Visualization is defined as the production of mental images in the process of reading (Esrock
2005: 633). This article is concerned with varieties of visualization during an absorbing …

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial
things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study …

This introduction briefly surveys the current expansion of ekphrasis in terms of genres, visual
objects, modes of writing, and cues for reader response. Drawing on suggestions from the …

Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and
transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation …

This article deals with the phenomenology of reading narrative fictions, in particular with the
production of mental imagery in the process of reading. Because readers differ in their …

This article takes as its starting point the conspicuous ekphrastic nature of many
contemporary Anglophone transcultural novels and asks about their engagement with …

This article examines the uses of ekphrasis in recent popular novels, situated in a cultural
economy in which there is great public interest in art objects and the world of artists, dealers …

This article confronts the theoretical tenets of reader-oriented short story collection theory
and its implications for a literary analysis of Benni's Il bar sotto il mare (1987) with the results …

This chapter investigates how literature helps to sharpen readers' awareness of their own
values and to foster feelings of responsibility for their environment. Since literature …

Cette thèse explore, selon une perspective intermédiale, le rapport entre les phénomènes
de remédiation et le problème de la disparition à partir d'œuvres littéraires et filmique: Un …