Visual cultures
Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. The content is not only analytic, but also historical, tracing changes in the significance of visual and verbal literacy in each nation. Visual Cultures also raises and explores issues of national identity, and provides a wealth of in…
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- Full title :Visual cultures / edited by James Elkins.
Summary
Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. The content is not only analytic, but also historical, tracing changes in the significance of visual and verbal literacy in each nation. Visual Cultures also raises and explores issues of national identity, and provides a wealth of information for future research. Visual Cultures will appeal to those with an interest in visual studies.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Intellect
- Place of Publication:Bristol, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (112 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781841503844, 1841503843, 184150307X, 9781841503073, 128277929X, 9781282779297
- oclc:ocn608562475
- LC Classification:N72.S6
- Dewey Decimal:700
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction; Slovenia: Visuality and Literarity In Slovene Culture; Japan: Lost In Translation, or Nothing To See But Everything; Ireland: Words Upon the Windowpane: Image, Text, and Irish Culture; Poland: A Visually-Oriented Literary Culture?; China: Verbal Above Visual: A Chinese Perspective; Russia: To Read, To Look: Teaching Visual Studies in Moscow; Critical Response; Contributors; Back Cover.
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