目录 Preface i Acknowledgements iii List of Abbreviations v Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two Novel and Film 23 Chapter Three Cinematic Visualization: Writing with a Camera Eye 57 I. Frequent Cross-references to the Cinema 58 II. Parallels of Different Camera Shots 70 III. The Significance of Different Shots 95
IV. The Significance of the Combination of Different Shots 103 Chapter Four Montage: Fragmentation and Discontinuity 111 I. Quick Sequences of Brief Images 113 II. Metaphorical Montages 120 III. Parallel Montages and Jump Cuts 130
IV. Flashback Montages 139 V Conclusion 145 Chapter Five Phillips’s Cinematic Use of Light, Color and Sound 147 I. Light 147 II. Color 176 III. Sound 195 Chapter Six Cinematic Imagination 225 Bibliography 235
精彩内容 Caribbean born writer Caryl Phillips is one of the foremost contemporary British novelists, having published ten novels over the past thirty years, an oeuvre that shows him continuously seeking to challenge readers’ expectations and offer fresh perspectives in each new work. Throughout this body of work, he has been steadfastly exploring so and cultural dimensions of racism, postcolonial migration, and diasporic identity, always placing his subject in view of carefully researched and dramatically evoked historical context and with close attention to the circumstances and experiences of individuals. Such an approach and interest call for experimentation, combining a humanistic concern and a postmodern sense of the constructedness of history and identity. Critics of Phillips’s work thus agree on the fact that he is a careful stylist and that narrative form and figurative technique are key concerns that distinguish his art. Yet few scholars have made the effort to pay close attention to his writing and examine his prose style in detail with a view to elucidating how it achieves its effects. Dr. Su’s book, Word into Image: Cinematic Elements in Caryl Phillips’s Fiction, addresses this absence in the critical scholarship and sets out to open the field by investigating Phillips’s style from a particularly salient perspective: focusing on his use and adaptation of features and techniques that explore the creative affinity between fiction and film. Dr. Su’s book offers a detailed examination of cinematic influences as well as film-like technical innovations that characterize Phillips’s style. This choice of critical focus expresses a recognition of the importance of Phillips’s interest and achievement in forms or writing other than the novel, notably his body of work for the stage and for radio and television, which has received comparatively little critical attention. Recognizing the formative importance of this aspect of Phillips’s craft, Dr. Su proceeds systematically to analyze and explore cinematic elements and their formal function and thematic significance across four novels spanning Phillips’s career. The study is set within a well-established theoretical framework, mapping the rich interplay between cinematic and novelistic representation since the 19th century, and develops three major analytical trajectories. The first uses the cinematic terminology of different camera shots to disclose a grammar of visualization that organizes the narrative structure of Phillips’s novels. The second examines the analogy between cinematic techniques of montage and Phillips’s characteristic use of fragmentation and discontinuity. And the third trajectory traces figurative patterns, metaphorical and metonymic, in Phillips’s use of light, color and sound. Throughout her book, Dr. Su demonstrates not only a thorough familiarity with Phillips’s work and the critical scholarship that surrounds it, but more importantly also offers an original contribution to this scholarship by identifying and analyzing neglected aspects of his fictional style. Her study reads Phillips’s work in the context of carefully researched debates about the relations between cinema and fiction and yields new insights into Phillips’s art and its relations to both modernist and postmodern currents in contemporary fiction. Otto Heim, PhD Associate Professor of English The University of Hong Kong
Acknowledgements I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Dr Otto Heim, my supervisor, for his professional guidance, useful suggestions and total confidence in me. His help and support has helped me to get through those difficult times caused by some personal problems. Without his patience and encouragement, this book would not have been completed. Words can’t express how grateful I am to him. I also wish to express my deep gratitude to Prof Bénédicte Ledent for sending me many useful materials concerning my research and giving me the chance to study with her during a research stay at the University of Liège. She taught me to be more confident in developing my own critical thoughts and has never hesitated to offer help whenever I needed. Her classes and the Advanced Seminar on Caryl Phillips I attended during the visiting study have been a great source of inspiration for me. My thanks go also to my former supervisor Prof Bill Ashcroft for giving me a clear direction in the early stages of my study and supporting me morally throughout the research. Spe thanks to the staff of the general office in the School of English for their kindness and support. Most importantly, I am grateful to my parents Mr Su Jieliang and Ms Huang Jianhua, to my husband Mr Gong Chun, and to my son Gong Fanyun, who have provided me with love, care and understanding.
List of Abbreviations The following abbreviations for Phillips’s novels are used throughout. Bibliographical details are given in the Bibliography. DD Dancing in the Dark FP The Final Passage FS In the Falling Snow NB The Nature of Blood
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