The Art of Literature, Art in Literature

The volume consists of twelve essays centred around the idea of dialogic exchange between literature and visual arts (mainly painting), which since the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries has been steadily growing into prominence among literary explorations. Through their readings of modern and post-modern texts, the authors attempt to approach selected literary works in the context of the works of art invoked by poets and writers through the medium of language. Such instances of artistic synthesis, whether realised as traditional ekphrasis and commentary or through the complexities of intersemiotic discourse, bring out the evolving nature of perspectives on art and literature, and point in the directions of expressive possibilities offered by a simultaneity of words and images.

Magdalena Bleinert teaches language and literature at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests include 19th-century fiction and British modernism.

Izabela Curyllo-Klag teaches British literature and culture at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests include the modern British novel, dystopian fiction, and the intersections between literature and history.

Bozena Kucala teaches British literature at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests include contemporary British fiction, connections between history and literature, intertextuality, neo-Victorian fiction, the work of J.M. Coetzee.