..., substance, and matter. This essay argues that the Livre deploys precisely such an ontology in dynamic and flexible ways. The varying visual programs in Livre manuscripts each configure the encyclopedia’s ontology differently, either making humans privileged observers of nature or positioning them as subject...

... and “visual glossing” of the poem. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2021 medieval manuscript illumination Dante Commedia instructions to illuminators Budapest University Library Codex Italicus 1 Thanks to Jonathan Alexander and others, we...

..., and Zola reveal a consonance of approach and sensibility in terms of color and abstractionism that traverses the boundaries between visual and textual media. The titles of Whistler's paintings tend to subordinate subject matter and privilege the artist's color work, evacuating the referent.3 Mallarme's...

... literary work. Through close textual analys­ is that troub­ les both the oppositional nature and the very categories of this debate, Mathias s exploration of vision underscores Sand s own res­ist­ance to binary logic through an engagement with the visual, from the visionary to the scientific observer...

... percevoir et ecrire?l T o the question posed above by Lucien Dallenbach, Claude Simon answers in the affirmative, suggesting that the writing process for him has as much to do with visual perception as with its absence, the "tatonnement[ ] a l'aveugle" of a blind Orion. In fact, Simon ends Orion aveugle...

... a visual component, whether or not we are conscious of how that visuality affects us. In this case, disorienting the reader and forcing her to consider the visible form and structure of traditional academic introductions makes their point exquisitely. The subsequent chapters, as they tell us, explore...

... d'eau (published in 1949). The study will interest readers seeking scholarship on Ponge's literary biography and his relationship to the visual arts, and it will introduce the work of Kermadec to many readers. In a meticulous presentation ofPonge's early biography and the circumstances...

... this experimentation with expressive registers, showing how the bestiary’s religious mode [REL] depends on intersecting forms of visual and linguistic enunciation. Philippe’s text is transmitted in three manuscripts: London, British Library, Cotton Nero A. V. (a twelfth-century English manuscript); Oxford, Merton 249...

... that presents itself in the same manner to everyone: "cette espece de dechet de l'experience, a peu pres identique pour chacun."3 Literature, for Proust's narrator, works through metaphor to mediate perception and memory, bridging time through mental images, as opposed to cinema's visual images. Proust's...

.... Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2011. Pp. 444. While a number of book-length scholarly works examine the influence of the graphic image, and of vision and visuality more generally, on the work of Claude Simon,l the relationship between the Nobel prize-winning author's corpus...

... functions paradoxically through a negation that is simultaneously caught up in a larger process of affirmation (940). Finally in the visual realm, in 1992, Suzanne Lewis showed that the manuscript illustrations "constitute visual ruptures on the page that disrupt the very process of reading, interjecting...

... photography and filmmaking within avantgarde visual cultures in France between 1928 and 1946. To this end, I take a first cue from efforts by narrators of Daeninckx's crime novels (neo-polars) to disclose the causal trajectory of what appears at first to be a minor incident or crime. A second cue builds...

... of "visual analogies" to the signs and symbols of fascism and Nazism. The Romanic Review Volume 97 Numbers 3-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 462 DANARENGA protagonists who relive the past event, thereby accentuating the impossible gap between narrative present and past. In History and Memory after...

... reproductions of art by Buzz Spector, a contemporary American artist who alters bookstearing pages and obscuring words-to force new perspectives on the visual nature of textual media. In covering so much terrain, the book's chapters develop a fertile dialogue. Especially nice is the inclusion of discussions...

... and lithographic reproduction, elements Gayle Zachmann places at the center of Frameworks for Mallarme: The Photo and the Graphic of an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic. While critics have long recognized the important role scientific theories and new visual technologies such as photography and cinema played...

... of prose poems, Une chambre conjecturale, evokes the writer's room and the impressions of the perceiving mind therein. The room is conceived with the visual approach of a painter depicting the interchanging impressions of light and colour as the eye moves within the confines of the room while taking...

...-words that sound alike but which are visually different. We are advised to distrust what we hear, though this caution soon extends to all sensory perception, especially vision. Borges, especially after his 1940 introduction to Adolfo Bioy Casares's novella La invencion de Morel, with its hilarious...

..., and resistance. One would have to emphasize the return of manuscript studies and a consideration of the material means of literary production, the emphasis upon the relation of the visual and the textual, the application of digital technology to teaching, and the sweeping changes just beginning thanks...

... to the other side of the divide, as it were. By writing a poetic commentary on her critical reception, Rosselli establishes herself not only as someone to be read, identified with, and/or gazed upon, but also as herself part of the gaze. Indeed, visual metaphors compose an integral part of the collection...

... Epoque women writers, where the possibilities it envisages can be even more daring. Chapter 2 analyzes the many photographs of women writers in the pages of Femina and La Vie heureuse. It shows how depictions of women at home at their writing tables aim to counter "troubling visual associations...