A Question

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Tim Strzechowski schrieb:

> Just out of curiosity, is there a literary term for an author's use of
> an image or drawing within a written text, like Pynchon's use of the
> post horn in CoL49 or the pointing finger in GR?  I know other authors
> make use of this device, like Sterne and Tolkien, but I wonder if
> there's a specific lit term for it.


   "hyper-graphicity"? well, probably not. last year i wrote here one or two 
   mails about "graphicity in pynchon's prose" (since i do not have them 
   anymore, the only way to get it, i'm afraid, is to check the archives). 
   back then i also noted the fact that pynchon does not use images or drawings 
   in his later books. the old spelling in mason & dixon might be perceived as 
   another form of "hyper-graphicity", though. 

kai frederik, diletantish collage-artist