Description
Book SynopsisThe explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such.
Pictures into Words explores how this proliferation of graphic images has profoundly affected narrative writing in France.
Trade Review"A welcome addition to studies by Jean Duffy, Warren Motte and Jérôme Game, among many others, Blatt's
Pictures into Words, written with erudition and many stylistic sparks (alliterations are vocal on the page), sets us off, for better than worse, in not so well charted directions, to think again about our basic need and common passion for literature."—Marie-Claire Barnet,
Modern and Contemporary France"Ari J. Blatt has succeeded in writing a book that should give confidence to all those who believe in the capacities of French literature to say what is really at stake in today's world."—Jan Baetens,
Image and Narrative "[
Pictures into Words is] a wide-ranging and masterful discussion of the complex interactions between contemporary French fiction and visual culture."—Katherine Shingler,
French Studies"Illuminating. . . .
Pictures into Words is an informed and challenging study, and also a learned one. The monograph has an impressive bibliography, and makes salient use of contemporary theory."—William Cloonan,
H-France Review Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Telling Pictures
1. Puzzling Pictures 2. Faking It (Phony Pictures)
3.
Tableau vivant
4. Remake
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
