Visible writings cultures, forms, readings / edited by Marija Dalbello and Mary Shaw.

Other author Dalbello, Marija.
Other author Shaw, Mary Lewis.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionx, 356 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Buzz Spector, encyclopaedia -- Contours of meaning in the scripts of ancient MesoAmerica: Western epistemology and the phonetic issue / Gordon Brotherston -- Arts in letters: The aesthetics of ancient Greek writing / Alexandra Pappas -- Letter and spirit: The power of the letter, the enlivenment of the word in medieval art / Cynthia Hahn -- Visible and invisible letters: Text versus image in Renaissance England and Europe / Peter Stallybrass -- Illegibility and grammophobia in "Paul et Virginie" / Lorraine Piroux -- Written on the page / Jacques Neefs -- Buzz Spector, Kafka -- Face to face -- As if -- Sur-face text-ure -- Un coup de dés & La Prose du Transsibérien: A study in contraries / Mary Shaw -- Mathematics for "Just Plain Folks": Allegories of quantitative and qualitative information in the Habsburg sphere / Marija Dalbello -- Beneath the words: Visual messages in French Fin-de-Siècle posters / Phillip Dennis Cate -- How do you pronounce a pictogram? On "Visible Writing" in comics / François Cornilliat -- Inviting words into the image: Multiple meanings in modern and contemporary art / Marilyn Symmes, with Christine Giviskos and Julia Tulovsky -- Color writings: On three polychrome texts / Tiphaine Samoyault -- Buzz Spector, Joyc-aean -- A rose is ? -- Kafka-esque -- Actual words of art -- The figurative and the gestural: Chinese writing according to Marcel Granet / Li Jinjia -- Michaux: To be read. To be seen / Claude Mouchard -- Reading the Alhambra / Richard Serrano -- Catastrophe writings: In the wake of September 11 / Béatrice Fraenkel -- -visible, legible, illegible- : Around a limit / Roxane Jubert -- Sttmnt -- Buzz Spector -- Buzz Spector, Colloquium #1 (Picture puzzles) -- Colloquium #2 -- Colloquium #3 -- Colloquium #4.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010004651
ISBN9780813548821 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813548838 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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