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== '''The Waste Land: A Cover'''== | == '''The Waste Land: A Cover'''== | ||
| − | + | ''"Our conceptual knowledge of an object in the external visible world...rests on the basis of a store of 'snapshots' of it which we have accumulated in our memory over the passage of time." | |
| + | '' - David Tomlinson in ''Twentieth Century Literature'' | ||
Not unlike music, literature is similarly subjected to variable forms of information visualization. Although the "information" conveyed by the material of a text provides ample possibilities for visualization (just as the imagery or nuance of a song conveys similar probabilities for visualization in the mind of the listener) it is not uncommon for the content of a work to be framed for the purpose of consumption by what is commonly known as a "cover." For example, a simple google image search of the word "Nirvana" does not recover images of the literal texts of the songs produced by the 90's American grunge band, but rather, the top image that surfaces is of the famous cover of Nirvana's album, "Nevermind." Though the band Nirvana is acknowledged historically for the significance of its cultural and musical accomplishments, the most important image associated with the band is that of the naked, swimming infant, grasping for a single dollar bill in an underwater expanse. Thus, throughout the past two decades, the iconographic photograph has served to manifest | Not unlike music, literature is similarly subjected to variable forms of information visualization. Although the "information" conveyed by the material of a text provides ample possibilities for visualization (just as the imagery or nuance of a song conveys similar probabilities for visualization in the mind of the listener) it is not uncommon for the content of a work to be framed for the purpose of consumption by what is commonly known as a "cover." For example, a simple google image search of the word "Nirvana" does not recover images of the literal texts of the songs produced by the 90's American grunge band, but rather, the top image that surfaces is of the famous cover of Nirvana's album, "Nevermind." Though the band Nirvana is acknowledged historically for the significance of its cultural and musical accomplishments, the most important image associated with the band is that of the naked, swimming infant, grasping for a single dollar bill in an underwater expanse. Thus, throughout the past two decades, the iconographic photograph has served to manifest | ||
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Eliot's poem similarly circles round its subject, seeing it from many angles which are then intercut without transitions, the fragments being welded into a new conceptual unity in a complicated system of echoes, contrasts, parallels, and allusions. (64) | Eliot's poem similarly circles round its subject, seeing it from many angles which are then intercut without transitions, the fragments being welded into a new conceptual unity in a complicated system of echoes, contrasts, parallels, and allusions. (64) | ||
| − | "Our conceptual knowledge of an object in the external visible world, for instance, rests on the basis of a store of 'snapshots' of it which we have accumulated in our memory over the passage of time." | + | "Our conceptual knowledge of an object in the external visible world, for instance, rests on the basis of a store of 'snapshots' of it which we have accumulated in our memory over the passage of time." (68) |
"Instead of presenting an illusory perspective, the cubists depict a cognitive map of the object such as accumulates in the memory from a variety of experiences of it." | "Instead of presenting an illusory perspective, the cubists depict a cognitive map of the object such as accumulates in the memory from a variety of experiences of it." | ||
