The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary forms. The collections engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collections 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. Section 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. The third and fourth sections 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.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Aesthetics, Art, and Literature: Theoretical Concerns
1. The Concept of Literature
2. Cracking the Mirror: Autobiography and Self-Portraiture
3. Literature, Art, Craft
4. Beauty as Interaction
5. Figuration: The Cinematic in Literature
6. A New Science of Aesthetics: The Dual Brain Mechanics of Beauty, Wonder,
and the Sublime
7. Experiential Aesthetics and Varieties of the Sublime
8. The Unattainable in the Literature of Love
9. "Go and catch a falling star": Embodiment, Cognition, and Imagery
Part II: Ekphrastic Encounters
10. Ekphrastic Encounters and Contemporary Fiction
11. The Strange Case of Notional Ekphrasis
12. The Temporal Politics of Chaucerian Ekphrasis and the Beginnings of
Trecento Art History
13. Ekphrasis and the Modern Lyric
14. Negotiating the In-Between: Culture as "A Gift that Circulates and which
No One Owns" in Nick Joaquķns "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino: An
Elegy in Three Scenes"
15. Multivalent Muses in Mori Ogais Fictions
16. Making Magic: Comics and the Ekphrastic Art of the Almost There
17. Ekphrasis: Art and Texts on Art in the Ottoman World
18. "Wildly visual": Bouvier, Synge, and Flaherty on the Aran Islands
19. A Matisse Story: A. S. Byatts "A Lamia in the Cévennes" and the Religion
of Happiness
20. ArtLifePlanet: Ekphrasis Today
Part III: Intermedial Crossings: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
21. Vispo: A History of Visual Poetry
22. Entwining Ephemeral with the Eternal: Locus, Conca, and Margarita at
Conques
23. Representing Truth in Illuminated Arthurian Manuscripts: Specular
Encounters and the Meta Image
24. Dasharathas Oil Vat in the Mewar Ramayana
25. The Pictorial Parallel and the Early Histories of Eighteenth-Century
British Fiction
26. Laurence Sterne and Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture
27. Delacroix Reads Ivanhoe: "Painting Thoughts"
Part IV: Intermedial Crossings: From Modernism to the Present
28. Another Turn of the Screw: Illustration as Interpretation
29. Driving the Plot through Color
30. T. S. Eliot and the Gesamtkunstwerk or "Total Work of Art"
31. Dancing Feeling, or Kinesthetic Empathy in Contemporary Dance Fictions
32. Inscribed Sites: Verbal Art in Postmodern Built Environments
33. Detritus Art after WWII: Impoverishment, Collage, and the Inoperative
Tradition
34. Behind the Painting, A Pantoum: Literature and Art and Southeast Asia
35. Bridging Worlds: Infographics, Maps, and Photographs in Graphic Novels
36. Conceptual and Performative Art in Tom McCarthy, Michel Houellebecq and
Don DeLillo
37. Concealed Strokes: Fu-bi as Aesthetic Principle
Index
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.
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