Image and Text Today

Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 16-23.

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Image and Text Today

J. Hillis Miller

Online:2019-08-25 Published:2022-05-18
About author:J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English Emeritus at the University of California Irvine. He has published many books and essays on 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup>-century literature and on literary theory. Communities in Fiction appeared in 2015 from Fordham University Press. Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, coauthored with Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook, appeared in 2016 from Open Humanities Press. An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China appeared in late 2015 from Northwestern UP. It gathers fifteen of the more than thirty lectures Miller gave at various universities in China between 1988 and 2012. A Chinese translation of his The Conflagration of Community appeared in 2019 from Nanjing University Press. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

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Abstract: An image is usually in one way or another a visual representation or “image” of something, as in “photographic image,” but sometimes an image may be a “stand alone,” a picture without any referent. A text is usually a set of meaningful words in comprehensible order. This essay investigates the effects on reading of recent media changes, especially ubiquitous digitalization. Examples of texts with images are drawn from Botticelli and Warhol. An argument is made for the need to transform so-called “rhetorical reading” in order to apply it to new digital combinations of text and image such as video games.

Key words: image, text, image and text, Botticelli, Warhol, rhetorical reading, digitalization, video games

J. Hillis Miller. Image and Text Today[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2019, 41(4): 16-23.

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