The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection's engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts. Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography, media installations, and television. Throughout this dynamic collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies, philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture. The Introduction and Chapters 10, 14 and 37 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Neil Murphy is Professor of English in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His publications include John Banville (2018). W. Michelle Wang is Associate Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the author of Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (2020). Cheryl Julia Lee is Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her poetry collection, We Were Always Eating Expired Things (2014), was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize.

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aesthetics, Art, and Literature: Theoretical Concerns 1. The Concept of Literature 2. Cracking the Mirror: Autobiography and Self-Portraiture 3. Literature, Art, Craft 4. Beauty as Interaction 5. Figuration: The Cinematic in Literature 6. A New Science of Aesthetics: The Dual Brain Mechanics of Beauty, Wonder, and the Sublime 7. Experiential Aesthetics and Varieties of the Sublime 8. The Unattainable in the Literature of Love 9. "Go and catch a falling star": Embodiment, Cognition, and Imagery Part II: Ekphrastic Encounters 10. Ekphrastic Encounters and Contemporary Fiction 11. The Strange Case of Notional Ekphrasis 12. The Temporal Politics of Chaucerian Ekphrasis and the Beginnings of Trecento Art History 13. Ekphrasis and the Modern Lyric 14. Negotiating the In-Between: Culture as "A Gift that Circulates and which No One Owns" in Nick Joaquín's "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino: An Elegy in Three Scenes" 15. Multivalent Muses in Mori Ogai's Fictions 16. Making Magic: Comics and the Ekphrastic Art of the Almost There 17. Ekphrasis: Art and Texts on Art in the Ottoman World 18. "Wildly visual": Bouvier, Synge, and Flaherty on the Aran Islands 19. A Matisse Story: A. S. Byatt's "A Lamia in the Cévennes" and the Religion of Happiness 20. Art-Life-Planet: Ekphrasis Today Part III: Intermedial Crossings: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century 21. Vispo: A History of Visual Poetry 22. Entwining Ephemeral with the Eternal: Locus, Conca, and Margarita at Conques 23. Representing Truth in Illuminated Arthurian Manuscripts: Specular Encounters and the Meta Image 24. Dasharatha's Oil Vat in the Mewar Ramayana 25. The Pictorial Parallel and the Early Histories of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction 26. Laurence Sterne and Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture 27. Delacroix Reads Ivanhoe: "Painting Thoughts" Part IV: Intermedial Crossings: From Modernism to the Present 28. Another Turn of the Screw: Illustration as Interpretation 29. Driving the Plot through Color 30. T. S. Eliot and the Gesamtkunstwerk or "Total Work of Art" 31. Dancing Feeling, or Kinesthetic Empathy in Contemporary Dance Fictions 32. Inscribed Sites: Verbal Art in Postmodern Built Environments 33. Detritus Art after WWII: Impoverishment, Collage, and the Inoperative Tradition 34. Behind the Painting, A Pantoum: Literature and Art and Southeast Asia 35. Bridging Worlds: Infographics, Maps, and Photographs in Graphic Novels 36. Conceptual and Performative Art in Tom McCarthy, Michel Houellebecq and Don DeLillo 37. Concealed Strokes: Fu-bi as Aesthetic Principle Index