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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In recent years the study of the relation between literature and the visual arts has become a major intellectual industry. Much of this industry is comparative. Empirically minded critics compare specific texts with specific works of visual art; theoretically oriented critics aim to show that we can read a work of litera- ture spatially as a we view a painting or decode a painting semiotically as if it were a text a web of verbal signs. Critics who do comparative work in one of these senses typically aim to breach the theoretical barriers that Lessing erected between poetry and the visual arts: between poetry as an art of conventional signs marching along in time and painting as an art of would-be “natural” signs deployed in space. But I suspect we are nearing the end of what we can learn about the sister arts by simply comparing them by observing similarities that help us to read-more accurately to construct-the signature of a “period” or to formulate a master theory of signification. In my judgment the most prom- ising line of inquiry in the field of sister arts studies is the one drawn by W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology which treats the relation between literature and the visual arts as essentially paragonal a struggle for dominance between the image and the word.