So Rich a Tapestry: The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies

Lewisburg, PA and London, England: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. Cloth, 402 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This interdisciplinary collection differs from other collections of essays on literature and the visual arts in its emphasis on the image as situated in cultural, as opposed to perceptual, contexts. Broadly speaking, the writers of these sixteen essays join those who, in a variety of fields, have been taking note of the ways in which communication relies on a matrix of social or cultural norms. From this point of view, cultural setting becomes not merely interesting background but intrinsic to comprehension." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Sibling rivalry in the arts family: the case of poetry vs. painting in the Italian Renaissance, by James V. Mirollo; More foolery from More?: John Donne's Lothian portrait as clue to his politics, by Ann Hurley; Alexander Pope and the disappearance of the beautiful, by Timothy Erwin; The "incomparable" Siddons as Reynolds's muse: art and ideology on the British stage, by Michael S. Wilson; Painting against poetry: Reynolds's Discourses and the discourse of Turner's art, by James A. W. Heffernan; The fragmentation of visionary iconography in Chaucer's House of fame and the Cloisters Apocalypse, by Robert Boenig The Medieval iconographic venacular, by Kate Greenspan; Looking and learning: gender, image, and text and the genealogy of the textbook, by Ruth Larson; Almayer's face: on "impressionism" in Conrad, Crane, and Norris, by Michael Fried; Reading maps, by Eileen Reeves; Themes of love and death in a reading of the carved ornament of a Puritan headboard, by James K. Kettlewell; Henry James circumvents Lessing and Derrida, by John W. Erwin; Milton and the mac: "inwrought with figures dim", by Ernest Gilman; Wrapping presence and bridging the cultural gap: the case of the Pont-Neuf, by Constance Sherak; The violence of public art: do the right thing, by W.J.T. Mitchell.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.