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Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices
Catherine Gander (Ed.)
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Description for Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices
Hardback. Addresses a genuine gap in word and image studies. It offers fresh conceptual frameworks in which to think about the relationship between visual and verbal practices, with American works and artefacts positioned within the context of the American philosophical tradition. Editor(s): Gander, Catherine; Garland, Sarah. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AC; HBTB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 258 x 17. Weight in Grams: 656.
Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-edge research of renowned and emerging scholars in literature and the visual arts, with a foreword by Miles Orvell. The volume represents the first of its kind: an intervention in current interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of the written word and the visual image that moves beyond standard theoretical approaches to consider the written and visual artwork in embodied, cognitive and experiential terms. Tracing a strong lineage of pragmatism, romanticism, surrealism and dada in American intermedial works through the nineteenth ... Read more
Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-edge research of renowned and emerging scholars in literature and the visual arts, with a foreword by Miles Orvell. The volume represents the first of its kind: an intervention in current interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of the written word and the visual image that moves beyond standard theoretical approaches to consider the written and visual artwork in embodied, cognitive and experiential terms. Tracing a strong lineage of pragmatism, romanticism, surrealism and dada in American intermedial works through the nineteenth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784991500
SKU
V9781784991500
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Ref
99-15
About Catherine Gander (Ed.)
Catherine Gander is Lecturer in American Literature and Visual Culture at Queen's University Belfast Sarah Garland is Lecturer in American Literature and Visual Culture at the University of East Anglia -- .
Reviews for Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices
‘Mixed Messages offers a set of case studies which reappraise old American masters (the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams) to provoke new, enterprising understandings of artworks that press into service textual and visual features.’ Matthew Holman, Oxford Art Journal, Volume 40, Issue 2
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