“Shirt of Noise”, la fibre de l'incongru dans The Age of Wire and String de Ben Marcus
Abstract
This article sets out to identify the sources of incongruity in The Age of Wire and String in order to examine whether the incongruous elements and relationships that are present in this text become literary tools which put forth a de-categorized view of the world. The incongruous nature of the text disrupts the referential relationship that the reader establishes between the world of fiction and the world of reality. As a result, the reader is provided with counterintuitive ways of perceiving and apprehending reality. In The Age of Wire and String the incongruous quality of the textual space disrupts its semantic networks and abolishes its intertextual determinations; thus new relationships are established which deny the reader the possibility to firmly grasp the meaning of the text. I will highlight the discursive strategies that are used as well as the levels on which the incongruous components operate so as to highlight the underlying play of references which renders perception unautomated. Moreover, it constantly updates a network of new meanings which allows the text to reveal itself to the reader as the Other that must remain that way.
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