The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art

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