Text and Image in Modern European Culture

Broadly comparative in their interdisciplinary approaches, 13 articles explore the interlinked place of texts and images in modern European culture. They are presented in sections that consider artistic exchanges across cultural traditions, exphrasis (description of visual works) in literature, design in fashion and architecture and its relation to different types of written text, and exchanges between literature and modern multimedia technologies. Also included is a thematic bibliography for the further study of the subject. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Natasha Grigorian is a research associate at the University of Vienna. She was previously the Rutherford Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of numerous articles on fin de siA‥cle literature and art, as well as European Symbolism: In Search of Myth (1860-1910) (2009).Thomas Baldwin teaches French at the University of Kent. He is the author of The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust (2005), The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze (2011), and co-editor, with James Fowler and Shane Weller, of The Flesh in the Text (2007).Margaret Rigaud-Drayton teaches French literature at Christ's College at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting, and the Universal Sign (2005), as well as related articles on Michaux and aspects of twentieth-century French and Belgian word and image texts.