The Vertigo of Technology and its Uncanniness

Autores

  • Gabriela Semensato Ferreira UFRGS/Mestrado Acadêmico/Bolsa CNPq

Resumo

Published for the first time during the 1930’s Great Depression, Vertigo is a “wordless novel”, according to its author Lynd Ward. This work marks the historic moment when various technologies are integrated to the urban life, such as the train, the telephone and the cars, showing how these changes interact with the capitalist crisis lived at that time. Thus, Ward recreates multiple sensations of vertigo using the woodcutting technique in this precursor of the graphic novel. This article relates the impacts of technology to the notion of uncanny and the reception of this work among artists.

Biografia do Autor

Gabriela Semensato Ferreira, UFRGS/Mestrado Acadêmico/Bolsa CNPq

Mestranda em Letras com ênfase em Literatura Comparada. Áreas de pesquisa: Teoria da Literatura, Literaturas de Língua Inglesa e Literatura Comparada.

Referências

AUSTER, Paul. 1994. Mr. Vertigo. Great Britain: Faber and Faber Limited.

EISNER, Will. 1985. Comics and Sequential Art. United States: Poorhouse Press.

FREUD, Sigmund. 1919. The Uncanny. San Diego: San Diego State University. Available at: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~amtower/uncanny.html.

GARCÍA, Santiago. 2010. A Novela Gráfica. São Paulo: Martins Fontes.

JENTSCH, Ernst. 1906. On the Psychology of the Uncanny. Illinois: Northwestern University. Translated by Roy Sellars. Available at: http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/german/uncanny/Jentsch.pdf.

McCARTHY, Tom. 2010. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard. The Guardian. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/tom-mccarthy-futurists-novels-technology.

McCLOUD, Scott. 1993. Understanding Comics. United States: Harper Collins.

WARD, Lynd. 2009. Vertigo: a novel in woodcuts. New York: Dover.

______. 1934. The monster gazes into a pool. Illustrations for Frankenstein. Available at: http://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/LYNDWARD.HTM.

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Publicado

12-05-2015

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Ferreira, G. S. (2015). The Vertigo of Technology and its Uncanniness. Revista Investigações, 27(1). Recuperado de https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/INV/article/view/193

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Artigo - Linguística (seção livre)