... or development and the borders of vision. The chapter studies the experience of the eye and the experience of the blind man in the next section, followed by a discussion of seeing beyond barriers. It also looks at the concept of altered vision, and observes that the visuality recorded in Wordsworth's poetry...

..., as well as less-well-known writers such as Charlotte Brooke and Ann Batten Cristall. There is also a chapter on the popular genre of improving tales for children by writers such as Barbara Hofland and Mary Sherwood. The author finds that, despite the nostalgia for a bardic age of inward vision, the chief...

...Based on extensive and ever expanding scholarship on nineteenth-century Western cultural practices and discourses, this chapter explores specific articulations of cinematic movement, mobile vision and subjectivity. It first considers how a linear, incremental and forward movement becomes a metaphor...

... inhabitants but also, and fundamentally, of the self. With markedly different aesthetics and production backgrounds, they articulate the relationship between travelled space and self-transformation in distinctive ways which traverse the spectrum of modern sensibility around mobile vision. activity↔passivity...

... to the losses of the War. Lawrence’s attention to a blind figure thrown upon his haptic resources is part of a broader interest evident in his poetry and travel writing as well as his novels, where the author makes the case for touch or bodily connection as more authentic and meaningful than vision. Lawrence...

... Tarnowsky Benjamin vision Romanticism Scobie A Taylor A J W Elgin Marbles Napoleon Rousseau Jean Jacques stasis Barnard John Shaw George Bernard aestheticism Apollo Belvedere Reynolds Joshua Winckelmann Johann Joachim Pre Raphaelites Ruskin John Morris Jane Rossetti Dante Gabriel Juno...

...This chapter brings into conversation Trevor Paglen’s understanding of photography in terms of ‘seeing machines’ with Zylinska’s work on nonhuman photography to probe the algorithmic aspect of perception and vision across apparatuses, species and time scales. The rationale behind this conversation...

... Ulysses Joyce Woolsey John M Bazin André Brewster David broadcasting Crary Jonathan Duchamp Marcel Eisenstein Sergei M ekphrasis verbal imitation of visual modes eye the Huhtamo Errki optical illusions visualisation Wells H G after images binocular vision ghosts magic lanterns Morus Iwan...

...This chapter examines the most convincing affinities in terms of Woolf and Heidegger’s understandings of Being-in-the-world. Drawing attention to Woolf and Heidegger’s respective notions of ‘moments of Being’ and ‘moments of vision’, the ways in which such moments are triggered by particular moods...

... explicitly instantiates the Foucauldian mythical experience of the ‘man born blind restored to light’. Thirdly, ‘actual’ blindness, which examines definitions of blindness as opposed to vision impairment. blindness cane visual aid Descartes René Diderot Denis Dioptrique Descartes Encyclopédie Diderot...

... scholar Jane Ellen Harrison, Orlando’s vision of the Greek landscape enacts a feminist transgression, Kolocotroni argues, at the same time as it problematically appropriates this space and the classical past. This chapter thereby highlights Orlando’s ambivalence as ‘emblem of an impossibility, a female...

... social order with a poetic, empirical vision of the physical universe – hence the two-part structure of her novel. By associating her text with the work of a prestigious, but blasphemous, classical writer, Woolf challenges male, idealist definitions of culture and civilization that underpin gender, class...

... discourse and of certain overlaps in Sufi vision and the new literary sensibility before exploring in detail the mystical content of two further works by Mahfuz. Hikayat Haratina (1975) is read as an inversion of the Sufi path and exploration of mysticism as a solution to social ills...

..., for as the actor auditions to play “the Moor” for a young, white director, overlaps appear between his experience and Othello’s. The chapter’s argument thus builds on the work of Peter Erickson and Margaret Jane Kidnie to contend that American Moor champions a turn to what “adaptive re-vision...

... vision iIllustration London The relationship between the arts underwent a profound transformation in the Romantic period. Under the influence of German idealist philosophy, music – elite instrumental music, in particular – took up a newly elevated position, celebrated for its purported power...

... A Joyce Ulysses Joyce flâneurs radio Volta Cinematograph ‘Cinematicity’ optical toys shadowgraphs magic lantern Chronophotography Panoramas persistence of vision early film Volta Cinematograph media-cultural imaginary By placing Joyce’s writing back into the context of nineteenth-century...

...–child relationship Žižek Slavoj ghost icon Nietzsche Friedrich Matisse Henri dance mask architecture Polke Sigmar religion Sorokin Vladimir pornography Zviagintsev Krichman Deleuze Bergson Flatness Movement Vibration Visualization Vision In his theory of cinema, Deleuze (2013...

... Tolstoy Moscow Eternity Sublime Multiplicity Vision In the previous chapters I demonstrated how subjectivity is brought into question by means of excessive and/or engulfing exteriority: the self-presence leads to either the dispersion of the subject or to its heterogeneous, multiple modelling...

.... The texts reviewed in this chapter are several versions of ‘the ḥadīth of the beatific vision’, ‘the ḥadīth of the sacrifice in favour of the believer’, and ‘the ḥadīth of the divine fingers’. The chapter combines literary analysis with a thorough reading...

...This chapter offers a combined literary-historical approach to ḥadīth al-ruʾya (‘the ḥadīth of the beatific vision’). The chapter examines the alleged origins of this ḥadīth in seventh century Medina, and follows the circulation of this text until...