ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the application of the diverse observations while studying texts and also variously warranted in critical discourse. Pictorial genres and subjects have been widely used by literary criticism in its analyses and are believed to have inspired equivalent works of poetry, theatre, and fiction. The chapter deals with the literary borrowings from art history and then on the more formal ones, those borrowed from pictorial practice and techniques. The analogies between painting and poetry, the artistic exchange, the correspondence of style and the common forms of literature and the plastic arts as image, were, naturally, an important part of Mario Praz's arsenal. The chapter shows how art history, together with the particular modelising function of architecture in the text, may define the reading of a novel. Mary Ann Caws draws between the perturbing effect produced by architectural precision and the reading effect will converge, in a way, with the reading of the facade of Wuthering Heights.
