The Art of the Text
Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media
Published on 15. September 2013
256 pages
978-0-7083-2660-2 (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
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2660-2 (9780708326602)
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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
- Intro
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Thinking the visual image
- Jules Verne: The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing
- Affinities of Photography and Syntax in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
- Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne'
- The 'trou noir': Visualizations of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Modiano
- Intermedial migrations in the 1920s
- Painting and Cinema in Aragon's Anicet
- Isotypes and Elephants: Picture-Language as Visual Writing in the Work and Correspondence of Otto Neurath
- Colette: An Eye for Textiles
- Stars as Sculpture in the 1920s Fan-Magazine Interview
- Visual negotiations and adaptations
- Victor Hugo and Painting: The Exceptional Case of the Orientales
- Visions and Re-visions: Zola, Cardinal and L'OEuvre
- Donner à voir: Poetic Language and Visual Representation according to Paul Éluard
- La lettre au cinéma n'est pas une excellente solution':A Heteromedial Analysis of Chantal Akerman's Proust Adaptation
- Translation sources
- Bibliography
- Index
