Edited by Laurence Petit and Pascale Tollance
Point, Dot, Period… The Dynamics of Punctuation in Text and Image is a collection of twelve previously unpublished essays which explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. Whilst drawing upon a wide range of material, including painting, engraving, photography, video art, poetry, fiction, and journalism, each essay contributes to the exploration of singular uses of punctuation which highlight the complexity of what remains in all cases a silent, and yet particularly eloquent, mode of expression. By bringing together authors from a variety of fields, such as linguistics, literary studies, and art criticism, at a time when the relation between text and image occupies a prominent place in the critical landscape, this volume offers new insights into the possibility and nature of their encounter, and invites the reader to focus on the material aspect of visual and textual creation. This collection also offers an original approach to the works of some major artists and canonical authors, whilst simultaneously making room for emerging talents.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I: The Punctuation of the Image: The Disruptive Power of the Dot
Chapter One
Lines or Dots? Reproduction Processes in Handbooks on Illustration, 1890s-1920s
Sophie Aymes
Chapter Two
Ceci n’est pas un point: le nouveau langage pictural de Roy Lichtenstein
Hélène Gaillard
Chapter Three
Poeïtic Adriftness in Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s Video Art: Dissolved Points
Valérie Morisson
Part II: Seeking Each Other in Punctuation: Points of Intersection between Text and Image
Chapter Four
Circles and Lines / Limits and Extensions: The Kinetic Conflicts Inherent in Anne Carson’s The Life of Towns and Wassily Kandinsky’s Point and Line to Plane
Jennifer K. Dick
Chapter Five
Punctuation Marks and Points of Detail in Paul Durcan’s Intermedial Poetry
Cathy Roche-Liger
Chapter Six
“[I]t wasn’t in the picture and is not”: Blind Spots and Vanishing Points in Irish Self-Portraits
Christelle Serée-Chaussinand
Chapter Seven
“Like a sharp pin in the folds of a blanket” Points d’arrêt, points d’ouverture: “Ce qui vient au point de vue” (Deleuze)
Liliane Louvel
Part III: The Sensory Page: Textual Punctuation and the Silent Grammar of the Body
Chapter Eight
The Semicolon: A Funny Kind of Silence
Lynn Blin
Chapter Nine
Les points de silence dans l’écriture conradienne
Claude Maisonnat
Chapter Ten
Dots and Doodles: Virginia Woolf’s “Sensory” Page
Chantal Delourme
Chapter Eleven
“Perhaps there is no time [...] perhaps there is only space, and I a dot of light”: Perforation and Punctuation in J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country
Pascale Tollance
Chapter Twelve
Dots between Expression and Aporia in All One Horse, by Breyten Breytenbach
Kerry-Jane Wallart
Contributors
Abstracts
Index
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Number of pages: 202 p. – Publication date: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-8806-6
ISBN-10: 1-4438-8806-0 – Price: £ 47.99