Western Literature and Visual Arts: An Interview with Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 1-15.

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Western Literature and Visual Arts: An Interview with Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Cheng Xin & Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Online:2020-12-25 Published:2021-02-05
About author:Cheng Xin is an associate professor at the School of; Studies, Shanghai International Studies University (Shanghai 200083, China). Her research interests are mainly in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English and American fiction and women's writing.Email: chengxin@shisu.edu.cn; Ruth Bernard Yeazell is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on the novel from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, gender and the history of sexuality, and the relation of literature to the visual arts.Email: ruth.yeazell@yale.edu
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“A Study of the Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction from the Perspective of New Materialism”(17BWW068) sponsored by The National Social Science Fund of China

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Abstract: Ruth Bernard Yeazell is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts, Sciences. Author of numerous books, articles, reviews, Professor Yeazell is an expert on the novel from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, the history of gender, sexuality, the relations of literature to visual arts. Her recent publications include Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art, Literature, Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting, the Realist Novel, Picture Titles: How, Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names. Picture Titles was listed as “One of The New Yorker’s ‘The Books We Loved in2015’.” Cheng Xin, while working as a Fulbright visiting researcher at Yale, interviewed Professor Yeazell on behalf of Foreign Literature Studies. This interview focuses on the pictorial turn, Western verbal, visual representations of the harem, the connection between Dutch painting, realism, the significance of picture titles, as well as approaches to teaching literature, visual arts

Key words: Western literature, art, verbal, visual

Cheng Xin & Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Western Literature and Visual Arts: An Interview with Ruth Bernard Yeazell[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2020, 42(6): 1-15.

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