Fair and Varied Forms: Visual Textuality in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

ISBN-13: 9780415942676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str.

Mary C. Olson; C. Olson Mary

Opis

This book examines the relationship between words and images in illustrated texts. The focus is on cultural attitudes toward illustrations and the idea that one might consider graphic material other than writing as text and text as graphics. This aspect of books and manuscripts has often been ignored by literary critics and the vocabulary for discussing it is often inadequate.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE -- Graphic Signification -- Perception and Corwepnun -- Potency of Images and Words -- Modes of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Structure in the Graphic Field -- Contexts -- CHAPTER TWO -- Inner Space, Outer Space, Graphic Space: Words and Picture; in Anglo-Saxon Culture -- The Print-culture Bias -- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes toward Scribes, Illustrators, and the Visual -- Anglo-Saxon Readers and Writers -- Anglo-Saxon Artisans -- Image Veneration -- Anglo-Saxon Illustrated hooks -- Patterns of Identification: Schemata -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Patterns of Relationship: Spatial Models -- Images of Time -- Time and Space on the Manuscript Page -- CHAPTER THREE -- The Reading Subject and the Devotional Text: The Harley Psalter -- The Manuscript -- The Psalms in Anglo-Saxon Life -- Purpose of the Harley Psalter -- Psalm 33 -- Psalm I -- Psalm 113 -- Patterns of Relationship: Cosmic Space -- Patterns of Identification: Schematizarion and the Representation of Xmen -- The Political Nature of the Psalter -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: More on Metaphor -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Narratise Time in Graphic Space: The Illustrated Hexateuch -- The stanuscript -- Patterns of Identification: Schemata -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Patterns of Relationship: Movement in Narrative Space -- Spatial Time -- Allegorical lime -- CHAPTER FIVBE -- My Monster, Myself: The Mantels of the Last -- The Manuscript -- The Monstrous Races -- Patterns of Ideiuification: Schematic Monsters -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Dog-Ants and Valkyry-eyed Beasts -- Patterns of Relationship: Occupying the Framed Space -- CHAPTER SIX -- Marginal Portraits and the Fiction of Orality: -- The Ellesmere Manuscript -- Changes in the Making and Reading of Texts Since the Eleventh Century -- Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales -- Patterns of Relationship: Page Layout and the Reader -- Modes of Identification: Schemata and Discursive Detail -- Patterns of Substitution and Interaction: Metonymic Focus on Orality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

O autorze

Mary C. Olson