Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes
Literary scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in reading, and have incorporated scientific research in this area into their critical approaches to texts. This article argues that such an approach is particularly appropriate when au...
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| description | Literary scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in reading, and have incorporated scientific research in this area into their critical approaches to texts. This article argues that such an approach is particularly appropriate when authors explicitly engage with the way in which their texts are visually taken in and processed. This is the case with Guillaume Apollinaire, whose calligrammes are informed by a theory of visual-verbal simultaneity stipulating that the reader should be simultaneously aware of both textual and pictorial aspects of the poem. Experimental research in the psychology of reading and picture perception is used to assess this theory of simultaneity, and specifically to challenge Michel Foucault's claim that reading and viewing are mutually exclusive processes. The article concludes by considering further applications of psychological research to word and image studies. |
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| spelling | nottingham-339012020-05-04T16:30:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33901/ Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes Shingler, Katherine Literary scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in reading, and have incorporated scientific research in this area into their critical approaches to texts. This article argues that such an approach is particularly appropriate when authors explicitly engage with the way in which their texts are visually taken in and processed. This is the case with Guillaume Apollinaire, whose calligrammes are informed by a theory of visual-verbal simultaneity stipulating that the reader should be simultaneously aware of both textual and pictorial aspects of the poem. Experimental research in the psychology of reading and picture perception is used to assess this theory of simultaneity, and specifically to challenge Michel Foucault's claim that reading and viewing are mutually exclusive processes. The article concludes by considering further applications of psychological research to word and image studies. Edinburgh University Press 2011-03-01 Article PeerReviewed Shingler, Katherine (2011) Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes. Paragraph, 34 (1). pp. 66-85. ISSN 1750-0176 Guillaume Apollinaire visual poetry simultaneity experimental psychology interdisciplinarity text and image http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/para.2011.0006 doi:10.3366/para.2011.0006 doi:10.3366/para.2011.0006 |
| spellingShingle | Guillaume Apollinaire visual poetry simultaneity experimental psychology interdisciplinarity text and image Shingler, Katherine Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes |
| title | Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes |
| title_full | Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes |
| title_fullStr | Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes |
| title_short | Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes |
| title_sort | perceiving text and image in apollinaire's calligrammes |
| topic | Guillaume Apollinaire visual poetry simultaneity experimental psychology interdisciplinarity text and image |
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