Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; Thinking the visual image; Jules Verne: The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing; Affinities of Photography and Syntax in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu; Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne'; The 'trou noir': Visualizations of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Modiano; Intermedial migrations in the 1920s; Painting and Cinema in Aragon's Anicet
Isotypes and Elephants: Picture-Language as Visual Writing in the Work and Correspondence of Otto NeurathColette: An Eye for Textiles; Stars as Sculpture in the 1920s Fan-Magazine Interview; Visual negotiations and adaptations; Victor Hugo and Painting: The Exceptional Case of the Orientales; Visions and Re-visions: Zola, Cardinal and L'OEuvre; Donner à voir: Poetic Language and Visual Representation according to Paul Éluard; La lettre au cinéma n'est pas une excellente solution':A Heteromedial Analysis of Chantal Akerman's Proust Adaptation; Translation sources; Bibliography; Index
In this volume of essays, specialists explore the relations between modern literary text and visual image across a range of media - from novel, poetry and film to painting, fabric and print culture
