Text into Image: Image into Text is a truly interdisciplinary publication. Whilst all of the contributions focus upon the central problem of the relationship between literature and the visual arts - one which has lost nothing of its fascination as the debate has expanded in numerous forms from antiquity into the realm of postmodern theory - they come from contributors working in a large number of different areas. Represented are academics from the worlds of German Studies, French Studies, English Studies, Art History and Film Studies. Given their backgrounds each of the contributors can offer a different perspective upon the core issue of translation between media, but perhaps most valuable is the com-bination of perspectives made possible by the arrangement of the volume into sections dealing with aspects of the image/text debate. In the same way that the volume gains by ranging across traditional disciplinary boundaries so it also gains from dealing with a wide range of historical material from - to take only one possible route - Baroque icono-graphy through Romantic imagery to Expressionist agony.
Contents: Jeffrey MORRISON/Florian KROBB: Introduction. FROM IMAGE TO TEXT/FROM TEXT TO IMAGE. Michael WORTON: Celebration or Effacement? Imag(in)ing the Body of Masculinity. Brian COSGROVE: Murray Krieger: Ekphrasis as Spatial Form, Ekphrasis as Mimesis. Kirsty FERGUSSON: Diderot in the Logosphere. Jeffrey MORRISON: Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Body in Question. David SCOTT: Text as Image in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Images of Watteau into Texts by Banville and Verlaine. Florian KROBB: Marginal Daubings: On Wilhelm Raabe's Graphic Oeuvre. Patrick BRIDGWATER: Some Early Twentieth-Century Bildgedichte. Francesca COUNIHAN: Marguerite Yourcenar rediscovers Rembrandt. Anca CRISTOFOVICI: Whistlejacket - the Embedded Image: George Stubbs remembered by John Hawkes. Andrea MCTIGUE: 'Resisting, by embracing, nothingness': Reflections of Caravaggio (1573-1610) and his Art in Contemporary Literature. Fritz WEFELMEYER: Raphaels Sistine Madonna: An Icon of the German Imagination from Herder to Heidegger. Chris SHORT: An Examination of the Relations of the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to the Theme of the Apocalypse in Wassily Kandinsky's Texts and Images. Eoin BOURKE: Horses, Eyes and Putrefaction: Three Obsessions in Alfred Kubin's Early Graphic Art and Prose. Klaus KANZOG: 'Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation ...': The Legacy of E.T.A. Hoffmann in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. IMAGES IN TEXT/TEXTS IN IMAGES. Tadhg Ó DÚSHLÁINE: The Case for the Irish Baroque: Visual Traditions in 17th-Century Gaelic Literature. Hans J. HAHN: From Image to Vision, from Artist to Prophet: Observations on the Perception of Art and Religion in the Work of Eichendorff. Dominik MÜLLER: Self-portraits of the Poet as a Painter: Narratives on Artists and the Bounds between the Arts (Hoffmann - Balzac - Stifter). Helene BONNLANDER: The Fictional Tourist: The Limits of the Picturesque in the Travel Writings of Prince Hermann Pückler-Muskau. Sabine STRÜMPER-KROBB: The Image of Colours: The Presentation of Visual Impressions in the Prose of Jens Peter Jacobsen. Anne FUCHS: A Suitcase, Passport and a Photograph: The Iconography of Abjection in Kafka's Der Verschollene. Eric ROBERTSON: Creation and (De)Constructi-on in the Work of Hans Jean Arp. Martina E. LINNEMANN: Concrete Poetry - A Post-War Experiment in Visual Poetry. Helen HUGHES: The Hand as Text and Image: On Valie Export's Körpersplitter. Arnd WITTE: The Fall and Rise of the Poet in the Modern City. Hermann RASCHE: Text and Images in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Schnitte. Pascale Mc GARRY: The Metaphor of Painting in Toussaint's Novel L'Appareil Photo. Martin Ignatius GAUGHAN: Textual Titles: Resisting Translation. TEXT AND MOVING IMAGE. Horst CLAUS: Whose Film Is It? Alexander Korda's Adaptation of Carl Zuckmayer's Film Script Rembrandt. Anthony S. COULSON: Veit Harlan's Immensee: A Study in the Perversion of a Literary Classic. Ingo CORNILS: Problems of Visualisation: The Image of the Unknown in German Science Fiction. Andrea RINKE: Lotte in Weimar and Unser kurzes Leben: Two Cinematic Adaptations of Literature in the Ex-GDR. Paul O'DOHERTY: Fiddler in the Ghetto: The Film of Jurek Becker's Novel Jakob der Lügner. Ursula BÖSER: 'Das Kino aber stört das Schauen': Straub/Huillet's Klassenverhältnisse and Franz Kafka's Der Verschollene. Daniela BERGHAHN: '... womit sonst kann man heute erzählen als mit Bildern?' Images and Stories in Wim Wenders' Der Himmel über Berlin and In weiter Ferne, so nah! Rob BURNS: From Bondage to Bonding: Saliha Scheinhardt's Frauen, die sterben, ohne daß sie gelebt hätten and Tevfik Baser's Abschied vom falschen Paradies. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors.
