The art of the text : visuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and other media / edited by Susan Harrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrow, Susan, editor.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Series:

Studies in visual culture (Cardiff, Wales)

Studies in visual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual literature.

Visual perception in literature.

Art in literature.

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Visuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and other media

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Summary:

The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies with 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 explore the visuality of the literary and non-literary text, with a sustained focus on French material of the late 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 reactivate the visual-textual relations of canonical texts-from film to fan literature, television to picture language. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Thinking the visual image

1 Jules Verne: The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing / Timothy Unwin Unwin, Timothy 17

2 Affinities of Photography and Syntax in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu / Áine Larkin Larkin, Áine 31

3 Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne' / Nina Parish Parish, Nina 47

4 The 'trou noir': Visualizations of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Modiano / Jenny Devine Devine, Jenny 63

II Intermedial migrations in the 1920s

5 Painting and Cinema in Aragon's Anicet / Katherine Shingler Shingler, Katherine 81

6 Isotypes and Elephants: Picture-Language as Visual Writing in the Work and Correspondence of Otto Neurath / Michelle Henning Henning, Michelle 95

7 Colette: An Eye for Textiles / Anne Freadman Freadman, Anne 115

8 Stars as Sculpture in the 1920s Fan-Magazine Interview / Michael Williams Williams, Michael 131

III Visual negotiations and adaptations

9 Victor Hugo and Painting: The Exceptional Case of the Orientates / Karen Quandt Quandt, Karen 151

10 Visions and Re-visions: Zola, Cardinal and L'CEuvre / Kate Griffiths Griffiths, Kate 171

11 Donner à voir. Poetic Language and Visual Representation according to Paul Éluard / Peter Hawkins Hawkins, Peter 187

12 'La lettre au cinéma n'est pas une excellente solution': A Heteromedial Analysis of Chantal Akerman's Proust Adaptation / Jørgen Bruhn Bruhn, Jørgen 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-232) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

0708326595

9780708326596

OCLC:

832605628

Publisher Number:

99955225630