Cammarata / Cometa / Coglitore Archaeologies of Visual Culture

Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from 17th to 20th Century Literature
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0220-8
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Deutsch, Band 11, 284 Seiten

Reihe: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities / ACUME 2

This book analyzes different historical and cultural staging of gazes, otpical devices and images in the context of a discipline that goes by the name of visual culture. Here literary studies have contaminated and thus expanded their original field of investigation not only addressing, as in the past, the question of the relationship between verbal and visual, but also giving substance to this interweaving with an in-depth questioning about the meaning gazes, images and vision devices or, more generally, the visual media can have on literature. This research tries to define the ways in which changing cultures have addressed these questions; in particular in which ways English early modern culture, German nineteenth century fantastic, and French twentieth century natural ékphrasis have done it.

Prof Dr Valeria Cammarata teaches Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Palermo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cammarata, Valeria

Cometa, Michele

Coglitore, Roberta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;8
5;List of figures;8
6;Michele Cometa: Introduction. Scopic Regimes and Literature;12
7;Part I: Gazes;18
8;Valeria Cammarata: Through Different Eyes. Feminine Science and Literature in Early Modern Culture;20
8.1;Gaze and Vision;20
8.2;Subjects;24
8.3;Beholders;32
8.4;Displaying Objects;57
8.5;Facts and Fictions;82
8.6;Under the mask;110
9;Part II: Optical devices;120
10;Michele Cometa: Framing in Crisis. Literature and Optical Devices in the Age of Hoffmann;122
10.1;Optical devices and literature;122
10.2;From Magia Naturalis to the society of the spectacle;139
10.3;Seeing the Invisible;144
10.4;The Hoffmann-Device;148
10.5;Histories of Perception;158
10.6;Visual Anthropology;163
10.7;Intermediality;172
10.8;Schaulust;186
10.9;Media Archaeology;190
10.10;Vision and Reality;200
11;Part III: Images;208
12;Roberta Coglitore: Pictures of Nature. Mineral Imagery in Modern French Aesthetics;210
12.1;Stone Images;210
12.2;Natural and Artistic Beauty;213
12.3;Natural Masterpieces;217
12.4;Descriptions;220
12.5;Material Imagination;223
12.6;Poetics of the Gaze;228
12.7;Visionary Mineralogy;230
12.8;Pancalism;237
12.9;Drawings by Matter;240
12.10;Immemoriality;248

Über Autor(innen)

Cometa, Michele
Prof Dr Michele Cometa teaches Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo. His research focuses on German cultural history and aesthetics, literary theory, and visual culture.

Coglitore, Roberta
Prof Dr Roberta Coglitore teaches Theory of Literature at the University of Palermo. Her research fields are the relationship between literature and visual culture and between literature and mineral world; fantastic literature, studies on the imaginary.

Cammarata, Valeria
Prof Dr Valeria Cammarata teaches Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Palermo.