Picturing the Language of Images
Picturing the Language of Images. Eds. Nancy Pedri and Laurence Petit. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2013.
Picturing the Language of Images brings together established and emerging scholars from around the world to provide a broad exploration of the complex interaction between the verbal and the visual in a variety of media (such as literature, painting, photography, film, and comics, to name but a few) and across time (from the 18th century to the 21st century). These critics攃oming from backgrounds as diverse as literature, art history, book design, and the visual arts攄raw on different methodologies and reading practices to inform their applied analysis of the interplay of words and images in multimodal texts and artefacts.
The book is comprised of 34 essays and divided into 9 sections of 3 or 4 articles that examine and challenge the relationships between texts and images from either a historical, cultural, theoretical, or generic perspective. The sections are:
- Verbal and Visual Literacy
- Iconotextuality and the Limits of Representation
- Ekphrastic Strategies
- Graphic and Illustrative Strategies
- Text and Image in Visual Art
- Photography in Fiction
- Poetry and / of the Visual
- The Language of Film
- The Language of Comics
Table of Contents
List of Figures xi
Introduction 1
Part I: Verbal and Visual Literacy
From Intersemiotic to Intermedial Transposition: 淓x-changing Image into Word / Word into Image 13
LILIAN LOUVEL, Universit茅 de Poitiers, France
The Order of Knowing: Discourse on Aesthetics and the Language of Vision 33
JACOB BODWAY, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Ecoutez-Voir, by Elsa Triolet: Situating an 淚conotext 45
JEAN-PIERRE MONTIER, Universit茅 Rennes II, France
Part II: Iconotextuality and the Limits of Representation
淎 Story in Geometric Shapes: The Cross between Text and Image in 淭he Kiss by Angela Carter 63
PASCALE TOLLANCE, Universit茅 Lille III, France
Tableaux Vivants or Nature Morte? On Descriptions of Tableaux in Goethe檚 Elective Affinities 73
JOANA KONOVA, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
The Quest for the 淭hing Itself in A. S. Byatt檚 Still Life 87
EMILIE BOURDAROT, Universit茅 Paris VII, France
Part III: Ekphrastic Strategies
Walter Scott檚 Politics of Ekphrasis in Waverley 101
ANNE-LAURE FORTIN-TOURN脠S, Universit茅 Lille II, France
Written on Flesh: Peter Verhelst檚 Tonguecat and the Ekphrastic Tradition 111
KIM GORUS, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
淪ound Apples, Fair Flesh, and Sunlight: A. S. Byatt檚 Feminist Critique of Matisse檚 Depictions of Women 119
SARAH GARDAM, DREW UNIVERSITY, USA
淟ots of Little Lies for the Sake of One Big Truth: Ekphrasis and Memory in John Banville檚 The Sea and W. G. Sebald檚 The Emigrants 133
SEAN MCGLADE, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USA
Part IV: Graphic and Illustrative Strategies
淎s a Kind of Picture-Writing: Walter Crane, Drawing, and the Creation of a New Symbolic System 147
FRANCESCA TANCINI, Universit脿 degli studi di Siena, Italy
淣ot Waving: Miscommunication Between Stevie Smith檚 Poems and Drawings 163
KRISTEN MARANGONI, Bob Jones University, USA
Photo-Graphic Devices in Jonathan Safran Foer檚 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 177
ZO脣 SADOKIERSKI, The University of Technology, Australia
The Shape of Trauma: Two 9/11 Novels 199
ELIZABETH ROSEN, Lafayette College, USA
Part V: Text and Image in Visual Art
Body, Text, and Image in Tatana Kellner檚 Fifty Years of Silence 217
CHRISTA BAIADA, City University of New York, USA
Disrupting the Visual: The Dialogical Relation of Text and Image in Lorna Simpson檚 Photographs 229
CLAUDINE ARMAND, Universit茅 Nancy II, France
Parergon, Paratext, and Title in the Context of Visual Art 241
MIKKO PIRINEN, University of Jyv盲skyl盲, Finland
The Interartistic Phenomenon in the 淐atalonian Garden 251
VASSILENA KOLAROVA, Independent Scholar
Part VI: Photography in Fiction
Archeology of the Image: Photographic Traces and the Postmodern Archival Text 273
KAREN JACOBS, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
No Reality Here: Sensation Novels and Photography 297
ELIZABETH ANDERMAN, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Nonnarrative Structure and Photographic Images in W. G. Sebald檚 The Emigrants 313
J橪YN CHAPMAN, University of Denver, USA
Mute Images: The Photography of Melancholy in W. G. Sebald檚 The Rings of Saturn 327
ISABELLE GADOIN, Universit茅 de Poitiers, France
Part VII: Poetry and / of the Visual
淎 Charming Picture: Photographic Images of Holocaust Perpetrators 345
AIMEE POZORSKI, Central Connecticut State University, USA
The 淢agical Bishop of Dada: Hugo Ball and 淭he Inner Alchemy of the Word 355
TAHIA THADDEUS KAMP, Yale University, USA
Re-reading Blake檚 淟ondon 367
G. A. ROSSO, Southern Connecticut State University, USA
淪hut from View: Pre-Raphaelite Painting and the Invisible in Keats檚 Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil 381
FANNY GILLET, Universit茅 Toulouse II-Le Mirail, France
Part VIII: The Language of Film
Diegetic Frames and Photo-Cinematographic Seduction: Filming through Text in Harold Frederic檚 Illumination (1896) 395
ROBERT MACHADO, City University of New York, USA
From Remake to Remote: Tex Avery檚 Fairy Tales 419
PIERRE FLOQUET, Universit茅 de Bordeaux, France
The Fading Art of Video and Loss of Memory: Michael Haneke檚 Cach茅 and Amour 433
KAREN A. RITZENHOFF, Central Connecticut State University, USA
Part IX: The Language of Comics
Rendering the Familiar Unfamiliar: Art Spiegelman檚 Maus 455
NANCY PEDRI, 91亚色 of Newfoundland, Canada
All About 9/11, All But 9/11: The Shifting Epistemological Paradigm of Art Spiegelman檚 In the Shadow of No Towers 471
MART脥N URDIALES SHAW, University of Vigo, Spain
FONK! HONK! WHAM! OOF! Representation of Events in Carl Barks And in the Aesthetics of Comics in General 483
FREDERIK STJERNFELT AND SVEND 脴STERGAARD, Aarhus University, Denmark
The Silence of Images: Traces and Effacement in the French Graphic Novel Adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal檚 Too Loud a Solitude 509
PASCAL BATAILLARD, Universit茅 Lumi猫re-Lyon II, France
Contributors 529
Index 539