On one level, the guide's efforts to capture such visual images as engraved gems, landscape paintings, marbles, and urns represent an attempt to defeat the dominion of the image by writing it into language.

Providing a synthesis of New York's artistic and literary worlds, this book uses social and philosophical problems involved in reading a coterie to propose a language for understanding the poet, art critic, and Museum of Modern Art curator, ...

The incorporation of elements from one artistic medium into another creates a dynamic interplay of image and ideology, both between art forms and within individual texts and paintings, which constitutes the crux of this book.

Les innombrables références picturales qui jalonnent La Comédie humaine suffisent à prouver l'importance du rôle de la peinture dans la vie et l'oeuvre de Balzac.

This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to ...

English religious poetry--Donne and Herbert--Donne's Anniversaries revisited--The generous ambiguity of Herbert's Temple--Marlowe's "amorous poem"--Spencer's Amoretti"--Pure and impure pastoral--The Winter's tale--The masks of mannerism: ...

Jonah Siegel is right on target in dealing with this hugely important issue. I can only admire the vast range of themes and the quiet display of learning so apparent in this text. The book kept me constantly alert and informed.

Finally, the book uses the image of the bouquet to exemplify Manet's creative poetics through an exploration of his still life.