Detlev Gohrbandt Knihy

The study explores the interplay between text and illustrations in popular illustrated narratives from France, Germany, and Great Britain during the interwar period. It investigates how images enhance readers' understanding of texts and vice versa, emphasizing the knowledge required to interpret visual elements. Various types of images are analyzed in detail, revealing that reading words often triggers memories of images and colors, while viewing illustrations can elicit verbal responses. This relationship highlights the complex interaction between visual and textual literacy.

20th century literature has often been described as highly self-referential. This volume explores different concepts of self-referentiality through discussions of the works of Charles Tomlinson, John Berryman, W. S. Graham, Seamus Heaney, and black poetry. These explorations are framed by a survey of critical approaches to self-referentiality and an analysis of normative ideas in self-referential British and American poetry.

The perception of the world and the (illusionary) attempts at re-presenting it have been a long-standing concern of self-referential writing. Seeing and Saying , the follow-up volume to Self-Referentiality in 20th Century British and American Poetry , presents a range of essays dealing with the awareness in literature of the perceptional and representational hazard of saying the world of experience, sight and memory. The writers discussed range from the Renaissance to Post-Modernism, from Lady Mary Wroth to John Fowles.