Response: Vehicular traffic

Carolyn Williams

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/09502360701841985

Response: Vehicular traffic

Carolyn Williams

SAS - English

Rutgers, The State University

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Abstract

Williams's response to Chandler understands the paradigm of the vehicle historically in terms of a new account of the emotions, one that moves away from transcendence and metaphor towards transport and metonymy. The paper builds on the theme of the displaced, wordlessness of the emotions as a way of reading nineteenth-century melodrama, a precinematic idiom that anticipated modern 'conveyances' of mute emotion such as the freeze frame. Melodrama's implementation of tableau and music thus comes to constitute a language of emotion that is able to convey unrepresentable feeling by displacement, externalizing it as a subject for critical perception and reading.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	47-54
Number of pages	8
Journal	Textual Practice
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09502360701841985
State	Published - 2008

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Literature and Literary Theory

Keywords

Language of emotion
Melodrama
Metaphor
Metonymy
Music
Tableau

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