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Book SynopsisIn this volume of essays, specialists explore the relations between modern literary text and visual image across a range of media - from novel, poetry and film to painting, fabric and print culture.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface 1. Introduction Susan Harrow Thinking the Visual Image 2. Jules Verne: The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing Timothy Unwin 3. Affinities of Photography and Syntax in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu Aine Larkin 4. Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne' Nina Parish 5. Into the 'trou noir': Visualizations of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Modiano Jenny Devine Intermedial Migrations in the 1920s 6. Painting and Cinema in Aragon's Anicet Katherine Shingler 7. Isotypes and Elephants: Picture Language as Visual Writing in Otto Neurath Michelle Henning 8. Colette : An Eye for Textiles Anne Freadman 9. Stars as Sculpture in the 1920s Fan-Magazine Interview Michael Williams Visual Negotiations and Adaptations 10. Victor Hugo and Painting: The Exceptional Case of the Orientales Karen Quandt 11. Visions and Re-visions: Zola, Cardinal and L'Aiuvre Kate Griffiths 12. Donner a voir: Poetic Language and Visual Representation according to Paul Eluard Peter Hawkins 13. A Heteromedial Analysis of Chantal Akerman's Proust Adaptation Jorgen Bruhn
