1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts.
Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography, media installations, and television.
Throughout this dynamic collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies, philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture.
The Introduction and Chapters 10, 14 and 37 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, and Cheryl Julia Lee
PART I
Aesthetics, Art, and Literature: Theoretical Concerns
1 The Concept of Literature
Gordon Graham
2 Cracking the Mirror: Autobiography and Self-Portraiture
James A. W. Heffernan
3 Literature, Art, Craft
Derek Attridge
4 Beauty as Interaction
Wendy Steiner
5 Figuration: The Cinematic in Literature
Mieke Bal
6 A New Science of Aesthetics: The Dual Brain Mechanics of Beauty, Wonder, and the Sublime
Angus Fletcher
7 Experiential Aesthetics and Varieties of the Sublime
Patrick Colm Hogan
8 The Unattainable in the Literature of Love
Semir Zeki
9 "Go and catch a falling star": Embodiment, Cognition, and Imagery
G. Gabrielle Starr
PART II
Ekphrastic Encounters
10 Ekphrastic Encounters and Contemporary Fiction
Neil Murphy
11 The Strange Case of Notional Ekphrasis
Liliane Louvel
12 The Temporal Politics of Chaucerian Ekphrasis and the Beginnings of Trecento Art History
Andrew James Johnston
13 Ekphrasis and the Modern Lyric
Elizabeth K. Helsinger
14 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
15 Multivalent Muses in Mori Ogai’s Fictions
Anri Yasuda
16 Making Magic: Comics and the Ekphrastic Art of the Almost There
Shiamin Kwa
17 Ekphrasis: Art and Texts on Art in the Ottoman World
Jale N. Erzen
18 "Wildly visual": Bouvier, Synge, and Flaherty on the Aran Islands
Elizabeth Geary Keohane
19 A Matisse Story: A. S. Byatt’s "A Lamia in the Cévennes" and the Religion of Happiness
Laurence Petit
20 Art–Life–Planet: Ekphrasis Today
Sofie Behluli and Gabriele Rippl
PART III
Intermedial Crossings: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
21 Vispo: A History of Visual Poetry
Jane Partner
22 Entwining Ephemeral with the Eternal: Locus, Conca, and Margarita at Conques
Bissera V. Pentcheva
23 Representing Truth in Illuminated Arthurian Manuscripts: Specular Encounters and the Meta Image
Dominique DeLuca
24 Dasharatha’s Oil Vat in the Mewar Ramayana
Subhashini Kaligotla
25 The Pictorial Parallel and the Early Histories of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Jakub Lipski
26 Laurence Sterne and Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture
M-C Newbould
27 Delacroix Reads Ivanhoe: "Painting Thoughts"
Beth S. Wright
PART IV
Intermedial Crossings: From Modernism to the Present
28 Another Turn of the Screw: Illustration as Interpretation
Andrei Pop
29 Driving the Plot through Color
Mieke Bal
30 T. S. Eliot and the Gesamtkunstwerk or "Total Work of Art"
Aakanksha J. Virkar
31 Dancing Feeling, or Kinesthetic Empathy in Contemporary Dance Fictions
Torsa Ghosal
32 Inscribed Sites: Verbal Art in Postmodern Built Environments
Brian McAllister and Brian McHale
33 Detritus Art after WWII: Impoverishment, Collage, and the Inoperative Tradition
Erika Mihálycsa
34 Behind the Painting, A Pantoum: Literature and Art and Southeast Asia
Roger Nelson
35 Bridging Worlds: Infographics, Maps, and Photographs in Graphic Novels
Nancy Pedri
36 Conceptual and Performative Art in Tom McCarthy, Michel Houellebecq and Don DeLillo
Joakim Wrethed
37 Concealed Strokes: Fu-bi as Aesthetic Principle
W. Michelle Wang
Biography
Neil Murphy is Professor of English in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His publications include John Banville (2018).
W. Michelle Wang is Associate Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the author of Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (2020).
Cheryl Julia Lee is Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her poetry collection, We Were Always Eating Expired Things (2014), was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize.
