Reading "Rembrandt" : beyond the word-image opposition : the Northrop Frye lectures in literary theory
Mieke Bal, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Other)
This book explores the potential for interdisciplinary methodology between literature and visual art. The works by Rembrandt gain in depth and interest, but an original perspective of the role of visuality in our culture emerges, which ultimately has consequences for our views of gender, the artist, and the act of reading.
xv, 494 s. : illustrations ; 26 cm.
9780521391542, 9780521466646, 0521391547, 0521466644
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1. Beyond the Word-Image Opposition; 2. Visual rhetoric: The semiotics of rape; 3. Visual storytelling: fathers and sons and the problems of myth; 4. Between focalisation and voyeurism: The representation of vision; 5. Recognition: reading icons, seeing stories; 6. Textuality and realism; 7. Self-reflection as a mode of reading; 8. Blindness or insight? Psychoanalysis and visual art; 9. Blindness as insight: The powers of horror; 10. Dead flesh, or the smell of painting.