Contents: Jeffrey MORRISON/Florian KROBB: Introduction. FROM IMAGE TO TEXT/FROM TEXT TO IMAGE. Michael WORTON: Celebration or Effacement? Imag(in)ing the Body of Masculinity. Brian COSGROVE: Murray Krieger: Ekphrasis as Spatial Form, Ekphrasis as Mimesis. Kirsty FERGUSSON: Diderot in the Logosphere. Jeffrey MORRISON: Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Body in Question. David SCOTT: Text as Image in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Images of Watteau into Texts by Banville and Verlaine. Florian KROBB: Marginal Daubings: On Wilhelm Raabe's Graphic Oeuvre. Patrick BRIDGWATER: Some Early Twentieth-Century Bildgedichte. Francesca COUNIHAN: Marguerite Yourcenar rediscovers Rembrandt. Anca CRISTOFOVICI: Whistlejacket - the Embedded Image: George Stubbs remembered by John Hawkes. Andrea MCTIGUE: 'Resisting, by embracing, nothingness': Reflections of Caravaggio (1573-1610) and his Art in Contemporary Literature. Fritz WEFELMEYER: Raphaels Sistine Madonna: An Icon of the German Imagination from Herder to Heidegger. Chris SHORT: An Examination of the Relations of the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to the Theme of the Apocalypse in Wassily Kandinsky's Texts and Images. Eoin BOURKE: Horses, Eyes and Putrefaction: Three Obsessions in Alfred Kubin's Early Graphic Art and Prose. Klaus KANZOG: 'Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation ...': The Legacy of E.T.A. Hoffmann in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. IMAGES IN TEXT/TEXTS IN IMAGES. Tadhg Ó DÚSHLÁINE: The Case for the Irish Baroque: Visual Traditions in 17th-Century Gaelic Literature. Hans J. HAHN: From Image to Vision, from Artist to Prophet: Observations on the Perception of Art and Religion in the Work of Eichendorff. Dominik MÜLLER: Self-portraits of the Poet as a Painter: Narratives on Artists and the Bounds between the Arts (Hoffmann - Balzac - Stifter). Helene BONNLANDER: The Fictional Tourist: The Limits of the Picturesque in the Travel Writings of Prince Hermann Pückler-Muskau. Sabine STRÜMPER-KROBB: The Image of Colours: The Presentation of Visual Impressions in the Prose of Jens Peter Jacobsen. Anne FUCHS: A Suitcase, Passport and a Photograph: The Iconography of Abjection in Kafka's Der Verschollene. Eric ROBERTSON: Creation and (De)Constructi-on in the Work of Hans Jean Arp. Martina E. LINNEMANN: Concrete Poetry - A Post-War Experiment in Visual Poetry. Helen HUGHES: The Hand as Text and Image: On Valie Export's Körpersplitter. Arnd WITTE: The Fall and Rise of the Poet in the Modern City. Hermann RASCHE: Text and Images in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Schnitte. Pascale Mc GARRY: The Metaphor of Painting in Toussaint's Novel L'Appareil Photo. Martin Ignatius GAUGHAN: Textual Titles: Resisting Translation. TEXT AND MOVING IMAGE. Horst CLAUS: Whose Film Is It? Alexander Korda's Adaptation of Carl Zuckmayer's Film Script Rembrandt. Anthony S. COULSON: Veit Harlan's Immensee: A Study in the Perversion of a Literary Classic. Ingo CORNILS: Problems of Visualisation: The Image of the Unknown in German Science Fiction. Andrea RINKE: Lotte in Weimar and Unser kurzes Leben: Two Cinematic Adaptations of Literature in the Ex-GDR. Paul O'DOHERTY: Fiddler in the Ghetto: The Film of Jurek Becker's Novel Jakob der Lügner. Ursula BÖSER: 'Das Kino aber stört das Schauen': Straub/Huillet's Klassenverhältnisse and Franz Kafka's Der Verschollene. Daniela BERGHAHN: '... womit sonst kann man heute erzählen als mit Bildern?' Images and Stories in Wim Wenders' Der Himmel über Berlin and In weiter Ferne, so nah! Rob BURNS: From Bondage to Bonding: Saliha Scheinhardt's Frauen, die sterben, ohne daß sie gelebt hätten and Tevfik Baser's Abschied vom falschen Paradies. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors.