Text and Image in Modern European Culture

by Grigorian, Natasha; Baldwin, Thomas; Rigaud-Drayton, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781557536280
• ISBN10: 1557536287
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-15
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

Text and Image in Modern European Cultureis a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies (avant-garde experiments, digital poetry). The discussion encompasses pivotal fin de siècle, modernist, and postmodernist works and movements in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Spain. A selected bibliography of work published in the field is also included. The volume will appeal to scholars of comparative literature, art history, and visual studies, and includes contributions appropriate for supplementary reading in senior undergraduate and graduate seminars. Contents: "Perspectival Coordinates" (Robert Lethbridge). Part 1: Cross-Cultural Networks: "The Myth of Psyche in Gabriele D'Annunzio and Edward Burne-Jones" (Giuliana Pieri); "Gustave Moreau, Valery Bryusov, and the Allure of the Sirens" (Natasha Grigorian); "Henry Miller and Brassaï's Marvellous Chair" (Caroline Blinder). Part II: Ekphrasis and Beyond: "The Image-World of Rilke's 'Lady Before the Mirror'" (William Waters); "Proust's Convolutions" (Thomas Baldwin); "Photographic Images and Photographic Practice in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu" (Áine Larkin). Part III: Text and Design: "Text and Image in the French Fashion Periodical of the Second Empire" (Kate Nelson Best); "On Architectural Variations of Spatial Utopia in Scheerbart's Rakkóx der Billionär" (Christine Angela Knoop). Part IV: Hybrid Texts: "Self-Portrayal between Word and Image in Apollinaire's 'Lettre-Océan'" (Margaret Rigaud-Drayton); "Text-Image Relations in French and Spanish Surrealist Literary Reviews from the 1920s and 1930s" (Alicia Kent); "How to Read a Poetic Photo-Text" (Joanna Madloch). Part V: Multimedia Encounters: "Constructivist and Futurist Multimedia Experiments in Russian Poetry" (Svetlana Nikitina); "Science and Symptom from Mallarmé to the Digital Poet" (Emile de Rosnay).