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Reading Images and Seeing Words / Alan English and Rosalind Silvester.
Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive 2000-2006 Available online
Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive 2000-2006- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- English, Alan, 1973- author.
- Silvester, Rosalind, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Faux titre ; Volume 245.
- Faux Titre Series ; Volume 245
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, [2004]
- Summary:
- The simultaneously tautological and oxymoronic nature of word / image relations has become a subject of massive debate in the post-modern period. This is not only because of the increasing predominance of word / image messages within our modern media-saturated culture, but also because intellectual disciplines are becoming increasingly sensitized to the essentially hybrid nature of the way we construct meaning in the world. The essays in this volume offer an exemplary insight into both aspects of this phenomenon. Focussing on both traditional and modern media (theatre, fiction, poetry, graphic art, cinema), the essays of Reading Images and Seeing Words are deeply concerned to show how it is according to signifying codes (rhetoric, poetics, metaphor), that meaning and knowledge are produced. Not the least value of this collection is the insight it gives into the multiple models of word / image interaction and the rich ambiguity of the tautological and oxymoronic relations they embody.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004486706
- 9004486704
- OCLC:
- 1294380660
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