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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Main Author: Shingler, Katherine
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Published: Edinburgh University Press 2011
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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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