• Visual Representation in the Work of Joseph Roth, 1923-1932
    Thesis submitted to the University of St Andrews for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
    https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/317/THESIS_FINAL_07.pdf;jsessionid=2230114D820D3396888


    Une analyse des images textuelles dans l’oeuvre du plus grand auteur journalistique de langue allemande. C’est particulièrement intéressant parce qu’il semble qu’il ait utilisé une approche déscriptive couramment employée de nos jours . Ainsi il n’est pas exclu qu’on lui découvre la qualité de précurseur pour le journalisme qu’on attribue à Goya pour la peinture.

    Through an examination of Joseph Roth’s reportage and fiction published between 1923 and 1932, this thesis seeks to provide a systematic analysis of a particular aspect of the author’s literary style, namely his use of sharply focused visual representations, which are termed Heuristic Visuals . Close textual analysis, supplemented by insights from reader-response theory, psychology, psycholinguistics and sociology illuminate the function of these visual representations.

    The thesis also seeks to discover whether there are significant differences and correspondences in the use of visual representations between the reportage and fiction genres.

    Roth believed that writers should be engagiert , and that the truth could
    only be arrived at through close observation of reality, not subordinated to theory.

    Je n’ai pas encore lu le texte entier, mais il est trés prometteur.

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