ABSTRACT
Poetics of the Iconotext makes available for the first time in English the theories of the respected French text/image specialist, Professor Liliane Louvel. A consolidation of the most significant theoretical materials of Louvel's two acclaimed books, L'Oeil du Texte: Texte et image dans la littérature anglophone and Texte/Image: Images à lire, textes à voir, this newly conceived work introduces English readers to the most current thinking in French text/image theory and visual studies. Focusing on the full spectrum of text/image relations, from medieval illuminated manuscripts to digital books, Louvel begins by introducing key terms and situating her work in the context of significant debates in text/image studies. Part II introduces Louvel's s typology of pictorial saturation through which she establishes a continuum along which to measure the effect of the most figurative to the most literal images upon writerly and readerly textual 'spaces.' Part III adopts a phenomenological approach towards the reading-viewing experience as expressed in conceptual categories that include the trace, focal range, synesthesia, and rhythm and speed. The result is a provocative interplay of the categorical and the subjective that invites readers to think at once more precisely and more inventively about texts, images, and the intersections between the two.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Infinite Dialogues
part |41 pages
Text/image: The Infinite Dialogue
chapter |18 pages
What Is an Image?
chapter |22 pages
The Infinite Dialogue Between Text and Image
part |81 pages
Modes of Insertion of the Pictorial: A Text/Image Typology
chapter |18 pages
Narrative Figures of the Pictorial Image
chapter |28 pages
From Text to Iconotext: Degrees of Pictorial Saturation
chapter |34 pages
Functions of the Image: A Pragmatics of the Iconotext
part |53 pages
Poetics of the Iconotext