The Art of the Text

Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media

Edited by Susan R Harrow

Publication date:

30 September 2013

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780708326596

The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes through which writers think and readers respond visually and, in essays by researchers in literature, screen and visual studies, the volume explores the visuality of the literary and non-literary text, with a sustained focus on French material of the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Visuality is appraised here not as a state, but as a set of processes of adaptation, resistance, negotiation, and transformation. By reading visually, the contributors here reactivate the visual-textual relations of canonical texts - from Romanticism to Naturalism, Surrealism to high Modernism; from film to fan literature, television to picture language.