Three-Dimensional Woman
Picture Theory
Woman (n.)
Picture Theory: "a proposition is a picture of reality."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Visual Discourses of Female Desire in Brossard's Holographic Hyperfiction
You are about to embark on a strange voyage into the universe of the three-dimensional woman. Things are not what they seem. The visual is given preference over the verbal and the 'logic' of the Imaginary guides you into utopian space. Nicole Brossard's holographic grammar in her novel Picture Theory is that of the aerial woman who is actively adrift on a sea of sensations, reclaiming language for women through the body. Although the compass at the bottom of each window of this exploration of that text seems to suggest a permanence or continuity, there is no guarantee where each turn in this spiraling feminine labyrinth will lead you. Some of the images are also portals to other worlds. Allow yourself to drift in the fluid lexicon of Brossard's visual discourses.
Entrances | Retort: Holofiction + Hyperfiction = Magic | Illuminations | Reflections | Chronology | Torsion | Exits | Spirals | Intertexts
Carolyn Guertin