On Verbal / Visual Representation: Word & Image Interactions IV: 50 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 50)

ISBN 10: 9042018372 / ISBN 13: 9789042018372

Published by Editions Rodopi B.V., 2005

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Seller Inventory # wbs4671962047

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Verbal / Visual Representation: Word & Image Interactions IV: 50 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 50)
• Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042018372
• ISBN 13: 9789042018372
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 440 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The twenty-one essays collected in this volume offer a broad range of critical views on the intricate interdependence between verbal and visual representation.
Drawing on recent research, scholars from Europe, America and Asia approach the topic from a host of different angles, exploring topics such as popular visual cultures in Japan, devotional graffiti in a Piedmontese chapel, textual trompe-l’oeil in Jaques Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind or the relationship between the landscape paintings of Albert Bierstadt and the representation of landscape in the texts of James Fenimore Cooper.
The International Association of Word and Image Studies was founded nearly twenty years ago – 1987 – and is based in Amsterdam. One of the aims of the association is to be a forum for both theoretical debate and innovative research in different disciplines. Over the years, the IAWIS triennial conferences and the IAWIS publications have established themselves as internationally acknowledged sites where literary critics, art historians, architects, art and design specialists, semioticians, artists, psychologists and art critics can meet and engage in a sustained dialogue.

Review

"...convincing collection which shows how exciting a research field Word and Image Studies is." in: Anglia, Band 126 (2008) Heft 1