The Routledge companion to literature and art / edited by Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, and Cheryl Julia Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Neil, editor.

Wang, W. Michelle, editor.

Lee, Cheryl Julia, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to literature series.

Routledge Literature Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and literature.

Art in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 510 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary forms. The collection's engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts.

Contents:

The concept of literature / Gordon Graham

Cracking the mirror: Autobiography and self-portraiture / James A. W. Heffernan

Literature, art, craft / Derek Attridge

Beauty as interaction / Wendy Steiner

Figuration: The cinematic in literature / Mieke Bal

A new science of aesthetics: The dual brain mechanics of beauty, wonder, and the sublime / Angus Fletcher

Experiential aesthetics and varieties of the sublime / Patrick Colm Hogan

The unattainable in the literature of love / Semir Zeki

"Go and catch a falling star": Embodiment, cognition, and imagery / G. Gabrielle Starr

Ekphrastic encounters and contemporary fiction / Neil Murphy

The strange case of notional ekphrasis / Liliane Louvel

The temporal politics of Chaucerian ekphrasis and the beginnings of Trecento art history / Andrew James Johnston

Ekphrasis and the modern lyric / Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Negotiating the in-between: Culture as "A Gift that Circulates and which No One Owns" in Nick Joaquín's "A Portrait of The Artist as Filipino: An Elegy in Three Scenes" / Cheryl Julia Lee

Multivalent muses in Mori Ogai's fictions / Anri Yasuda

Making magic: Comics and the ekphrastic art of the almost there / Shiamin Kwa

Ekphrasis: Art and texts on art in the Ottoman world / Jale N. Erzen

"Wildly Visual": Bouvier, Synge, and Flaherty on the Aran Islands / Elizabeth Geary Keohane

A Matisse story: A.S. Byatt's "A Lamia in the Cévennes" and the religion of happiness / Laurence Petit

Art - Life - Planet: Ekphrasis Today / Sofie Behluli and Gabriele Rippl

A history of visual poetry / Jane Partner

Entwining ephemeral with the eternal: Locus, Conca, and Margarita at Conques / Bissera V. Pentcheva

Representing truth in illuminated Arthurian manuscripts: Specular encounters and the meta image / Dominique DeLuca

Dasharatha's oil vat in the Mewar Ramayana / Subhashini Kaligotla

The pictorial parallel and the early histories of eighteenth-century fiction / Jakub Lipski

Laurence Sterne and eighteenth-century visual culture / Mary-Celine Newbould

Delacroix reads Ivanhoe: "painting thoughts" / Beth S. Wright

Another turn of the screw / Andrei Pop

Driving the plot through color / Mieke Bal

T. S. Eliot and the Gesamtkunstwerk or "Total Work of Art" / Aakanksha J. Virkar

Dancing feeling, or Kinesthetic empathy in contemporary dance fictions / Torsa Ghosal

Inscribed sites: Verbal art in postmodern built environments / Brian McAllister and Brian McHale

Detritus art after WWII: Impoverishment, collage, and the inoperative tradition / Erika Mihálycsa

Behind the painting, A Pantoum: Literature and art and Southeast Asia / Roger Nelson

Bridging worlds: Infographics, maps, and photographs in graphic novels / Nancy Pedri

Conceptual and performative art in Tom McCarthy, Michel Houellebecq and Don DeLillo / Joakim Wrethed

Concealed strokes: Fu-bi as aesthetic principle / W. Michelle Wang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed on April 8, 2024).

ISBN:

1-003-27335-1

1-003-80734-8

9781003273356

OCLC:

1410114717