Relational designs in literature and the arts : : page and stage, canvas and screen / / edited by Rui Carvalho Homem.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 158
• TeilnehmendeR: Homem, Rui Manuel G. de Carvalho.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 158.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This collection focuses on texts that address the other arts – from painting to photography, from the stage to the screen, and from avant-garde experiments to mass culture. Despite their diversity of object and approach, the essays in Relational Designs coalesce around the argument that representations are defined by relations and dynamics, rather than intrinsic features. This rationale is supported by the discourses and methodologies favoured by the book’s contributors: their approaches offer a cross section of the intellectual and critical environment of our time. The book illustrates the critical possibilities that derive from the broad range of modes of inquiry - poststructuralist criticism, gender studies, postcolonial studies, new historicism – that the book’s four sections bring to bear on a wealth of intermedial practices. But Relational Designs compounds such critical emphases with the voice of the practitioner: the book is rounded off by an interview in which a contemporary novelist discusses her attraction to the other arts in terms that extend the book’s insights and bridge the gap between academic discourse and artistic practice.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction / Rui Carvalho Homem -- Introduction / Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- A Fellow of Infinite Jest / Remedios Perni -- Shaping the Spectacle: Faking, Making and Performing Reality through Shakespeare / Agnes Matuska -- The Framing of the Shrew: How the Lens Looks upon William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew / Sofia de Melo Araújo -- ‘The Artwork on Exhibit Runs About’: Brigitte Maria Mayer’s Filmic Adaptation of Heiner Müller’s Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome / Miguel Ramalhete Gomes -- Introduction / Jorge Bastos da Silva -- Ekphrasis Revisited: Crossing Artistic Boundaries / Carmen Lara-Rallo -- The Cinematograph in the Novel / Helena Lopes -- Formal Doubleness and Moral Duplicity: The Holocaust on the Page and Screen / Jorge Bastos da Silva -- Hitchcock Goes East: Postcolonial Gothic in Under Capricorn / Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia -- Bright Star: Reinventing Romantic Poetry for the Screen / Margarida Esteves Pereira -- Reaching Beyond the Commix/Ture: Art Spiegelman’s Maus as Relational Genre / Martín Urdiales Shaw -- Relational Genres, Gapped Narratives, and Metafictional Devices in Daniel Clowes’s David Boring / Daniel Nicolás Ferreiro -- The Verbal and the Visual in Advertising Language: A Cross-cultural Analysis / Ekaterina Eynullaeva and Elizabeth Woodward-Smith -- Introduction / Teresa Louro -- Radical Eye Rhymes: Visual Strategies in Modernist Poetry / Martin Heusser -- The Visual Artifact in the Poetry of Thomas McGreevy / Frank Hutton-Williams -- Humble Relics: Beckett and Van Gogh’s Old Boots / Julie Bates -- The Ekphrastic Evocation of Real-ity and the Modernist Dismantling of Pictorial Frames in Fiction / Tomás Monterrey -- Modernism and the Metropolis: Representing the City as Transitory Spectacle / M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera -- The Modern Work of Art and the Spatialisation of Time: Painting in the Novel / Angeliki Spiropoulou -- Virginia Woolf and the Art of Pain / Teresa Louro -- Into the Stride of the Poem / Aidan McCardle -- Introduction / Márcia Lemos -- ‘When you look through the eyes of another’: Mary and Lydia Cassatt in Art, Life, and Fiction / Teresa Casal -- ‘An agony of perceivedness’? Gazes and Disguises in the Works of James Joyce and Cindy Sherman / Márcia Lemos -- The Journey as Pictorial Metaphor in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 / Ana Rull Suárez -- ‘Death and the Young Man’: Saramago’s Death at Intervals / Maria Aline Ferreira -- Performances of Uncertainty in Spaces of Contingency: Aesthetic Confinement and Mechanisms of Silencing in Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, and Park Chan-wook / Eduardo Barros-Grela -- Painting with Words and Becoming Other People: Theatre and the Visual Arts in Molly Fox's Birthday and Authenticity – an interview with novelist Deirdre Madden / Teresa Casal -- Contributors -- Index.