The Routledge companion to literature and art / edited by Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, and Cheryl Julia Lee.

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Book
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English
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
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1 online resource (xxii, 510 pages) : illustrations (some color).

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary forms. The collection's engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed on April 8, 2024).
Contents
  • The concept of literature / Gordon Graham
  • Cracking the mirror: Autobiography and self-portraiture / James A. W. Heffernan
  • Literature, art, craft / Derek Attridge
  • Beauty as interaction / Wendy Steiner
  • Figuration: The cinematic in literature / Mieke Bal
  • A new science of aesthetics: The dual brain mechanics of beauty, wonder, and the sublime / Angus Fletcher
  • Experiential aesthetics and varieties of the sublime / Patrick Colm Hogan
  • The unattainable in the literature of love / Semir Zeki
  • "Go and catch a falling star": Embodiment, cognition, and imagery / G. Gabrielle Starr
  • Ekphrastic encounters and contemporary fiction / Neil Murphy
  • The strange case of notional ekphrasis / Liliane Louvel
  • The temporal politics of Chaucerian ekphrasis and the beginnings of Trecento art history / Andrew James Johnston
  • Ekphrasis and the modern lyric / Elizabeth K. Helsinger
  • Negotiating the in-between: Culture as "A Gift that Circulates and which No One Owns" in Nick Joaquín's "A Portrait of The Artist as Filipino: An Elegy in Three Scenes" / Cheryl Julia Lee
  • Multivalent muses in Mori Ogai's fictions / Anri Yasuda
  • Making magic: Comics and the ekphrastic art of the almost there / Shiamin Kwa
  • Ekphrasis: Art and texts on art in the Ottoman world / Jale N. Erzen
  • "Wildly Visual": Bouvier, Synge, and Flaherty on the Aran Islands / Elizabeth Geary Keohane
  • A Matisse story: A.S. Byatt's "A Lamia in the Cévennes" and the religion of happiness / Laurence Petit
  • Art - Life - Planet: Ekphrasis Today / Sofie Behluli and Gabriele Rippl
  • A history of visual poetry / Jane Partner
  • Entwining ephemeral with the eternal: Locus, Conca, and Margarita at Conques / Bissera V. Pentcheva
  • Representing truth in illuminated Arthurian manuscripts: Specular encounters and the meta image / Dominique DeLuca
  • Dasharatha's oil vat in the Mewar Ramayana / Subhashini Kaligotla
  • The pictorial parallel and the early histories of eighteenth-century fiction / Jakub Lipski
  • Laurence Sterne and eighteenth-century visual culture / Mary-Celine Newbould
  • Delacroix reads Ivanhoe: "painting thoughts" / Beth S. Wright
  • Another turn of the screw / Andrei Pop
  • Driving the plot through color / Mieke Bal
  • T. S. Eliot and the Gesamtkunstwerk or "Total Work of Art" / Aakanksha J. Virkar
  • Dancing feeling, or Kinesthetic empathy in contemporary dance fictions / Torsa Ghosal
  • Inscribed sites: Verbal art in postmodern built environments / Brian McAllister and Brian McHale
  • Detritus art after WWII: Impoverishment, collage, and the inoperative tradition / Erika Mihálycsa
  • Behind the painting, A Pantoum: Literature and art and Southeast Asia / Roger Nelson
  • Bridging worlds: Infographics, maps, and photographs in graphic novels / Nancy Pedri
  • Conceptual and performative art in Tom McCarthy, Michel Houellebecq and Don DeLillo / Joakim Wrethed
  • Concealed strokes: Fu-bi as aesthetic principle / W. Michelle Wang.
ISBN
  • 1-003-27335-1
  • 1-003-80734-8
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