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Literary Impressionism: The Nature of Perception and Experience

Explore the decentering of plot in literary impressionism, emphasizing the fluidity of experience and perception. Dive into how artists like Joseph Conrad challenge traditional narrative structures, inviting readers to engage actively in decoding impressions rather than focusing solely on plot twists. Delve into the complexities of consciousness, uncertainty, and subjective truths in this immersive literary journey.

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Literary Impressionism: The Nature of Perception and Experience

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  1. Literary Impressionism Decentering Plot, Emphasizing Experience

  2. Impressionism in Art The Nature of Perception

  3. Perfect detail by photography Limited vision controlled by conditions of observation The invention of photography diminished interest in perfect replication by painting.

  4. Rapid change in the world disordered established ways of thinking, believing, and living.

  5. Impressionist artists were interested in new science about the way the brain processes what it sees.

  6. The brain experiences a delay between intake of visual information and the much slower process of understanding what is seen.

  7. The Changing Effects of Light

  8. Limited and ambiguous perception

  9. Delayed coding of perception

  10. Unstable, flickering, inconsistent Spontaneous, unfinished, inward

  11. Light colors the perception of reality. What do we really see? What do we really know?

  12. “Writing should be like painting, or music, the queen of the arts.” Joseph Conrad

  13. Impressionism in Literature The Nature of Perception

  14. “We live as we dream – alone.”Joseph ConradIt is difficult to escape from the private reality of personality.

  15. It is possible, however, to change the way we see the world as a whole by experiencing another individual’s perception.

  16. What happens? What do I think happened? Perception Consciousness Non-linear Uncertainty Contradictions Subjective Dialecticism Truths • Plot • Events • Linear • Certainty • Narrative • Objective • Didacticism • Truth Plot Experience

  17. Literary impressionists create an experience, not a plot. The process of understanding is an active, not passive, reading experience. Conrad wants the reader to be confused at times.

  18. Reading Conrad is a journey, a quest, an experience. Your personal experience of the perceptions, not the plot, matters.“Half of the book belongs to the writer. The other half belongs to the reader.”Joseph Conrad

  19. What is real?The surface of events can be different from what is really happening.

  20. A literary artist suggests with images, using small brushstrokes and strong color. The reader experiences the gap between the impression and processing the message in the brain. THE PROCESS MATTERS.

  21. The process is the force of your own brain. If Conrad had wanted for you to simply read a summary, he would have written the summary himself. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

  22. Images • Colors • Allusions • Memory • Confusion • Ambiguity • Information • Incompleteness Irony Hypocrisy Surprise Shock Horror Pity Comprehension Explanation Delayed Decoding: deferred identification or understanding of perception

  23. Spontaneous • Fragmented • Strong colors • Observations under specific conditions • Limited vision • Revisions • Simulation of light (vision) • Changes in light (vision) • Shadows & sunlight • Ambiguity • Distortion • Small brush strokes (details leading to big picture • Sketchlike • exploring consciousness to discover how much we do not know and can never know, even if we are absolutely certain about what we think we know • Reader’s participation in delayed decoding and working toward closure • the haze or glow around the plot that matters more than plot Literary Impressionism

  24. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.

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