Criteria for Describing Word-and-Image Relations

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ID4375149
AutoresA Kibédi Vargas (0009-0002-8611-6444, autor de correspondencia), A Kibédi Varga
Año1989
Volumen10
Número1
Páginas31
Fecha de publicación1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1772554
OpenAlexW2332038918
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas3

There is a great and quickly increasing number of studies on wordand-image relations, but few efforts have been made as yet to make explicit the general problems underlying this kind of research. I see at least two central problems, one methodological and one taxonomic. The former concerns the legitimacy of composing verbal and visual artifacts or transferring methods used in one field to the other field, the identity or difference in the meaning of our critical idiom when it is applied, simultaneously or separately, in both fields, and so on.' The methodological approach requires a well-chosen point of departure; thus Wendy Steiner (1982) picks up the historical ut pictura poesis tradition and tries to examine it in the light of modern, especially semiotic, criticism, whereas Manfred Muckenhaupt (1986) examines the current methods of comparing words and images from the point of view of modern linguistics, Gottfried Boehm (1978, 1986) and Oskar Batschmann (1977) from that of modern philosophy (especially aesthetics and hermeneutics). The second general problem is more practical. Facing the tremendous variety of phenomena which belong to word-and-image research, one would like to find some very general categories or headings which would allow a clear and comprehensive classification of all these phe

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