factors that are semiotically related, though not structurally specific to a particular musical discourse. To investigate this issue Philip Tagg’s semiotic method of music analysis is used. It is based on video recordings of performances by noise artists The Rita (USA), Merzbow (JPN) and Vomir (FR), with accompanying listener reviews. The study examines how listening mode, listening location, listener activity and cultural location alter the listener’s experience. Harsh noise wall, which first appears to be a homogeneous genre, becomes a heterogeneous object of musical and sensory experience. This article develops the idea that not only can the performance space affect the sound and the listener’s experience, but there is also the potential for this relationship to be reversed, as sound transforms the space and changes the visual notion of it.Straipsnyje siekiama aprašyti autentišką triukšmo sienos patirtį, atskleidžiant kintantį santykį tarp erdvės ir garso. Aktualizuojamas klausytojo patyrimas, klausantis šio požanrio muzikos gyvai. Siekiant įvardyti, kokie elementai prisideda prie reikšmės kūrimosi, į analizę įtraukiami paramuzikiniai veiksniai, kurie semiotiškai yra susiję su konkrečiu muzikos diskursu, tačiau struktūriškai nėra jam būdingi. Šiai problematikai tirti pasitelkiamas Philipo Taggo semiotinis muzikos analizės metodas. Naudojami triukšmo menininkų The Rita (JAV), Merzbow (Japonija) ir Vomir (Prancūzija) pasirodymų vaizdo įrašų bei juos papildančių klausytojų recenzijų pavyzdžiai. Nagrinėjama, kaip klausančiojo subjekto patyrimą keičia tokie veiksniai kaip klausymosi režimas, klausymosi vieta, klausytojo veikla ir kultūrinė lokacija. Triukšmo siena, iš pirmo žvilgsnio atrodanti kaip vienalytis požanris, atsiskleidžia esanti labai įvairiapusiškas muzikos ir juslinės patirties objektas. Plėtojama mintis, kad ne tik pasirodymo erdvė gali veikti garsą ir klausytojo patirtį, tačiau taip pat esama potencialo šiam santykiui apsiversti, garsui transformuojant erdvę ir pakeičiant vizualinę jos sampratą
Miestas kitaip: erdvė Giedros Radvilavičiūtės esė „Racionalūs sprendimai“
Full text link The article deals with the writing/production of space in Giedra Radvilavičiūtė’s essay “Rational Decisions”. In contemporary (literary) geography, the writing of space presupposes that space is perceived not as an empty container/stage where the action takes place, but as the space of relationships and networks of human and non-human characters which create the relational space or space as a place-event. The understanding of relational space comes from human geography, which also proposes a new ontology of the city, as outlined in Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2002) by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift. According to these authors, what continously happens in a city is life, made up of countless human and non-human activities, communication, networks and communities. One form of community, they argue, is everyday life itself, in which unpredictable human connections and their effects are realised. The paper argues that, in “Rational Decisions”, the narration creates a new mode of Lithuanian urban literature, in which urban space is written / produced as a place-as-event of everyday life. The concept of ‘domestic disorder’ used in this essay could be one of the concepts sought by the new urban theory to bring research closer to the reality of the contemporary city.Straipsnyje, pasitelkiant šiuolaikinės (literatūros) geografijos konceptus, analizuojamas erdvės rašymas Giedros Radvilavičiūtės esė „Racionalūs sprendimai“. Erdvės rašymas suponuoja požiūrį į erdvę literatūros kūrinyje, kai erdvė suvokiama ne kaip tuščia talpa / scena, kurioje vyksta veiksmas, bet kaip (ne)žmogiškų veikėjų santykiai, ryšiai ir tinklai, iš kurių erdvė susikuria kaip vieta-įvykis. Toks erdvės suvokimas ateina iš humanitarinės geografijos, pasiūlančios naują miesto ontologiją, išdėstytą Asho Amino ir Nigelio Thrifto knygoje Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2002). Anot šių autorių, tai, kas nuolat vyksta mieste, yra gyvenimas, susikuriantis iš žmonių, gyvūnų bei daiktų tinklų ir bendruomenių. Viena iš bendruomenių formų, jų nuomone, yra pati kasdienybė. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad „Racionalių sprendimų“ pasakojimas sukuria naują miesto lietuvių literatūroje variantą, kai miesto erdvė yra ne reprezentuojama / atvaizduojama, bet parašoma kaip kasdienybės gyvenimo vyksmo vieta, o šioje esė vartojama „buitinių nesklandumų“ sąvoka galėtų būti vienas iš naujosios urbanizmo teorijos ieškomų konceptų, priartinančių tyrimus prie šiuolaikinio miesto realybės
