Writing and Seeing
Essays on Word and Image
Published on 1. January 2005
Book
Hardback
403 pages
978-90-420-1698-9 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this volume are informed by a variety of theoretical assumptions and of critical methodologies, but they all share an interest in the intersections of word and image in a variety of media. This unifying rationale secures the present collection's central position in the current critical context, defined as it predominantly is by ways of reading that are based on a relational nexus. The intertextual, the intermedial, the intersemiotic are indeed foregrounded and combined in these essays, conceptually as much as in the critical practices favoured by the various contributions.
Studies of literature in its relation to pictorial genres enjoy a relative prominence in the volume - but the range of media and of approaches considered is broad enough to include photography, film, video, television, comic strips, animated film, public art, material culture.
The backgrounds of contributors are likewise diverse - culturally, academically, linguistically.
The volume combines contributions by prominent scholars and critics with essays by younger scholars, from a variety of backgrounds. The resulting plurality of perspective is indeed a source of new insights into the relations between writing and seeing, and it contributes to making this collection an exciting new contribution to word and image studies.
Studies of literature in its relation to pictorial genres enjoy a relative prominence in the volume - but the range of media and of approaches considered is broad enough to include photography, film, video, television, comic strips, animated film, public art, material culture.
The backgrounds of contributors are likewise diverse - culturally, academically, linguistically.
The volume combines contributions by prominent scholars and critics with essays by younger scholars, from a variety of backgrounds. The resulting plurality of perspective is indeed a source of new insights into the relations between writing and seeing, and it contributes to making this collection an exciting new contribution to word and image studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
962 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1698-9 (9789042016989)
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Content
Introduction
1. Setting the Tone: The Challenges of Representation I
James A.W. HEFFERNAN: Speaking for Pictures: Language and Abstract Art
2. Early Modern to Modern: representations, appropriations
Derek BREWER: Seeing and Writing Venus in Spenser, Shakespeare, Titian
Jesus CORA: John Donne's Arcimboldesque Wit in "To Sir Edward Herbert. At Julyers": A Partial Reading
Silvia QUINTEIRO: Perspective and Framing in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. and in the Work of Caspar David Friedrich
Gabriela GANDARA TERENAS: William Hogarth seen by Pinheiro Chagas: looking at Britain and writing about Portugal
Vita FORTUNATI: Visual Portraits and Literary Portraits: the Intertextual Dialogue between Holbein and Ford Madox Ford
3. Crossing Images, Changing Places
Charlotte SCHOELL-GLASS: Fictions of the Art World: Art, Art History and the Art Historian in Literary Space
Sonia LAGERWALL: A Reading of Michel Butor's La Modification as an Emblematic Iconotext
Gabriel INSAUSTI: The Making of The Eiffel Tower as a Modern Icon
Lauren S. WEINGARDEN: Reflections on Baudelaire's Paris: Photography, Modernity and Memory
4. Women and the Intermedium
4.1. Portraits and Causes
Elizabeth K. MENON: Les Filles d'Eve in Word and Image
Maria Aline SEABRA FERREIRA: Paula Rego's Painterly Narratives: Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea - A Dictionary of Images
Rui Carvalho Homem: Looking for Clues: McGuckian, poems and portraits
4.2. Ambivalent Narratives: A.S. Byatt
Isabel FERNANDES: Matisse and Women: Portraits by A.S. Byatt
Margarida ESTEVES PEREIRA: More than Words: the Elusive Language of A.S. Byatt's Visual Fiction
Paola SPINOZZI: Ekphrasis as Portrait: A.S. Byatt's Fictional and Visual Doppelgaenger
5. The Lens and the Print: text, photo, semiotics
Caroline BLINDER: "A Kind of Patriotism": Jack Kerouac's Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans (1959)
Maria de FATIMA LAMBERT: 3 (Ultimate) Journeys: Fulton, Weiner & Kiefer
Adriana BAPTISTA: Karen Knorr and Tracey Moffat: When the photographer chooses the words in order to photograph the images
Peter ED MUIR: An Act of Erasure: October and the Index
