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Gianni Vattimo

Santiago Zabala

Alberto Martinengo

Giuseppe Iannantuono

Being and Its Surroundings

Esther Raventós-Pons

Literary Texts & the Arts's sixteen essays explore numerous aspects of both the theoretical and applied relationships between textuality in the form of novels, plays, and poems and visuality in the form of the photographic, artistic, or cinematic image. Topics range from the linguistic and artistic attempts to express the inexpressible or the transcendent in notions of the sublime, where the essence of phenomena eludes the communicative and epistemological capacity of words and images, to postmodern representations of time and cinematic adaptations of literary texts. The photographic image is also examined as autonomous language that stands in opposition to the verbal and the written text and as a complementary mode that shares some communicative structures and modalities with the word while not being reducible to it. The thread that runs through all of the essays is the assertion of the «constructive» or power of the word (spoken, recited, written) and the image (representational, mimetic, nonrepresentational) to create meanings as well as the implication that, somehow, that capacity is partial because it is limited by the inherent nature of the means of expression.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Literary Texts & the Arts

Dacia Maraini

Biancamaria Frabotta

Addressing the issue of gender in poetic discourse, this anthology includes the work of various 20th-century Italian women poets. With interviews on the nature of poetry and the discussion of selected poems, the work attempts to answer the question of whether or not there can be an aesthetic distinction between male-and female-created poetry.

Italian Women Poets

Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

Ernesto Virgulti

Beauty and the Abject

Images and Imagery: Frames, Borders, Limits - Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of essays by scholars from around the world exploring the complex interactions between literary texts and visual images (in the form of paintings, photographs, and films). Giving coherence to these wide-ranging contributions is the theme of frames, borders, and limits. The eighteen authors, each from a particular point of view, examine works that reach beyond the limits, both cognitive and expressive, of any single mode of expression.

Frames, Borders, Limits : Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Images and Imagery

The essays in Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l'oeil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives investigate the subject of deception and falsehood from various perspectives. Classical, modernist and postmodern texts and art forms, both visual and performative, are examined in frames of reference that range from aesthetics and literary theory to cognitive science. In some cases, deception and falsehood are seen to have positive connotations, and, in other cases, their negative dimensions are highlighted. The complexity of these terms and their relationship with truth and truthfulness are put on display by the contributors to this volume.

Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l'oeil

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