The imaginary as a critical concept originated in the twentieth century and has been theorized in diverse ways. It can be understood as a register of thought; the way we interpret the world; the universe of images, signs, texts, and objects of thought. In this volume, it is explored as it manifests itself in encounters between the verbal and the visual. A number of the essays brought together here explore the transposition of the imaginary in illustrations of texts and verbal renditions of images, as well as in comic books based on paintings or on verbal narratives. Others analyze ways in which books deal with film or television and investigate the imaginary in digital media. Special attention is paid to the imaginary of places and the relationship of the imaginary with memory. Written in English and French, these contributions by European and American scholars demonstrate the various concerns and approaches characteristic of contemporary scholarship in word and image studies.

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INTRODUCTION SUMMARIES RÉSUMÉS TRANSPOSITIONS OF THE IMAGINARY IN WORD AND IMAGE: ILLUSTRATIONS TRANSPOSITIONS DE L’IMAGINAIRE EN TEXTE ET IMAGE: ILLUSTRATIONS Caroline Marie (Re-)Imaging the Imaginary of a Children's Story by Virginia Woolf: Nurse Lugton… through the Prism of Three Illustrators Eric T. Haskell Twentieth-Century Illustrations of Baudelaire's "La Mort des amants" Philippe Kaenel L’Illustration abstraite au XXe siècle: un paradoxe lessingien? TRANSPOSITIONS OF THE IMAGINARY IN WORD AND IMAGE: VERBALIZATIONS TRANSPOSITIONS DE L’IMAGINAIRE EN TEXTE ET IMAGE: VERBALISATIONS Nataliya Lenina L'Ekphrasis dans le roman de Georges Rodenbach Bruges-la-Morte Simone Grossman Textes et images dans L’Atelier des apparences Alexandra Catana The Play of Supports in the Poetics of Christian Dotremont RE-IMAG(IN)ING WORDS AND IMAGES IN THE COMIC BOOK RÉIMAGINER TEXTES ET IMAGES DANS LA BANDE DESSINÉE Lynn Bannon La Peinture par la bande: le cas de l’album citationnel Lucky Luke: l’artiste peintre France Lemoine The Representation of the Ineffable: Proust in Images Évelyne Deprêtre Une mélancolie mesurée: de Proust à Heuet Jean-Louis Tilleuil La Bande dessinee et ses imaginaires hegemoniques ou phagocytes: le cas de Gemma Bovery de Posy Simmonds THE IMAGINARY AND THE SCREEN: BOOKS, MOVIES, TELEVISION L’IMAGINAIRE ET L’ÉCRAN: LIVRES, FILMS, TÉLÉVISION Françoise Sammarcelli Haunted Places: Screening the Imaginary in A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This by Robert Coover Sonia Lagerwall Through the Looking-Glass with Chloe Delaume: The Imaginary of Television Read by the Autofictional Novel Arcana Albright To View or Not to View? Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Televisual Imaginary IMAGINARIES IN DIGITAL MEDIA IMAGINAIRES DANS LES MÉDIAS NUMÉRIQUES Jan Baetens et Fred Truyen Le Portrait de l’écrivain: une mythologie pérenne? Anaïs Guilet Vers une littérature cyborg: l’hybridation médiatique du texte littéraire Caroline Bem Text as Image in the Digital Age: A Formalist Reading of Polyvore Sets THE IMAGINARY AND MEMORY L’IMAGINAIRE ET LA MÉMOIRE Liliane Louvel Suaires blancs et noirs, imag(inair)es en negatif: quand l’image “revient” comme empreinte et trace Claire Gheerardyn Iconoclasme textuel: mettre en mots le monument pour mieux le briser Maryse Ouellet Pour un imaginaire du présentisme: images du temps chez Claudio Parmiggiani et Hannah Arendt THE IMAGINARY OF PLACES L’IMAGINAIRE DES LIEUX Jorgelina Orftla On Art History and Meta-Images: Art Reproductions, Site Photographs, and Cezanne's Art Nathalie Roelens La Ville et ses prosopopées fabuleuses Eleonora Diamanti Detournement et magnification de l’imaginaire urbain dans les discours sociaux CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTEURS INDEX