Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Tone: The Challenges of Representation I -- Speaking for Pictures: Language and Abstract Art -- 2. Early Modern to Modern: representations, appropriations -- Seeing and Writing Venus in Spenser, Shakespeare, Titian -- John Donne's Arcimboldesque Wit in "To Sir Edward Herbert. At Julyers": A Partial Reading -- Perspective and Framing in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and in the Work of Caspar David Friedrich -- William Hogarth seen by Pinheiro Chagas: looking at Britain and writing about Portugal -- Visual Portraits and Literary Portraits: the Intertextual Dialogue between Holbein and Ford Madox Ford -- 3. Crossing Images, Changing Places -- Fictions of the Art World: Art, Art History and the Art Historian in Literary Space -- A Reading of Michel Butor's La Modification as an Emblematic Iconotext -- The Making of The Eiffel Tower as a Modern Icon -- Reflections on Baudelaire's Paris: Photography, Modernity and Memory -- 4. Women and the Intermedium -- 4.1. Portraits and Causes -- Les Filles d'Ève in Word and Image -- Paula Rego's Painterly Narratives: Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea - A Dictionary of Images -- Looking for Clues: McGuckian, poems and portraits -- 4.2. Ambivalent Narratives: A.S. Byatt -- Matisse and Women: Portraits by A.S. Byatt -- More than Words: the Elusive Language of A.S. Byatt's Visual Fiction -- Ekphrasis as Portrait: A.S. Byatt's Fictional and Visual Doppelgänger -- 5. The Lens and the Print: text, photo, semiotics -- "A Kind of Patriotism": Jack Kerouac's Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans (1959) -- 3 (Ultimate) Journeys: Fulton, Weiner & Kiefer -- Karen Knorr and Tracey Moffat: When the photographer chooses the words in order to photograph the images -- An Act of Erasure: October and the Index -- 6. Stage and Screen, East and West.

The Semiotics of the Body: Ritual and Dance in Soyinka's Drama -- An Inheritance of Horror: the Shadow of Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari in Salman Rushdie's Shame -- The Ethnographer's Eye: Vision, Narration, and Poetic Imagery in Contemporary Anthropological Film -- 7. High and Low, Learned and Popular: straying narratives -- Looking at the Written Text on Television -- Listen to Me: Influence of Shojo manga on contemporary Japanese women's writing -- The Link Between Text and Image in Voyage au bout de la nuit de Céline by Tardi -- 8. Arts and Crafts: composite skills -- Pulsating Visions - Idioms Incarnate: Wassily Kandinsky Amidst Stage, Pen and Brush -- From Medieval Manuscripts to Postmodern Hypertexts in the Art of David Jones -- Visual and Verbal Representations in the Scottish Novel: The Artistry of Alasdair Gray -- When what you see is what you read -- 9. Postscript: the Long Perspective, or, The Challenges of Representation II -- The Root of Forms -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.