Gudrun Grabher

Martin Heusser

American Foundational Myths

Michèle Hannoosh

The essays in this collection are a selection of the papers given at the Fifth International Conference on Word and Image Studies, Claremont, CA, 14-20 March, 1999.

Word & Image Interactions 4

On Verbal/visual Representation

Johannes Riquet

This volume explores the many facets and ongoing transformations of our visual identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its chapters engage with the constitution of personal, national and cultural identities at the intersection of the verbal and the visual across a range of media. They are attentive to how the medialities and (im)materialities of modern image culture inflect our conceptions of identity, examining the cultural and political force of literature, films, online video messages, rap songs, selfies, digital algorithms, social media, computer-generated images, photojournalism and branding, among others. They also reflect on the image theories that emerged in the same time span—from early theorists such as Charles S. Peirce to twentieth-century models like those proposed by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida as well as more recent theories by Jacques Rancière, W. J. T. Mitchell and others. The contributors of Imaging Identity come from a wide range of disciplines including literary studies, media studies, art history, tourism studies and semiotics. The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership interested in contemporary visual culture and image theory.

Text, Mediality and Contemporary Visual Culture

Imaging Identity

Andreas Fischer

Thomas Herrmann

Studies in Honour of Max Nänny

Aspects of Modernism

the poetry of E.E. Cummings

I am my writing

A Study of the Reader-writer Relationship in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

Martin Heusser

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