Ali Smith’s How to be Both and the Nachleben of Aby Warburg

dc.contributor.authorKusek, Robert
dc.contributor.authorSzymański, Wojciech
dc.date.issued2020-06-26
dc.description.abstractThis paper offers a reading of Ali Smith’s 2014 novel, How to Be Both , in the context of Aby Warburg’s iconological interpretation of the frescoes by Francesco del Cossa in the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara. Having reconstructed the story behind the creation, attribution, and reading of the frescoes, the paper argues for recognizing them as a major source of inspiration for Smith’s narrative. Furthermore, the principle of “bothness” is recognized as the novel’s foremost concern; both formal—pertaining to paratextual, graphic, and typeset solutions employed by the narrative—and thematic. With the help of Warburg’s concept of Nachleben and his proposition of traveling forms and images, How to Be Both is ultimately identified as a novel vitally indebted to Warburg’s theoretical and interpretative model. Last but not least, it testifies to the “after-life” of Warburg’s ideas. (RK, WSZ)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 No. 2 (2017) ,
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/294892en
dc.identifier.volume23
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7315
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.subjectAli Smithen
dc.subjectHow to Be Bothen
dc.subjectAby Warburgen
dc.subjectNachlebenen
dc.titleAli Smith’s How to be Both and the Nachleben of Aby Warburgen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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