Background
Gaggi, Silvio was born on August 5, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Peter William and Clara (Serafini) Gaggi.
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From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction) by Silvio Gaggi (1998-09-01)
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From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)
( It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—th...)
It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From Text to Hypertext, analyzing the issue of subject construction and deconstruction in selected examples of visual art, literature, film, and electronic media. Gaggi concentrates on a few paradigmatic works in each chapter; he contrasts van Eyck's Wedding of Arnolfini with the photography of Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger; examines fiction that centers on an elusive subject in works by Conrad, Faulkner, and Calvino; and explores the ability of such films as Coppola's One from the Heart and Altman's The Player to emancipate the subject through cinematography and editing. In considering electronic media, Gaggi takes his argument to an entirely new level. He focuses on computer-controlled media, specifically examples of hypertextual fiction by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop. Besides recognizing how the computer has enabled artists to create works of fiction in which readers themselves become decentered, Gaggi also observes the impact of literature created on computer networks, where even the limitations of CD-ROM are lifted and the notion of individual authorship may for all practical purposes be lost.
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Silvio Gaggi
Edit Profilehumanities and American Studies educator
Education
Bachelor in English, University of Michigan, 1964; Master of Arts in English, Wayne State University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Arts, Ohio U., 1972.
Career
Part-time lecturer, Eastern Michigan U., Ypsilanti, 1967-1969; teaching assistant in comparative arts, Ohio U., Athens, 1969-1972; from instructor to associate professor humanities, U. South Florida, Tampa, 1972-1986; chair humanities, U. South Florida, Tampa, 1982-1988; professor humanities, U. South Florida, Tampa, since 1986; chair humanities and American studies, U. South Florida, Tampa, since 1996.
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From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)
( It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—th...)
- From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Art
- From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction) by Silvio Gaggi (1998-09-01)
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From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)
Membership
Member Modern Language Association.
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Married Patricia Torre, June 4, 1975. Children: Marisa, Olivia.
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Political Party
Democrat