How can we uncover the multiple layers and intricate strata that shape cultural, literary, and artistic productions over time? This volume offers a rigorous exploration of sedimentation, both literal and metaphorical, as a framework for understanding the archaeology of writing and image. It foregrounds sedimentation as a dynamic process of accumulation, memory, and historical layering, where knowledge, forms, and ideas continually interact through flux, anachronism, and survival. Richly illustrated with rare images, this book brings together contributions from leading scholars and creators to critically examine the productive intersections between text and image, advancing new perspectives on the geological sedimentation of meaning in contemporary cultural discourse.
Biagio DâAngelo, Ph.D. (1998), RGGU - Russian University for Humanistic Studies, Moscow, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Theory of Art at University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on literature and art, including Espaces. Topographies et imaginaires (2018).
Camila Augusta Pires de Figueiredo, Doctor in Literary Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, is Vice-Director of UFMG University Press. She has published on intermediality, transmedia, and adaptations, including essays in Adaptation and Illustration (2024) and Truth Claims Across Media (2024).
Georg Otte is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Letters, UFMG. His publications focus on the works of Walter Benjamin and Hans Blumenberg, including Impressão e Expressão: formas do imediato de Walter Benjamin (2022).
Miriam de Paiva Vieira, Doctor in Literary Studies (UFMG), Professor at the Department of Letters, Arts and Culture, Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil. Coeditor of The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality (2024).