Visual and the Verbal in Film, Drama, Literature and Biography

The volume explores selected relations between visual and verbal aspects of film, drama, literature and biography. The chapters deal with such areas as film adaptations, remakes, ekphrasis, photography and the novel, feminist rewritings, acts of iconoclasm in postcolonial drama, and biographical studies. Adopting a variety of methodologies, each of the contributors draws a link between the particular and the general, a text or a picture at hand and a mechanism that produces or annihilates meanings. Some big literary names surface in the book, most notably William Shakespeare and Henry James, but forgotten and marginalized writers and artists, such as old Irish poets, Wyndham Lewis, Stefan Themerson, feminist and postcolonial dramatists are also brought into the limelight.

Autorentext

Miroslawa Buchholtz, Professor of English and Director of the English Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland); author and editor of numerous publications on Henry James, postcolonial studies, American and Canadian literature.
Grzegorz Koneczniak, Assistant Professor at the English Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland); author of a book on women on stage and the decolonisation of Ireland and of articles on postcolonial theatre and drama.

Inhalt

Contents: Miroslawa Buchholtz: Introduction - Andrzej Weselinski: Film Adaptations: Theories, and New/Old Dilemmas - Jacek Fabiszak: Polalski and Nazar: The Correspondences between Their Screen Versions of Shakespeare's Macbeth - Agnieszka Rasmus: Same but Different: Comparing Transgression in Sleuth - Edyta Lorek-Jezinska: Re-Writing Ophelia: Iconography of Madness and Death in Bryony Lavery's and Deborah Levy's Plays - Grzegorz Koneczniak: Acts of Verbal and Visual Iconoclasm in Postcolonial Drama: Explorations of Helen Gilbert's Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology - Grzegorz Koneczniak: From Orality to Visuality: Enactments of Neo-Colonialism in The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya and Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor - Waclaw Grzybowski: Juxtaposition, Being and Primary Analogate: An Introduction to the Metaphysical Concept of Metaphor on the basis of Old Irish Poetry - Dominika Buchowska: Verbal and Visual Correspondences in Wyndham Lewis's The Tyro - Miroslawa Buchholtz: Real, Surreal, Hyperreal: Photography and the Novel according to Henry James, André Breton, and W.G. Sebald - Rod Mengham: Stefan Themerson as a Polish Artist and an English Writer - Jaroslaw Hetman: Auster, Calle and the Conceptual Origins of Ekphrasis - Miroslawa Buchholtz: The Role of Visual Portraits in Biographical Studies: Imag(in)ing Henry James.