Mariani, M: What Images Really Tell Us

INTRODUCTION: POETRY AND IMAGE

PART 1

THE TALE

THE IMAGESA LOOK AT PARTS OF SPEECH.Nouns. Adjectives. Verbs. Direct objects.

RHETORIC AS VERBO-VISUAL ARTICULATION

CATALOGUE OF THE MAIN RHETORICAL FIGURES OF SPEECHMetaphor. Metonymy. Synecdoche. Anastrophe. Syndeton. Hyperbole. Onomatopoeia. Pleonasm. Ekphrasis. Ellipsis. From collage to post-production an aside on surrealism and computers. Antiphrasis. Irony. An Election Entertainment. Canvassing for Votes. The Polling. Chairing the Member.

RECOGNITION AND RESEMBLANCE FOR THREE VOICES

METALEPSIS: FROM THE VERBAL TO THE VISUALVerbal examples. Visual examples.

MOSES AND THE INSURANCE COMPANY.

THE CHARACTER GESTURE.

CHARAKTERANALYSE AND THE ICONOLOGY OF CESARE RIPA

PART II

RHETORICAL ARTICULATION APPLIED TO NARRATION

THE GIALLO AND THE NOIR: TWO MODELS OF RHETORICAL NARRATIONThe plot of the giallo. The plot of the noir. Two points of view.

VERBO-VISUAL MODELS OF RHETORICAL FIGURESSeeing the ending. Closed ending. Open ending. Circular ending. Finding ideas and forms for a narrative plot. The visual, the verbal and the secret explained by Ernest Hemingway. Examples of analogy.

THE EMPORIUM OF IDEASNews, preferably about vicious crime. Conversations with friends or girlfriends, preferably nasty. Television, preferably trash. Character, preferably a bad one. The visible and hidden images of a plot.

THE RHETORIC OF THE CHARACTERThe character is introduced. The nature and the tone of the character. Dramatis persona and character. Well-rounded character. Blurred character. Linear character. Contrasted character. Static character. Dynamic character. THE RHETORIC OF CONFLICTContrast and conflict in noir. Three examples of noir (visual and verbal).



THE SETTING AS A COLLECTION OF ELEMENTS HOSTING THE ACTION.The environment and the scene. A harmonic environment. A

Massimo Mariani, a graduate in painting at the Accademia di Brera, has exhibited in numerous galleries in Italy and abroad. He is a prolific author with many books published in Italian on such diverse topics as Freud and the subconscious, the representation of the feminine, detective stories and poetry.