Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts: Page and Stage, Canvas and Screen (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 158)

This collection focuses on texts that address the other arts - from painting to photography, from the stage to the screen, and from avant-garde experiments to mass culture. Despite their diversity of object and approach, the essays in Relational Designs coalesce around the argument that representations are defined by relations and dynamics, rather than intrinsic features. This rationale is supported by the discourses and methodologies favoured by the book's contributors: their approaches offer a cross section of the intellectual and critical environment of our time. The book illustrates the critical possibilities that derive from the broad range of modes of inquiry - poststructuralist criticism, gender studies, postcolonial studies, new historicism - that the book's four sections bring to bear on a wealth of intermedial practices. But Relational Designs compounds such critical emphases with the voice of the practitioner: the book is rounded off by an interview in which a contemporary novelist discusses her attraction to the other arts in terms that extend the book's insights and bridge the gap between academic discourse and artistic practice. Publisher's note Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements General Introduction 1. The Centre of the Canon and its Elsewheres: Shakespeare’s Wanderings A Fellow of Infinite Jest Shaping the Spectacle: Faking, Making and Performing Reality through Shakespeare The Framing of the Shrew: How the Lens Looks upon William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew ‘THE ARTWORK ON EXHIBIT RUNS ABOUT’: Brigitte Maria Meyer’s Filmic Adaptation of Heiner Müller’s Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome 2. Changing Experiences, Changing Discourses: The Challenges of Intermediality Ekphrasis Revisited: Crossing Artistic Boundaries The Cinematograph in the Novel Formal Doubleness and Moral Duplicity: The Holocaust on the Page and Screen Hitchcock Goes East: Postcolonial Gothic in Under Capricorn Bright Star: Reinventing Romantic Poetry for the Screen Reaching Beyond the Commix/Ture: Art Spiegelman’s Maus as Relational Genre Relational Genres, Gapped Narratives, and Metafictional Devices in Daniel Clowes’ David Boring The Verbal and the Visual in Advertising Language: A Cross-cultural Analysis 3. Writing and the Gaze: Inscriptions of the Modern Radical Eye Rhymes: Visual Strategies in Modernist Poetry The Visual Artifact in the Poetry of Thomas McGreevy Humble Relics: Beckett and Van Gogh’s Old Boots The Ekphrastic Evocation of Real-ity and the Modernist Dismantling of Pictorial Frames in Fiction Modernism and the Metropolis: Representing the City as Transitory Spectacle The Modern Work of Art and the Spatialisation of Time: Painting in the Novel Virginia Woolf and the Art of Pain Into the Stride of the Poem 4. Postmodern Shifts: Narrative and the Arts ‘When you look through the eyes of another’: Mary and Lydia Cassatt in Art, Life, and Fiction ‘An agony of perceivedness’? – Gazes and Disguises in the Works of James Joyce and Cindy Sherman The Journey as Pictorial Metaphor in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 ‘Death and the Young Man’: Saramago’s Death at Intervals Performances of Uncertainty in Spaces of Contingency: Aesthetic Confinement and Mechanisms of Silencing in Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, and Park Chan-wook An Afterpiece Painting with Words and Becoming Other People: Theatre and the Visual Arts in Molly Fox’s Birthday and Authenticity – an interview with novelist Deirdre Madden Contributors Index Edited By Rui Carvalho Homem. International Conference Proceedings. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.