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Author: Susan Harrow
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780708326596
ISBN 10: 0708326595
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 September 2013
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
How do writers think visually? How do readers respond visually to the written word? This exciting volume offers fresh insights within the rapidly evolving field of visual culture studies by pinpointing an important but as of yet underdeveloped area: the visuality of text. Drawing on a wide spectrum of practices, each affording a compelling instance of cross-fertilization between the written and the visual, the volume assembles wonderful close readings of important experimental works. Twelve international experts show how canonical creators have been inspired by thinking between the written word and a range of visual phenomena related to photography, textile, cinema, television, sculpture, painting, portraits, Isotype symbols, colors, lights, and black holes. The Art of the Text deserves a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in intermedial adventure. --Shirley Jordan, Queen Mary, University of London
""The Art of the Text is a rich and well-conceived collection of essays that, by virtue of the coherence of the vision underpinning the volume and the range of topics, genre, and media that it addresses, makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to word and image studies.""--Jean J. Duffy, University of Edinburgh ""How do writers think visually? How do readers respond visually to the written word? This exciting volume offers fresh insights within the rapidly evolving field of visual culture studies by pinpointing an important but as of yet underdeveloped area: the visuality of text. Drawing on a wide spectrum of practices, each affording a compelling instance of cross-fertilization between the written and the visual, the volume assembles wonderful close readings of important experimental works. Twelve international experts show how canonical creators have been inspired by thinking between the written word and a range of visual phenomena related to photography, textile, cinema, television, sculpture, painting, portraits, Isotype symbols, colors, lights, and black holes. The Art of the Text deserves a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in intermedial adventure.""--Shirley Jordan, Queen Mary, University of London
Author Information
Susan Harrow is Ashley Watkins Professor of French at the University of Bristol. Her research interests lie in modern poetry and narrative, and in the interrelation of literary modernism and visual culture. She is the author of books on modern French poetry and narrative.
