 | Text and Image in Modern European Culture Subjects: Art and literature; European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Text and Image in Modern European Culture is 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 it includes contributions appropriate for supplementary reading in senior undergraduate and graduate seminars. Natasha Grigorian is a Research Associate at the University of Vienna. She taught at the University of Cambridge as the Rutherford Research Fellow in Comparative Literature. In her research, Grigorian focuses on European Symbolism and its legacy. She is the author of numerous articles on fin de siècle literature and art, and her single-authored book European Symbolism: In Search of Myth (1860-1910) appeared in 2009.Thomas Baldwin is Senior Lecturer in French and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent. His publications include The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust (2005), The Flesh in the Text (co-edited with James Fowler and Shane Weller, 2007), and The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze (2011). |
