Laurie Edson, Reading Relationally: Postmodern Perspectives on Literature and Art, University of Michigan Press, 2001, 200 p.
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Reading Relationally looks at literary works alongside works of art to enrich our appreciation
of what texts do and how texts mean. Laurie Edson's fresh and provocative readings of a range
of literature and visual art shed new light on the contributions of writers and artists and the
resonances between their work.
Reading Relationally is grounded in poststructuralist theory, feminist theory, interdisciplinary
studies, and postmodern practice. It proceeds by a series of exemplary comparisons whose
purpose is to unsettle habitual, codified terms of analysis and to suggest alternative ways of
seeing, thinking, and organizing knowledge. The book explores reverberations between the
work of Marguerite Duras and Cindy Sherman; Francis Ponge and Rene Magritte; Mallarme,
Duchamp, and Calvino; Apollinaire and Picasso; Lautreamont and Dali; Rimbaud and Matisse;
and Duchamp, Miro, Apollinaire, and Lichtenstein.
Written in an accessible and lively style, this interdisciplinary study will interest general readers
as well as students and specialists in postmodernism and literary criticism, as well as those
interested in the relationships between literature and visual art.