Abstract
This article examines remediated examples of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (1915). Eliot’s innovative dramatic monologue has sustained an enduring inter-media afterlife, mainly because visual artists generally capitalized on the poem’s residual Victorian painterly and semi-narrative qualities. Here I look at a wider range of visual forms from old and new media that, for both pedagogic and artistic purposes, remediate the poem’s ekphrastic, semi-narrative and modernist aesthetics: the comic strip, the animated film, the dramatic monologue film, the split-screen video poem and the photographic spatial montage. Together, they demonstrate the dialogic and multi-directional nature of remediation and articulate via inter-media strategies various literary properties and themes (e.g., character, setting, visual motifs, paralysis) of ‘Prufrock’.
Highlights
As I have argued elsewhere, the ekphrastic dimensions of T.S
The enduring inter-media appeal of ‘Prufrock’ has much to do with the poem being a ‘semi-narrative’ monologue that lends itself to remediation in visual narrative forms
Despite the fact that Eliot subverts the traditional sense of a specific or fully rounded character and naturalistic setting, most remediated examples found on YouTube are ‘inhabited’ dramatic monologues that render Prufrock into a modern-day archetype
Summary
As I have argued elsewhere, the ekphrastic dimensions (the painterly aspects) of T.S. The enduring inter-media appeal of ‘Prufrock’ has much to do with the poem being a ‘semi-narrative’ monologue that lends itself to remediation in visual narrative forms. Julian Peters, graphic art remediation is a means of unlocking poetry for a new visual media generation. Despite the fact that Eliot subverts the traditional sense of a specific or fully rounded character and naturalistic setting, most remediated examples found on YouTube are ‘inhabited’ dramatic monologues that render Prufrock into a modern-day archetype They capitalize on what Conrad Aiken described as a “semi-narrative psychological” portrait Arts 2020, 9, x FOR PEER REVIEW words, Peters creates a semi-narrative through recurring visual motifs, such as Prufrock’s face mirror to echo the line “To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”
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