What is it about?
The article focuses on Anne Carson’s Nox, a boxed book published in 2010. In the analysis offered, attention is paid to how Nox’s design, due to the spatial arrangement of its verbal and visual materials, both preserves and enhances personal memory. The book's fold-out construction invites readers to ponder on the missing words and phrases, or the spaces left between its pasted documents in their effort to piece together the experiences shared through them.
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Why is it important?
The article focuses on textual materiality whose importance lies in combining the close reading of a story or narrative on the level of language with the special features and typographical design of the medium through which the story or narrative is presented.
Perspectives
The writing of the particular article has helped me appreciate both the story behind Nox and the challenges of its material construction. What I've found even more intriguing is the way in which the artist has managed not only to preserve the memory that the particular story is based on but also to open the story to the readers' own interpretations and recreations of the original narrative.
Tatiani Rapatzikou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This page is a summary of: Anne Carson’s Nox: Materiality and memory, Book 2 0, April 2017, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/btwo.7.1.57_1.
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