Word and Image

Framing Philology

Bibliographic Data

ID4940874
AuthorsAxel Fliethmann (0000-0001-7918-8816, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume89
Issue1
Pages43-57
Publication date2007-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513607076132
OpenAlexW2140801615
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This text focuses from a philological perspective on media theories and their impact on traditional text-based disciplines. Therefore it looks at the problems that have emerged for Media Studies as well as for traditional studies in philology when reflecting on the concept of self-reference, since their subjects can seemingly no longer rely on the purity of the written word. If research work in the field of humanities is still mainly documented by texts, how does the advance of images as a challenging research subject affect the text that is referring to that subject? Speaking in media terms: how is the medium `text', which still remains text when it is concerned with the medium `image', affected by the `other' medium? This question deals with the problem of self-reference, hence the construction of disciplinary limitations in various academic fields. Beginning with this question, I try to find out how the difference between self-reference (text) and reference (image) has been and still is being organized in texts. How can we compare different types of theorizing images in texts? These abstract problems will be exemplified by situating the word-image bias in a wider historical context. The text concludes by developing some possibilities for future research within this area of visual culture and academic writing

Discipline · Epistemology · Feminism · Library science · Linguistics · Philology · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Artificial Intelligence

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