The centralized text also gives the illusion of narrower margins which makes the reader feel boxed in. We no longer have the familiar comfort of the paragraph structure, which makes the reader feel uneasy. For example, in his novel “House of Leaves” when Navidson begins to fall down an infinite pit, the text breaks paragraph form to become a stanza. Using this concept of the Signiconic, this paper aims to analyze Danielewski’s writing in order to determine if it is truly able to provide this third perception, or if it simply serves a deconstructionist agenda.Īt first glance, the answer is obvious as the usage of the Signiconic is ubiquitous in Danielewski’s work. Rather than engage those textual faculties of the mind remediating the pictorial or those visual faculties remediating language, the signiconic simultaneously engages both in order to lessen the significance of both and therefore achieve a third perception…” He claims that his work creates a new way in which to engage with literature, which he refers to as signiconic. Danielewski merely trying to deconstruct the concept of the novel, or is he constructing something inherently new? Danielewski believes the latter. Danielewski’s “Only Revolutions” is simply supposed to serve as a praise of the novel’s genre breaking qualities, it raises an interesting question. A Page From the first installement of Danielewski’s “The Familiar Series”
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