Neil Murphy is Professor of English in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His publications include John Banville (2018).W. Michelle Wang is Associate Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the author of Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (2020).Cheryl Julia Lee is Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her poetry collection, We Were Always Eating Expired Things (2014), was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Aesthetics, Art, and Literature: Theoretical Concerns1. The Concept of Literature2. Cracking the Mirror: Autobiography and Self-Portraiture3. Literature, Art, Craft4. Beauty as Interaction5. Figuration: The Cinematic in Literature6. A New Science of Aesthetics: The Dual Brain Mechanics of Beauty, Wonder, and the Sublime7. Experiential Aesthetics and Varieties of the Sublime8. The Unattainable in the Literature of Love9. "Go and catch a falling star": Embodiment, Cognition, and ImageryPart II: Ekphrastic Encounters10. Ekphrastic Encounters and Contemporary Fiction11. The Strange Case of Notional Ekphrasis12. The Temporal Politics of Chaucerian Ekphrasis and the Beginnings of Trecento Art History13. Ekphrasis and the Modern Lyric14. Negotiating the In-Between: Culture as "A Gift that Circulates and which No One Owns" in Nick Joaquín’s "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino: An Elegy in Three Scenes"15. Multivalent Muses in Mori Ogai’s Fictions16. Making Magic: Comics and the Ekphrastic Art of the Almost There17. Ekphrasis: Art and Texts on Art in the Ottoman World18. "Wildly visual": Bouvier, Synge, and Flaherty on the Aran Islands19. A Matisse Story: A. S. Byatt’s "A Lamia in the Cévennes" and the Religion of Happiness20. Art–Life–Planet: Ekphrasis TodayPart III: Intermedial Crossings: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century21. Vispo: A History of Visual Poetry22. Entwining Ephemeral with the Eternal: Locus, Conca, and Margarita at Conques23. Representing Truth in Illuminated Arthurian Manuscripts: Specular Encounters and the Meta Image24. Dasharatha’s Oil Vat in the Mewar Ramayana25. The Pictorial Parallel and the Early Histories of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction26. Laurence Sterne and Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture27. Delacroix Reads Ivanhoe: "Painting Thoughts"Part IV: Intermedial Crossings: From Modernism to the Present28. Another Turn of the Screw: Illustration as Interpretation29. Driving the Plot through Color30. T. S. Eliot and the Gesamtkunstwerk or "Total Work of Art"31. Dancing Feeling, or Kinesthetic Empathy in Contemporary Dance Fictions32. Inscribed Sites: Verbal Art in Postmodern Built Environments33. Detritus Art after WWII: Impoverishment, Collage, and the Inoperative Tradition34. Behind the Painting, A Pantoum: Literature and Art and Southeast Asia35. Bridging Worlds: Infographics, Maps, and Photographs in Graphic Novels36. Conceptual and Performative Art in Tom McCarthy, Michel Houellebecq and Don DeLillo37. Concealed Strokes: Fu-bi as Aesthetic PrincipleIndex