Intervisuality: New Approaches to Greek Literature - Hardcover

by Andrea Capra (Editor), Lucia Floridi (Editor)

Intertextuality is a well-known tool in literary criticism and has been widely applied to ancient literature, with, perhaps surprisingly, classical scholarship being at the frontline in developing new theoretical approaches. By contrast, the seemingly parallel notion of intervisuality has only recently begun to appear in classical studies. In fact, intervisuality still lacks a clear definition and scope. Unlike intertextuality, which is consistently used with reference to the interrelationship between texts, the term 'intervisuality' is used not only to trace the interrelationship between images in the visual domain, but also to explore the complex interplay between the visual and the verbal. It is precisely this hybridity that interests us. Intervisuality has proved extremely productive in fields such as art history and visual culture studies. By bringing together a diverse team of scholars, this project aims to bring intervisuality into sharper focus and turn it into a powerful tool to explore the research field traditionally referred to as 'Greek literature'.

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While intertextuality is a well-known tool in literary criticism, the parallel notion of intervisuality, that has proved extremely productive in fields such as art history and visual culture studies, has only recently begun to appear in classical studies. The term 'intervisuality' is used not only to trace the interrelationship between images in the visual domain, but also to explore the complex interplay between the visual and the verbal. By bringing together a diverse team of scholars, this collection of essays, focused on a variety of authors and genres, from the Archaic to the Imperial time, brings intervisuality into sharper focus and turns it into a powerful tool to explore the research field traditionally referred to as 'Greek literature'.

Author Biography

Andrea Capra, Durham University, Durham, UK; Lucia Floridi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.