Dreaming in the ruins
Dreaming in the ruins
Ruins have tended to be treated thematically by art historians and theorists and are few attempts to take the subject beyond the role of metaphor or allegory. However, Jacques Derrida has taken the idea of ruins into the idea of origin and it is this insight that lies at the core of this paper. This leads to the idea of the ruin as a condensation of the end and beginning thereby giving it an important role in relation to narrative structure. The circular narrative is a form in which the end and beginning are stitched together at the same theoretical point as the ruin.
I will be analysising two "texts"; a short story by Borges, The Circular Ruins and the short film by Chris Marker, La jetee in order to demonstrate the connections between the trope of the ruin and the structure of the circular narratives.
ruins, narratives, loops, time, borges, la Jetee, dreams, psychoanalysis, derrida, freud
9984763226
409-422
Hon, Gordon
ca14398f-3e52-46ba-b0ed-35a52d7b8225
2005
Hon, Gordon
ca14398f-3e52-46ba-b0ed-35a52d7b8225
Hon, Gordon
(2005)
Dreaming in the ruins.
In,
Tiapkin, A
(ed.)
International Transactions in the Humanities.
Riga, Latvia.
SIA Jumi, .
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Ruins have tended to be treated thematically by art historians and theorists and are few attempts to take the subject beyond the role of metaphor or allegory. However, Jacques Derrida has taken the idea of ruins into the idea of origin and it is this insight that lies at the core of this paper. This leads to the idea of the ruin as a condensation of the end and beginning thereby giving it an important role in relation to narrative structure. The circular narrative is a form in which the end and beginning are stitched together at the same theoretical point as the ruin.
I will be analysising two "texts"; a short story by Borges, The Circular Ruins and the short film by Chris Marker, La jetee in order to demonstrate the connections between the trope of the ruin and the structure of the circular narratives.
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Published date: 2005
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ruins, narratives, loops, time, borges, la Jetee, dreams, psychoanalysis, derrida, freud
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