The Art of the Text
Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media
Published on 30. September 2013
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7083-2659-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes through which writers think and readers respond visually and, in essays by researchers in literature, screen and visual studies, the volume explores the visuality of the literary and non-literary text, with a sustained focus on French material of the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Visuality is appraised here not as a state, but as a set of processes of adaptation, resistance, negotiation, and transformation. By reading visually, the contributors here reactivate the visual-textual relations of canonical texts - from Romanticism to Naturalism, Surrealism to high Modernism; from film to fan literature, television to picture language.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2659-6 (9780708326596)
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Susan Harrow
The Art of the Text
Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media
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09/2013
University of Wales Press
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Person
Susan Harrow is Ashley Watkins Professor of French at the University of Bristol. Her research interests lie in modern poetry and narrative, and in the interrelation of literary modernism and visual culture. She is the author of books on modern French poetry and narrative.
Content
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface 1. Introduction Susan Harrow Thinking the Visual Image 2. Jules Verne: The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing Timothy Unwin 3. Affinities of Photography and Syntax in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu Aine Larkin 4. Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne' Nina Parish 5. Into the 'trou noir': Visualizations of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Modiano Jenny Devine Intermedial Migrations in the 1920s 6. Painting and Cinema in Aragon's Anicet Katherine Shingler 7. Isotypes and Elephants: Picture Language as Visual Writing in Otto Neurath Michelle Henning 8. Colette : An Eye for Textiles Anne Freadman 9. Stars as Sculpture in the 1920s Fan-Magazine Interview Michael Williams Visual Negotiations and Adaptations 10. Victor Hugo and Painting: The Exceptional Case of the Orientales Karen Quandt 11. Visions and Re-visions: Zola, Cardinal and L'Aiuvre Kate Griffiths 12. Donner a voir: Poetic Language and Visual Representation according to Paul Eluard Peter Hawkins 13. A Heteromedial Analysis of Chantal Akerman's Proust Adaptation Jorgen Bruhn