Archaeologies of Visual Culture

Gazes, Optical Devices and Images from 17th to 20th Century Literature

Valeria Cammarata, Michele Cometa, Roberta Coglitore

• Verlag: V&R Unipress
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9783847002208
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Biowissenschaften
• Thema: Wissenschaft Allgemein

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• List of figures
• Michele Cometa: Introduction. Scopic Regimes and Literature
• Part I: Gazes
• Valeria Cammarata: Through Different Eyes. Feminine Science and Literature in Early Modern Culture
• Part II: Optical devices
• Michele Cometa: Framing in Crisis. Literature and Optical Devices in the Age of Hoffmann
• Part III: Images
• Roberta Coglitore: Pictures of Nature. Mineral Imagery in Modern French Aesthetics