Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word and Image (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 95) (Internationale Forschungen ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

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. Setting The Tone: The Challenges Of Representation I. Speaking For Pictures: Languages And Abstract Art / James A.w. Heffernan -- Early Modern To Modern: Representations, Appropriations. Seeing And Writing Venus In Spenser, Shakespeare, Titian / Derek Brewer ; John Donne's Arcimboldesque Wit In To Sir Edward Herbert. At Julyers: A Partial Reading / Jesús Cora ; Perspective And Framing In Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries Of Udolpho And In The Work Of Caspar David Friedrich / Silvia Quinteiro ; William Hogarth Seen By Pinheiro Chagas: Looking At Britain And Writing About Portugal / Gabriela Gândara Terenas ; Visual Portraits And Literary Portraits: The Intertextual Dialogue Between Holbein And Ford Madox Ford / Vita Fortunati -- Crossing Images, Changing Places. Fictions Of The Art World: Art, Art History And The Art Historian In Literary Space / Charlotte Schoell-glass ; A Reading Of Michel Butor's La Modification As An Emblematic Iconotext / Sonia Lagerwall ; The Making Of The Eiffel Tower As A Modern Icon / Gabriel Insausti ; Reflections On Baudelaire's Paris: Photography, Modernity And Memory / Lauren S. Weingarden -- Women And The Intermedium -- Portraits And Causes. Les Filles D'Ève In Word And Image / Elizabeth K. Menon ; Paula Rego's Painterly Narratives: Jane Eyre And Wide Sargasso Sea--a Dictionary Of Images / Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira ; Looking For Clues: Mcguckian, Poems And Portraits / Rui Carvalho Homem -- Ambivalent Narratives: A.s. Byatt. Matisse And Women: Portraits By A.s. Byatt / Isabel Fernandes ; More Than Words: The Elusive Language Of A.s. Byatt's Visual Fiction / Margarida Esteves Pereira ; Ekphrasis As Portrait: A.s. Byatt's Fictional And Visual Doppelgänger / Paola Spinozzi. The Lens And The Print: Text, Photo, Semiotics. A Kind Of Patriotism: Jack Kerouac's Introduction To Robert Frank's The Americans (1959) / Caroline Blinder ; 3 (ultimate) Journeys: Fulton, Weiner & Kiefer / Maria De Fátima Lambert ; Karen Knorr And Tracey Moffat: When The Photographer Chooses The Words In Order To Photograph The Images / Adriana Baptista ; An Act Of Erasure: October And The Index / Peter Ed Muir -- Stage And Screen, East And West. The Semiotics Of The Body: Ritual And Dance In Soyinka's Drama / Rosa Branca Figueiredo ; An Inheritance Of Horror: The Shadow Of Das Kabinett Des Doktor Caligari In Salman Rushie's Shame / Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia ; The Ethnographer's Eye: Vision, Narration, And Poetic Imagery In Contemporary Anthropological Film / Michaela Schäuble -- High And Low, Learned And Popular: Straying Narratives. Looking At The Written Text On Television / Laura Fernanda Bulger ; Listen To Me: Influence Of Shojo Manga On Contemporary Japanese Women's Writing / Yoko Ono ; The Link Between Text And Image In Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit De Céline By Tardi / Marie-manuelle Silva -- Arts And Crafts: Composite Skills. Pulsating Visions--idioms Incarnate: Wassily Kandinsky Amidst Stage, Pen And Brush / Anabela Mendes ; From Medieval Manuscripts To Postmodern Hypertexts In The Art Of David Jones / Anne Price-owen ; Visual And Verbal Representations In The Scottish Novel: The Artistry Of Alasdair Gray / Dominique Costa ; When What You See Is What You Read / Gil Maia -- Postscript: The Long Perspective, Or, The Challenges Of Representation Ii. The Root Of Forms / José Jiménez. Edited By Rui Carvalho Homem And Maria De Fátima Lambert. The Present Volume Derives Its Impetus And Title From A Research Project, Writing And Seeing, And Most Of Its Contents From A Conference That In October 2003 Materialised The Project's Rationale.--introduction. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 collections 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.