The Art of the Text
Visuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literary and Other Media
Distributed for University of Wales Press
The Art of the Text
Visuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literary and Other Media
256 pages | 5 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2013
University of Wales Press - Studies in Visual Culture
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory

Reviews
Table of Contents
Series editor’s preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
Susan Harrow
I Thinking the visual image
1 Jules Verne: The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing
Timothy Unwin
2 Affinities of Photography and Syntax in Proust’s À la recherche du temps purdu
Áine Larkin
3 Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux’s ‘Voyage en Grande Garabagne’
Nina Parish
4 The ‘trou noir’: Visualizations of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Modiano
Jenny Devine
II Intermedial migrations in the 1920s
5 Painting and Cinema in Aragon’s Anicet
Katherine Shingler
6 Isotopes and Elephants: Picture-Language as Visual Writing in the Work and Correspondence of Otto Neurath
Michelle Henning
7 Colette: An Eye for Textiles
Anne Freadman
8 Stars as Sculpture in the 1920s Fan-Magazine Interview
Michael Williams
III Visual negotiations and adaptations
9 Victor Hugo and Painting: the Exceptional Case of the Orientales
Karen Quandt
10 Visions and Revisions: Zola, Cardinal and L’Œuvre
Kate Griffiths
11 Donner à voir:Poetic Language and Visual Representation according to Paul Éluard
Peter Hawkins
12 ‘La lettre au cinéma n’est pas une excellente solution’: A Heteromedial Analysis of Chantel Akerman’s Proust Adaption
Jørgen Bruhn
Translation sources
Bibliography
Index
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