Words and Images
A French Rendez-vous
University of Calgary Press
Published on 30. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-55238-259-2 (ISBN)
Description
Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life and do so in many different ways. Building on recent trends in linguistic analysis and visual semiotics, a vibrant interdisciplinary field of inquiry called ""word-and-image studies"" has developed over the past few decades. Much of this new scholarship, however, has originated in the French-speaking world and thus has not been available in English - until now.
Words and Images features six new essays translated from the French by Anthony Wall. These explorations spin an adventurous web through time - from the very beginnings of human language on prehistoric cave walls, to the textual background of early modern and Enlightenment art, to the coexistence of a poem and a coloured drawing on an exterior wall in contemporary Paris - and through interdisciplinary space, from archaeology and anthropology to art history, literary and communications theory, and philosophy of mind.
The volume concludes with a bibliographical essay that provides an extensive summary of the most recent critical studies undertaken in France, Belgium, and Canada.
With Contributions By: Bruno Nassim Aboudrar; Pierre Civil; Beatrice Fraenkel; Stephane Lojkine; Marie-Dominique Popelard; Anthony Wall.
Words and Images features six new essays translated from the French by Anthony Wall. These explorations spin an adventurous web through time - from the very beginnings of human language on prehistoric cave walls, to the textual background of early modern and Enlightenment art, to the coexistence of a poem and a coloured drawing on an exterior wall in contemporary Paris - and through interdisciplinary space, from archaeology and anthropology to art history, literary and communications theory, and philosophy of mind.
The volume concludes with a bibliographical essay that provides an extensive summary of the most recent critical studies undertaken in France, Belgium, and Canada.
With Contributions By: Bruno Nassim Aboudrar; Pierre Civil; Beatrice Fraenkel; Stephane Lojkine; Marie-Dominique Popelard; Anthony Wall.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
With dust jacket
Illustrations
28 black & white and 10 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55238-259-2 (9781552382592)
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Person
Anthony Wall is University Professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Spanish at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of comparative literature, literary theory and the philosophy of language, and the French Enlightenment. Anthony Wall is University Professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Spanish at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of comparative literature, literary theory and the philosophy of language, and the French Enlightenment.
Content
Introduction; Relations Between Culture & Nature: A Critical Consideration; Human Ecology Reconceptualised: A Lens for Relations Between Biological & Cultural Diversity; "Man & His Friends" -- An Illustrative Case of Human Ecology in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada; "The Weather is Going under" -- Human Ecology, Phronesis & Climate Change in Wainwright, Alaska, USA; Mapping Human Ecology: A Transformative Act; Implications of a Human Ecological Outlook; Index.