Editions Rodopi is pleased to announce the following new publication in
Comparative Literature:
Writing and Seeing
Essays on Word and Image
Edited by Rui Carvalho Homem and Maria de Fátima Lambert
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 403 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 95)
ISBN: 90-420-1698-1 Bound € 85,-/$ 106.-
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+95
The essays in this volume are informed by a variety of theoretical
assumptions and of critical methodologies, but they all share an interest
in the intersections of word and image in a variety of media. This
unifying rationale secures the present collection’s central position in
the current critical context, defined as it predominantly is by ways of
reading that are based on a relational nexus. The intertextual, the
intermedial, the intersemiotic are indeed foregrounded and combined in
these essays, conceptually as much as in the critical practices favoured
by the various contributions.
Studies of literature in its relation to pictorial genres enjoy a relative
prominence in the volume – but the range of media and of approaches
considered is broad enough to include photography, film, video,
television, comic strips, animated film, public art, material culture.
The backgrounds of contributors are likewise diverse – culturally,
academically, linguistically.
The volume combines contributions by prominent scholars and critics with
essays by younger scholars, from a variety of backgrounds. The resulting
plurality of perspective is indeed a source of new insights into the
relations between writing and seeing, and it contributes to making this
collection an exciting new contribution to word and image studies.
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