6. Stage and Screen, East and West
Rosa Branca FIGUEIREDO: The Semiotics of the Body: Ritual and Dance in Soyinka's Drama
Maria Sofia PIMENTEL BISCAIA: An Inheritance of Horror: the Shadow of Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari in Salman Rushdie's Shame
Michaela SCHAEUBLE: The Ethnographer's Eye: Vision, Narration, and Poetic Imagery in Contemporary Anthropological Film
7. High and Low, Learned and Popular: straying narratives
Laura Fernanda BULGER: Looking at the Written Text on Television
Yoko ONO: Listen to Me: Influence of Shojo manga on contemporary Japanese women's writing
Marie-Manuelle SILVA: The Link Between Text and Image in Voyage au bout de la nuit de Celine by Tardi
8. Arts and Crafts: composite skills
Anabela MENDES: Pulsating Visions - Idioms Incarnate: Wassily Kandinsky Amidst Stage, Pen and Brush
Anne PRICE-OWEN: From Medieval Manuscripts to Postmodern Hypertexts in the Art of David Jones
Dominique COSTA: Visual and Verbal Representations in the Scottish Novel: The Artistry of Alasdair Gray
Gil MAIA: When what you see is what you read
9. Postscript: the Long Perspective, or, The Challenges of Representation II
Jose JIMENEZ: The Root of Forms
Index
1. Setting the Tone: The Challenges of Representation I
James A.W. HEFFERNAN: Speaking for Pictures: Language and Abstract Art
2. Early Modern to Modern: representations, appropriations
Derek BREWER: Seeing and Writing Venus in Spenser, Shakespeare, Titian
Jesus CORA: John Donne's Arcimboldesque Wit in "To Sir Edward Herbert. At Julyers": A Partial Reading
Silvia QUINTEIRO: Perspective and Framing in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. and in the Work of Caspar David Friedrich
Gabriela GANDARA TERENAS: William Hogarth seen by Pinheiro Chagas: looking at Britain and writing about Portugal
Vita FORTUNATI: Visual Portraits and Literary Portraits: the Intertextual Dialogue between Holbein and Ford Madox Ford
3. Crossing Images, Changing Places
Charlotte SCHOELL-GLASS: Fictions of the Art World: Art, Art History and the Art Historian in Literary Space
Sonia LAGERWALL: A Reading of Michel Butor's La Modification as an Emblematic Iconotext
Gabriel INSAUSTI: The Making of The Eiffel Tower as a Modern Icon
Lauren S. WEINGARDEN: Reflections on Baudelaire's Paris: Photography, Modernity and Memory
4. Women and the Intermedium
4.1. Portraits and Causes
Elizabeth K. MENON: Les Filles d'Eve in Word and Image
Maria Aline SEABRA FERREIRA: Paula Rego's Painterly Narratives: Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea - A Dictionary of Images
Rui Carvalho Homem: Looking for Clues: McGuckian, poems and portraits
4.2. Ambivalent Narratives: A.S. Byatt
Isabel FERNANDES: Matisse and Women: Portraits by A.S. Byatt
Margarida ESTEVES PEREIRA: More than Words: the Elusive Language of A.S. Byatt's Visual Fiction
Paola SPINOZZI: Ekphrasis as Portrait: A.S. Byatt's Fictional and Visual Doppelgaenger
5. The Lens and the Print: text, photo, semiotics
Caroline BLINDER: "A Kind of Patriotism": Jack Kerouac's Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans (1959)
Maria de FATIMA LAMBERT: 3 (Ultimate) Journeys: Fulton, Weiner & Kiefer
Adriana BAPTISTA: Karen Knorr and Tracey Moffat: When the photographer chooses the words in order to photograph the images
Peter ED MUIR: An Act of Erasure: October and the Index
6. Stage and Screen, East and West
Rosa Branca FIGUEIREDO: The Semiotics of the Body: Ritual and Dance in Soyinka's Drama
Maria Sofia PIMENTEL BISCAIA: An Inheritance of Horror: the Shadow of Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari in Salman Rushdie's Shame
Michaela SCHAEUBLE: The Ethnographer's Eye: Vision, Narration, and Poetic Imagery in Contemporary Anthropological Film
7. High and Low, Learned and Popular: straying narratives
Laura Fernanda BULGER: Looking at the Written Text on Television
Yoko ONO: Listen to Me: Influence of Shojo manga on contemporary Japanese women's writing
Marie-Manuelle SILVA: The Link Between Text and Image in Voyage au bout de la nuit de Celine by Tardi
8. Arts and Crafts: composite skills
Anabela MENDES: Pulsating Visions - Idioms Incarnate: Wassily Kandinsky Amidst Stage, Pen and Brush
Anne PRICE-OWEN: From Medieval Manuscripts to Postmodern Hypertexts in the Art of David Jones
Dominique COSTA: Visual and Verbal Representations in the Scottish Novel: The Artistry of Alasdair Gray
Gil MAIA: When what you see is what you read
9. Postscript: the Long Perspective, or, The Challenges of Representation II
Jose JIMENEZ: The Root of Forms
Index