Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mary Shaw
Introduction: Marija Dalbello
Buzz Spector, Encyclopaedia
Contours of Meaning in the Scripts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Western Epistemology and the Phonetic Issue
Arts in Letters: The Aesthetics of Ancient Greek Writing
Letter and Spirit: The Power of the Letter, the Enlivenment of the Word in Medieval Art
Visible and Invisible Letters: Text versus Image in Renaissance England and Europe
Illegibility and Grammaphobia in Paul Et Virginie
Written on the Page
Kafka
Face to Face
As If
Sur-face Text-ure
Un coup de dés and La Prose du Transsibérien: A Study in Contraries
Mathematics for "Just Plain Folks": Allegories of Quantitative and Qualitative Information in the Habsburg Sphere
Beneath the Words: Visual Messages in French Fin-de-Siècle Posters
How Do You Pronounce a Pictogram?: On "Visible Writing" in Comics
Inviting Words into the Image: Multiple Meanings in Modern and Contemporary Art
Color Writings: On Three Polychrome Texts
Joyc-aean
A Rose Is...
Kafka-esque
Actual Words of Art
The Figurative and the Gestural: Chinese Writing According to
Marcel Granet
Michaux: To Be Read? To Be Seen?
Reading the Alhambra
Catastrophe Writings: In the Wake of September 11
...visible, legible, illegible: around a limit...
Sttmnt
Colloquium #1 (Picture Puzzles)
Colloquium #2
Colloquium #3
Colloquium #4
Notes on Contributors
Index