Poetics of the Iconotext

Liliane Louvel is Professor at Poitiers University (France). She specializes in contemporary British literature and Word/Image relationship. She has published 5 books on this subject: L'¦il du texte, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Le double miroir de l'art , Texte/image, images à lire et textes à voir, Le tiers pictural (2010). She has also edited 4 collections of essays on the subject. Laurence Petit is Associate Professor in the English Department of Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3, France. She has published several articles on text and image in contemporary British fiction, as well as translations of theoretical essays by George Bataille and Pierre Bourdieu. She is co-translator of A.S. Byatt's latest novel, The Children's Book (Paris: Flammarion, 2011). Karen Jacobs is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture (Cornell 2001); and she is currently completing a book titled Trace Atlas: Itineraries of Postmodern Literary Space.

• Infinite Dialogues; Part I Text/image: The Infinite Dialogue; Chapter 1 What Is an Image?; Chapter 2 The Infinite Dialogue Between Text and Image; Part II Modes of Insertion of the Pictorial: A Text/Image Typology; Chapter 3 Narrative Figures of the Pictorial Image; Chapter 4 From Text to Iconotext: Degrees of Pictorial Saturation; Chapter 5 Functions of the Image: A Pragmatics of the Iconotext; Part III Poetics of the Iconotext; Chapter 6 Variations on the Pictorial; Chapter 7 Beyond the Paragone: Towards a Poetics of Pictorial Rhythm;