Diversity of the language of form: verbal and visual nature of the Liberature Collection from the University Library, Poznań, illustrated by a number of selected examples Cover Image

Zróżnicowanie języka formy – wizualno-werbalny charakter kolekcji Liberatura ze zbiorów Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu na podstawie wybranych przykładów
Diversity of the language of form: verbal and visual nature of the Liberature Collection from the University Library, Poznań, illustrated by a number of selected examples

Author(s): Agnieszka Rybarczyk
Subject(s): Library operations and management, Other, Sociology of Education
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: liberature; space; verbality; visuality (mental image); typography; non-linearity; physicality of a work;

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses a number of examples of liberature works, in which the text and the material form of a book constitute an inseparable whole and the artistic mes- sage is transmitted not only through the verbal medium, but also through the author “speaking” via book as a whole, from the perspective of verbal and visual communication. The paper focuses on the following works: Anne Carson’s Nox, Herta Müller’s The Guard Takes His Comb, Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik’s Oka-leczenie [Eyes-ore], Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance, and Radosław Nowakowski’s (including the collection of poems Nieopisanie świata [Non-description of the world]). Verbal expressions of an idea or thought and the accompanying mental image in these works permeate and often overlap, thus adding new meanings to the existing ones, and in this way expand their interpretative implications, while the abundance of the solutions adopted by the authors is stunning. At every instance, this formal innovativeness, adjusted appropriately to the content, supports and revises the meanings in a given work, and ad- ditionally influences its reception providing incentives and new stimuli within the reading comprehension process.

  • Issue Year: 36/2023
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 151-175
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish