Archaeologies of Visual Culture: Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from 17th to 20th Century Literature

Cammarata, Valeria, Coglitore, Roberta, Cometa, Michele

ISBN 10: 3847102206 / ISBN 13: 9783847102205

Published by V&R unipress, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Archaeologies of Visual Culture: Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from 17th to 20th Century Literature
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847102206
• ISBN 13: 9783847102205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book analyzes the interplay of gazes, optical devices and images in literature. Following the developments of Visual Culture studies, literary theory has expanded its original field of investigation and addresses, beyond the traditional relationship between the verbal and the visual, the influence that gazes, optical devices and images can have on literary texts. This research tries to define the literary lives of the scopic regimes of modernity: the gazes of English early modern women's writing, the optical devices in German literature between Classicism and Romanticism, and the images of the mineral world in modern French aesthetics.

About the Author

Prof Dr Valeria Cammarata teaches Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Palermo. Prof Dr Michele Cometa teaches Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo. His research focuses on German cultural history and aesthetics, literary theory, and visual culture. Prof Dr Roberta Coglitore teaches Theory of Literature at the University of Palermo. Her research fields are the relationship between literature and visual culture and between literature and mineral world; fantastic literature, studies on the imaginary.