Essays about: "Gesamtkunstwerk"

Found 2 essays containing the word Gesamtkunstwerk.

1. 1. Synaesthesia and Visual Music in Swedish Silent Film

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Gustav Ribbing Lygon; [2023]
   Keywords : Silent Film; Synaesthesia; Visual Music; Gesamtkunstwerk; Photogénie; Gesture; Symbolism; Correspondences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how visual music in Swedish silent film served as an allusion to sound, either as a cinematic effect or as an intertwined part of the film narrative. Drawing on the concepts of synaesthesia and visual music, a discussion on how both concepts relate to each other serves as the key method for analyzing a selection of films. READ MORE

3. 2. Experientiality and Sensorial Gesamtkunstwerk in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Niklas Erlandsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Synaesthesia; phenomenology; sensorial aesthetics; American modernism; narratology;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the semiotic experiences in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury from a reader perspective by analyzing in what ways sensorial gesamtkunstwerk is used to convey or evoke sensations that appeal to the reader on a cognitive level. Drawing from Marco Caracciolo’s theories on experientiality which operate under the assumption that an evoked feeling from a text is dependent on the reader’s familiarity with their emotions and senses, this thesis claims that the bridge between narratological (textual) experiences and the reader’s experiences in the novel is made possible through sensorial aesthetics that appeal to our sensory modalities and that operate in a gestalt fashion to form a sensorial gesamtkunstwerk. READ MORE