Archaeologies of Visual Culture

Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from XVIIth to XXth Century Literature
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8471-0220-5
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 011, 284 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

Reihe: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cammarata, Valeria

Cometa, Michele

Coglitore, Roberta

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.

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.

Dr Valeria Cammarata is junior professor of Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Palermo. Dr Roberta Coglitore is junior professor of Theory of Literature at the University of Palermo. Prof Dr Michele Cometa teaches Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Palermo.