讲座摘要：
In response to W. J. T Mitchell’s diagnosis of a “pictorial turn” in the twentieth century (3), and a general culture of images that has proliferated in recent decades, this paper proposes several ways that selected contemporary novels have responded. It illustrates how such novels absorb visual encounters to such a degree that their narrative logic becomes predicated on the presence of visual images, exemplifying a deep intermedial integration of word and image. As Orhan Pamuk claims, of his own artistic evolution as a writer: “Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than “seeing the world with words” (ix). A saturation of images in the digital age has influenced writers to such a degree that their works have become akin to ‘seeing texts,’ or are possessed with what Alexandra Kingston-Reese terms “the peculiar language of sight” (8). This interdisciplinary analysis argues that the porous form of the novel has proven to be an eminently suitable place of cohabitation for the visual arts, and a form in which the continued, and deepening, significance of ekphrasis – for instance – is increasingly evident.
主讲人简介：
Neil Murphy is Professor of English at NTU Singapore, where he also holds the Toh Puan Mahani Idris Chair Professor of Humanities. He is the editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010), and has co-edited (with Keith Hopper) The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013) and a four-book series on the Irish writer, Dermot Healy. His monograph, John Banville (2018; new edition forthcoming January 2025), was published by Bucknell University Press and he has co-edited (with W. Michelle Wang and Daniel K. Jernigan) The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature (2021), and (with W. Michelle Wang and Cheryl Julia Lee) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art (2024). Forthcoming in 2026 is his co-edited (with Derek Hand and Kathleen Costello-Sullivan) Companion to Contemporary Irish Fiction (Syracuse Uni. Press). He is currently completing a monograph on Contemporary World Fiction and Art.