1st Edition

Painting Words Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text  addresses the importance of dialogue between art and literature, text and image in our image-saturated era. In a globalized world, isolation and compartmentalization hinder us back, whereas the Romantic idea of belonging urges us to look beyond and to build bridges. Bearing this Romantic spirit in mind, rather than... Read more

Contents

Introduction

I. Old Concepts in New Garments: Ut Pictura Poesis and Ekphrasis

  1. "Cervantes, Painter of Allegories of Folly, Love and Prudence"
  2. Fernando González Moreno 

  3. "The Presence of Ut Pictura Poesis in William Shakespeare’s and Miguel de Cervantes’s Works

Alejandro Jaquero Esparcia  

 II. The Sister Arts in the English Long-Nineteenth Century

3. "Embellishing the Poetic Text: Felicia Hemans and Female Aesthetic Education in the Nineteenth-Century British Annuals"

Beatriz González Moreno

4. "Emily Eden's Representations of India through Sketches and Letters: a Picturesque Female Travel Account of the Empire

Tagirem Gallego García

5. "William Wordsworth’s Ekphrastic Poetry: Wandering into the Realms of the Visual Arts

  Macarena Rodríguez Rodríguez

III. Intermedial Encounters in America

6. "The Pictorial Richness of Poe’s Oeuvre" 

Margarita Rigal Aragón and Fernando González Moreno

7. "The (Literary) Caricatures of Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction" 

José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas

8. "Word Painter: Visual Tropes of Enlightenment in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn"

Barbara Robins

IV. Where the Future lies: Transatlantic Interdisciplinarity

9. "Romanticism’s Pan-Atlantic Life: Blake, Shelley, and Byron in José Joaquín de Mora’s Meditaciones poéticas (1826)

Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge and Sara Medina

10. "‘Make visible’: Paul Klee’s Dictum and Wallace Stevens and José Ángel Valente’s Essays on Poetry"

Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan

Biography

Dr Beatriz González-Moreno is a Tenured Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain, where she teaches English Literature.

Dr Fernando González Moreno is a Tenured Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain, where he teaches Art History, and is Associate Dean at the Facultad de Humanidades in Albacete (UCLM).