Sleeping away the factory, healing with time: Gaston Bachelard, the poetic imagination and testről és lélekről/ on body and soul (2017)
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2020
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Walton, S.
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Paragraph, 2020; 43(3):348-363
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<jats:p> Gaston Bachelard distinguishes the radical novelty and newness of the imagination from pre-existing sensory impressions (memory, perception). In this article, I explore Bachelard's connections between time, the imagined image and poetic form, and I consider their implications for the cinema. Concentrating my analysis on Ildikó Enyedi's Testről és lélekről/ On Body and Soul (2017) — a film that alternates between doubled worlds, depictions of human and animal life — I draw out the temporality and the diversity of Bachelard's imagined images. Bringing Bachelard's instant, vertical time and the crystalline to bear on Enyedi's film, I argue that, under the pretext of sleep, rest and dreaming, On Body and Soul engages the temporality and attentiveness of the Bachelardian imagination, together with its poetic effects. </jats:p>
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Copyright 2020 Edinburgh University Press