ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with the acknowledgement that if one wants to deal with the relationship between image and language in fairness, one has to take into account the age-long submission of the former to the latter. It describes what kind of language "poetry" selected to engage with painting and with the image at large. The book assesses the singular relationship between word and image, to observe the modalities of what one calls "intersemiotic transposition", and replace the term with the more appropriate "intermedial transposition". It explains how an image suggested by a text manifests itself and affects the reader's body, their mind's eye, or their inner screen. The book offers a critical method resting on close text analysis, so as to investigate to what extent the pictorial as a tool enables people to analyse the literary text.
