
Archaeologies of Visual Culture
Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from 17th to 20th Century Literature
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This book analyzes the interplay of gazes, optical devices and images in literature. Following the developments of Visual Culture studies, literary theory has expanded its original field of investigation and addresses, beyond the traditional relationship between the verbal and the visual, the influence that gazes, optical devices and images can have on literary texts. This research tries to define the literary lives of the scopic regimes of modernity: the gazes of English early modern women's writing, the optical devices in German literature between Classicism and Romanticism, and the images of the mineral world in modern French aesthetics.
This book analyzes different historical and cultural staging of gazes, otpical devices and images in the context of a discipline that goes by the name of visual culture. Here literary studies have contaminated and thus expanded their original field of investigation not only addressing, as in the past, the question of the relationship between verbal and visual, but also giving substance to this interweaving with an in-depth questioning about the meaning gazes, images and vision devices or, more generally, the visual media can have on literature. This research tries to define the ways in which changing cultures have addressed these questions; in particular in which ways English early modern culture, German nineteenth century fantastic, and French twentieth century natural ékphrasis have done it.
This book analyzes different historical and cultural staging of gazes, otpical devices and images in the context of a discipline that goes by the name of visual culture. Here literary studies have contaminated and thus expanded their original field of investigation not only addressing, as in the past, the question of the relationship between verbal and visual, but also giving substance to this interweaving with an in-depth questioning about the meaning gazes, images and vision devices or, more generally, the visual media can have on literature. This research tries to define the ways in which changing cultures have addressed these questions; in particular in which ways English early modern culture, German nineteenth century fantastic, and French twentieth century natural ékphrasis have done it.
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German
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Göttingen
Germany
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mit 38 Abbildungen
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11,70 MB
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978-3-8470-0220-8 (9783847002208)
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Valeria Cammarata | Michele Cometa | Roberta Coglitore
Archaeologies of Visual Culture
Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from 17th to 20th Century Literature
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Prof Dr Valeria Cammarata teaches Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Palermo.
Prof Dr Michele Cometa teaches Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo. His research focuses on German cultural history and aesthetics, literary theory, and visual culture.
Prof Dr Roberta Coglitore teaches Theory of Literature at the University of Palermo. Her research fields are the relationship between literature and visual culture and between literature and mineral world; fantastic literature, studies on the imaginary.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- List of figures
- Michele Cometa: Introduction. Scopic Regimes and Literature
- Part I: Gazes
- Valeria Cammarata: Through Different Eyes. Feminine Science and Literature in Early Modern Culture
- Gaze and Vision
- Subjects
- Beholders
- Displaying Objects
- Facts and Fictions
- Under the mask
- Part II: Optical devices
- Michele Cometa: Framing in Crisis. Literature and Optical Devices in the Age of Hoffmann
- Optical devices and literature
- From Magia Naturalis to the society of the spectacle
- Seeing the Invisible
- The Hoffmann-Device
- Histories of Perception
- Visual Anthropology
- Intermediality
- Schaulust
- Media Archaeology
- Vision and Reality
- Part III: Images
- Roberta Coglitore: Pictures of Nature. Mineral Imagery in Modern French Aesthetics
- Stone Images
- Natural and Artistic Beauty
- Natural Masterpieces
- Descriptions
- Material Imagination
- Poetics of the Gaze
- Visionary Mineralogy
- Pancalism
- Drawings by Matter
- Immemoriality
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