Journal | JoLMA
Monographic journal issue | 2 | 1 | 2021
Research Article | On the Narrative Potential of Depiction
On the Narrative Potential of Depiction
Abstract
The aim of this article is to defend the narrative potential of depiction against different strands of skepticism that proceed from the lack of temporal order in a single static image: such images, it has been argued, cannot represent the temporal components of narratives – i.e. action(s) and/or causal relations between temporally ordered actions or events. Contemporary philosophers of depiction have strongly challenged the strand of skepticism that focuses on the representation of action(s), but the strand which focuses on the representation of causal relations may seem to be intractable. Yet, I will argue, it rests on a rather partial conception of causation that unduly directs attention to the dimension of time rather than to the dimension of space – the uncontested domain of depiction
Submitted: Feb. 10, 2021 | Accepted: April 2, 2021 | Published June 30, 2021 | Language: en
Keywords Pictorial narratives • Narrative media • Depiction • Narrative images • Causation • Narration
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2021/01/005
