Images and Imagery

The Editors: Leslie Boldt-Irons is Professor of French at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the English translator of Georges Bataille’s L'expérience intérieure and has also edited a collection of essays on Bataille’s work. She has published articles on a variety of twentieth-century French authors and teaches courses on French literature, cinema, and culture and civilization.Corrado Federici is Professor of Italian at Brock University. He has translated several books from the original Italian, including Luciano Nanni’s The Power of Communication: Essays on Adespotic Aesthetics and Italian Women Poets, has co-edited Literary Texts and the Arts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, and has published articles and book chapters on modern Italian poets and novelists. Ernesto Virgulti is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Brock University, where he teaches Italian language, literature, and cinema. His publications include articles and essays on Boccaccio’s Decameron, medieval European narrative, literary semiotics and narratology, and, more recently, a critical edition of Luigi Pirandello’s Cosí è (se vi pare).

• Contents: David Escoffery: Dada Performance and the Rhetoric of Nonsense: Tearing Down the Fourth Wall at the Cabaret Voltaire – Gary Genosko: Phatic (Dys)functions: The Shifting Contour of the TV Screen – Elizabeth K. Menon: Web Installation Art, Interactivity and «User Connectivity» – Sarah Lippert: Gustave Moreau and the Paragone: A Painter’s Challenge to a New Breed of Art Critic – John Picchione: Poetry and Visual Practices in Italy: Aesthetic and Ideological Subversions – Karen Ware: Frank O’Hara’s Oranges: The Relations between Poetry, Painting and Painters – Lourdes Bates: Fantasies of Modernity in Mid-Century Mexico – Laurence Petit: «Truth in Framing»: Medusa’s Defeat or the Triumph of the «Framed» Self in A.S. Byatt’s Medusa’s Ankles – Gyllian Raby: From Pre-Luddites to the Human Genome Project: Smashing Frames in Shelagh Stephenson’s An Experiment with an Air Pump – Jaime Bihlmeyer: Novel, Script, Image: A Case Study of the Phallic (M)other in Mainstream Culture – Cy-Thea Sand: «Under the Promise of Bark»: Erotic Power in Emily Carr’s Self-Portrait (1938-1939) – Cristina Santos: The Monstrous Representation of Women in the Mexican Cultural Imaginary – Maria Beaudoin: Creating a «Maxx»imum Narratology: The Maxx, Comic Books, and Narrative Theory – Michela Meschini: Rewriting Las Meninas: Imagery and Textuality in Antonio Tabucchi’s Il gioco del rovescio – Christina Wallace: Intersecting Blake: Rereading The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – Faith Balisch: Lynn Johnston’s «Theratoons»: Extending the Limits of the Comic Strip – Patrick Lennon: Depiction and Destruction: W.G. Sebald’s Realism – Judith Levy: Between Presence and Absence: Caravaggio’s The Supper at Emmaus.