This collection focuses on texts that address the other arts â from painting to photography, from the stage to the screen, and from avant-garde experiments to mass culture. Despite their diversity of object and approach, the essays in Relational Designs coalesce around the argument that representations are defined by relations and dynamics, rather than intrinsic features. This rationale is supported by the discourses and methodologies favoured by the bookâs contributors: their approaches offer a cross section of the intellectual and critical environment of our time. The book illustrates the critical possibilities that derive from the broad range of modes of inquiry - poststructuralist criticism, gender studies, postcolonial studies, new historicism â that the bookâs four sections bring to bear on a wealth of intermedial practices. But Relational Designs compounds such critical emphases with the voice of the practitioner: the book is rounded off by an interview in which a contemporary novelist discusses her attraction to the other arts in terms that extend the bookâs insights and bridge the gap between academic discourse and artistic practice.
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
The Centre of the Canon and its Elsewheres: Shakespeareâs Wanderings
section co-edited with an introduction by Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
Remedios Perni: A Fellow of Infinite Jest
Agnes Matuska: Shaping the Spectacle: Faking, Making and Performing Reality through Shakespeare
Sofia de Melo Araújo: The Framing of the Shrew: How the Lens Looks upon William Shakespeareâs The Taming of the Shrew
Miguel Ramalhete Gomes: âTHE ARTWORK ON EXHIBIT RUNS ABOUTâ: Brigitte Maria Meyerâs Filmic Adaptation of Heiner Müllerâs Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome Changing Experiences, Changing Discourses: The Challenges of Intermediality
section co-edited with an introduction by Jorge Bastos da Silva
Carmen Lara-Rallo: Ekphrasis Revisited: Crossing Artistic Boundaries
Helena Lopes: The Cinematograph in the Novel
Jorge Bastos da Silva: Formal Doubleness and Moral Duplicity: The Holocaust on the Page and Screen
Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia: Hitchcock Goes East: Postcolonial Gothic in Under Capricorn
Margarida Esteves Pereira: Bright Star: Reinventing Romantic Poetry for the Screen
MartÃn Urdiales Shaw: Reaching Beyond the Commix/Ture: Art Spiegelmanâs Maus as Relational Genre
Daniel Nicolás Ferreiro: Relational Genres, Gapped Narratives, and Metafictional Devices in Daniel Clowesâ David Boring
Ekaterina Eynullaeva and Elizabeth Woodward-Smith: The Verbal and the Visual in Advertising Language: A Cross-cultural Analysis
Writing and the Gaze: Inscriptions of the Modern
section co-edited with an introduction by Teresa Louro
Martin Heusser: Radical Eye Rhymes: Visual Strategies in Modernist Poetry
Frank Hutton-Williams: The Visual Artifact in the Poetry of Thomas McGreevy
Julie Bates: Humble Relics: Beckett and Van Goghâs Old Boots
Tomás Monterrey: The Ekphrastic Evocation of Real-ity and the Modernist Dismantling of Pictorial Frames in Fiction
M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera: Modernism and the Metropolis: Representing the City as Transitory Spectacle
Angeliki Spiropoulou: The Modern Work of Art and the Spatialisation of Time: Painting in the Novel
Teresa Louro: Virginia Woolf and the Art of Pain
Aidan McCardle: Into the Stride of the Poem
Postmodern Shifts: Narrative and the Arts
section co-edited with an introduction by Márcia Lemos
Teresa Casal: âWhen you look through the eyes of anotherâ: Mary and Lydia Cassatt in Art, Life, and Fiction
Márcia Lemos: âAn agony of perceivednessâ? â Gazes and Disguises in the Works of James Joyce and Cindy Sherman
Ana Rull Suárez: The Journey as Pictorial Metaphor in Thomas Pynchonâs The Crying of Lot 49
Maria Aline Ferreira: âDeath and the Young Manâ: Saramagoâs Death at Intervals
Eduardo Barros-Grela: Performances of Uncertainty in Spaces of Contingency: Aesthetic Confinement and Mechanisms of Silencing in Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, and Park Chan-wook
An Afterpiece
Teresa Casal: Painting with Words and Becoming Other People: Theatre and the Visual Arts in Molly Foxâs Birthday and Authenticity â an interview with novelist Deirdre Madden
Contributors
Index