The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art

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<P><EM>The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art</EM> explores the links between literature and visual art from classical <I>ekphrasis </I>through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection¿s engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts. </P><P>Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of <I>ekphrasis </I>across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the v