Product Description: Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using examples such as the pre-historic cave paintings of Lascaux, film versions of Frankenstein, the provocative photographs of Sally Mann, and the abstract canvases of Gerhard Richter, the volume illustrates how learning to decode the language of pictures resembles the process of learning to read...read more

Product Description: Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Through four successful editions, Writing: A College Handbook’s positive approach has not only empowered students to write effectively, it has challenged students to consider why good writing matters. The Fifth Edition builds on this emphasis, exemplifying in clear, engaging prose the skills that students need to communicate in a wide variety of rhetorical contexts...read more

Product Description: Succinct, user-friendly, and positive in its approach, Writing: A Concise Handbook is the perfect companion for any writer, in college and beyond. Chapters including "Ten Ways to Invigorate Your Style" and "Correcting Common Errors" provide essential tools for making one's writing engaging, persuasive, and clear...read more

Product Description: This handbook is a tool to help you write well. Easy to use and convenient to carry.Writing: A Concise Handbook is the only handbook that places equal emphasis on helping you strengthen your writing and on showing you how to correct (and, later, avoid) common errors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fourteen essays examine how the French Revolution has been represented in art, literature, and historical narratives from England, France, Germany, and the Caribbean.

Product Description: This collection of essays on works ranging from medieval illuminated manuscripts to the literature and Pop Art of our own time has a dual purpose. It aims not simply to make specific comparisons across the borderline between literature and the visual arts, but also to scrutinize the borderline itself, and specifically to question two basic assumptions...read more

Product Description: Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.