Abstract
This article aims to elaborate the Little Expressionless Animals, the story written by David Foster Wallace, to present a criticism regarding how heavy television watching serves to distract individuals from the real world and creates blankness in their inner world and makes them ‘expressionless animals’. The author attempts to illustrate that the frequent exposure to the television programs and its distorted images cause the false perception of reality, the personalization of visual images and the loss of the self in an artificial world. The confusion of existential reality and visual, arbitrary environment lead to failure to distinguish the image ‘signifier’ and the real thing ‘signified’. The individuals living in a delusional world created by the television confuse signifier (TV images) with signified (real life occurring, events or objects). The author uses faces as metaphors with concave – convex expression and was inspired by John Ashbery’s poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,”, based on the portrait painted by Parmigianino. Wallace, as well as Ashbery demonstrates irony and paradox reflecting inner and outer of self.
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- Annesley, James, “Review Essay David Foster Wallace”, Journal of American Studies, 43,1, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2009, 131–134 Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, January 20, 2003, retrieved July 05 2013. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/self-portrait-in-aconvex-mirror/ Bellow, Saul. "Some Notes on Recent American Fiction", Encounter, 5, 1963, 22-29. Harris, Charles B., “David Foster Wallace: That Distinctive Singular Stamp Of Himself”, Critique, Taylor & Francis Group, 51, 2010,168–176. Holland, Mary K., “The Art’s Heart’s Purpose: Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest”, Critique, Heldref Publications, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2006, 218-242.
- McCaffery, Larry, “An Interview with David Foster Wallace”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 13.2, 1993, 127-50. Phillips, Brian, “The Negative Style of David Foster Wallace”, The Hudson Review, 2005, 675-682. Saussure, Ferdinand de, Course in General Linguistics, London: Duckworth, 1983. Stamelman, Richard. “Critical Reflections: Poetry and Art Criticism in Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"”, New Literary History, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1984, 607-630. Television and Literature: David Foster Wallace's Concept of ImageFiction, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, retrieved July 07 2013. http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_2.2.html Tichi, Cecilia, Electronic Hearth, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 1991. Wallace, David, Foster, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 13.2, 1993, 151-94. Wallace, David, Foster, “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 8:1, 1988, 38-9. Wallace, David, Foster, Girl with Curious Hair, Abacus, London, 2010, 55- Wallace, David, Foster, "Little Expressionless Animals" Girl with Curious Hair, Abacus, London, 2010, 1-42.
Abstract
Bu makale aşırı televizyon izlemenin bireyleri gerçek dünyadan uzaklaştırmaya ve kendi iç dünyalarında boşluk yaratmaya hizmet ederek onları nasıl ‘ifadesiz hayvanlar’ yaptığı ile ilgili bir eleştiri sunmak için David Foster Wallace tarafından yazılmış Küçük İfadesiz Hayvanlar öyküsünün ayrıntılarına inmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Yazar, bozulmuş görüntülerin ve televizyon programlarına sık sık maruz kalmanın, gerçekliğin yanlış algılanması, görsel şekillerin kişileştirilmesi ve yapay bir dünyada kendini kaybetmeye sebep olduğunu gösterme çabasındadır. Varoluşsal gerçeklik ve görsel, keyfi ortamın karıştırılması, görüntü olan 'gösteren'i ve gerçek şey olan 'gösterilen'i ayırt etmede başarısızlığa yol açar. Televizyon tarafından oluşturulan bir sanrısal dünyada yaşayan bireyler gösteren (TV görüntüleri) ile gösterileni (gerçek hayatta olan olayları, etkinlikleri veya nesneleri) karıştırırlar. Yazar içbükey (konkav) - dışbükey (konveks) ifadesi ile yüzleri metafor olarak kullanır ve Parmigianino tarafından yapılan bir portreye dayanan John Ashbery’nin şiiri "Dış Bükey Aynada Kendi Portresi"nden esinlenmiştir. Hem Wallace, hem de Ashbery ironi ve iç ve dış benliği yansıtan paradoksu göstermektedirler.
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References
- Annesley, James, “Review Essay David Foster Wallace”, Journal of American Studies, 43,1, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2009, 131–134 Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, January 20, 2003, retrieved July 05 2013. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/self-portrait-in-aconvex-mirror/ Bellow, Saul. "Some Notes on Recent American Fiction", Encounter, 5, 1963, 22-29. Harris, Charles B., “David Foster Wallace: That Distinctive Singular Stamp Of Himself”, Critique, Taylor & Francis Group, 51, 2010,168–176. Holland, Mary K., “The Art’s Heart’s Purpose: Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest”, Critique, Heldref Publications, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2006, 218-242.
- McCaffery, Larry, “An Interview with David Foster Wallace”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 13.2, 1993, 127-50. Phillips, Brian, “The Negative Style of David Foster Wallace”, The Hudson Review, 2005, 675-682. Saussure, Ferdinand de, Course in General Linguistics, London: Duckworth, 1983. Stamelman, Richard. “Critical Reflections: Poetry and Art Criticism in Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"”, New Literary History, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1984, 607-630. Television and Literature: David Foster Wallace's Concept of ImageFiction, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, retrieved July 07 2013. http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_2.2.html Tichi, Cecilia, Electronic Hearth, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 1991. Wallace, David, Foster, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 13.2, 1993, 151-94. Wallace, David, Foster, “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 8:1, 1988, 38-9. Wallace, David, Foster, Girl with Curious Hair, Abacus, London, 2010, 55- Wallace, David, Foster, "Little Expressionless Animals" Girl with Curious Hair, Abacus, London, 2010, 1-42.
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| Primary Language | Turkish |
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| Journal Section | Articles |
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| Publication Date | December 1, 2012 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2013 Volume: 2013 Issue: XVI |