An Archaeology of Text and Image: / Une Archéologie Du Texte Et de l'Image: - (Word and Image Interactions) (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

How can we uncover the multiple layers and intricate strata that shape cultural, literary, and artistic productions over time? This volume offers a rigorous exploration of sedimentation, both literal and metaphorical, as a framework for understanding the archaeology of writing and image. It foregrounds sedimentation as a dynamic process of accumulation, memory, and historical layering, where knowledge, forms, and ideas continually interact through flux, anachronism, and survival. Richly illustrated with rare images, this book brings together contributions from leading scholars and creators to critically examine the productive intersections between text and image, advancing new perspectives on the geological sedimentation of meaning in contemporary cultural discourse.

Comment explorer les multiples couches, identifier les nombreux filons et dégager les strates qui façonnent les productions culturelles, littéraires et artistiques dans leur longue durée ? En mobilisant à la fois la notion littérale et métaphorique de la sédimentation, ce volume invite à une réflexion sur l'archéologie de l'écriture et de l'image. La notion de sédiment y prend tout son sens: celui de dépôt, d'accumulation, mais aussi l'idée que les couches successives de culture, de mémoire et d'histoire, que la sédimentation des savoirs, des formes et des idées, ne sont jamais figées mais se déploient dans un mouvement continu de flux et de reflux, d'anachronisme et de survivances. C'est à cette réflexion que ce volume richement illustré se consacre, en réunissant les contributions d'un éventail significatif de chercheurs et de créateurs, pour explorer les filons féconds entre le texte et l'image et interroger de façon critique les processus de sédimentation « géologique » des sens, des images et des mots à l'échelle du monde contemporain.

About the Author

Márcia Arbex-Enrico, PhD, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, is Professor of Comparative Literature and French Literature at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), CNPq Researcher and Translator. She has published monographs and many essays on word and image studies, intermediality, collage, including Sobrevivências da escrita na imagem: Michel Butor e as artes (2020).

Biagio D'Angelo, Ph.D. (1998), RGGU - Russian University for Humanistic Studies, Moscow, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Theory of Art at University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on literature and art, including Espaces. Topographies et imaginaires (2018).

Camila Augusta Pires de Figueiredo, Doctor in Literary Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, is Vice-Director of UFMG University Press. She has published on intermediality, transmedia, and adaptations, including essays in Adaptation and Illustration (2024) and Truth Claims Across Media (2024).

Georg Otte is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Letters, UFMG. His publications focus on the works of Walter Benjamin and Hans Blumenberg, including Impressão e Expressão: formas do imediato de Walter Benjamin (2022).

Miriam de Paiva Vieira, Doctor in Literary Studies (UFMG), Professor at the Department of Letters, Arts and Culture, Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil. Coeditor of The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality (2024).