is a collection of essays by scholars from around the world exploring the complex interactions between literary texts and visual images (in the form of paintings, photographs, and films). Giving coherence to these wide-ranging contributions is the theme of frames, borders, and limits. The eighteen authors, each from a particular point of view, examine works that reach beyond the limits, both cognitive and expressive, of any single mode of expression.

The Editors: Leslie Boldt-Irons is Professor of French at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the English translator of Georges Bataille’s and has also edited a collection of essays on Bataille’s work. She has published articles on a variety of twentieth-century French authors and teaches courses on French literature, cinema, and culture and civilization. Corrado Federici is Professor of Italian at Brock University. He has translated several books from the original Italian, including Luciano Nanni’s , has co-edited , and has published articles and book chapters on modern Italian poets and novelists. Ernesto Virgulti is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Brock University, where he teaches Italian language, literature, and cinema. His publications include articles and essays on Boccaccio’s , medieval European narrative, literary semiotics and narratology, and, more recently, a critical edition of Luigi Pirandello’s .

Contents: David Escoffery: Dada Performance and the Rhetoric of Nonsense: Tearing Down the Fourth Wall at the Cabaret Voltaire – Gary Genosko: Phatic (Dys)functions: The Shifting Contour of the TV Screen – Elizabeth K. Menon: Web Installation Art, Interactivity and «User Connectivity» – Sarah Lippert: Gustave Moreau and the : A Painter’s Challenge to a New Breed of Art Critic – John Picchione: Poetry and Visual Practices in Italy: Aesthetic and Ideological Subversions – Karen Ware: Frank O’Hara’s Oranges: The Relations between Poetry, Painting and Painters – Lourdes Bates: Fantasies of Modernity in Mid-Century Mexico – Laurence Petit: «Truth in Framing»: Medusa’s Defeat or the Triumph of the «Framed» Self in A.S. Byatt’s – Gyllian Raby: From Pre-Luddites to the Human Genome Project: Smashing Frames in Shelagh Stephenson’s – Jaime Bihlmeyer: Novel, Script, Image: A Case Study of the Phallic (M)other in Mainstream Culture – Cy-Thea Sand: «Under the Promise of Bark»: Erotic Power in Emily Carr’s (1938-1939) – Cristina Santos: The Monstrous Representation of Women in the Mexican Cultural Imaginary – Maria Beaudoin: Creating a «Maxx»imum Narratology: , Comic Books, and Narrative Theory – Michela Meschini: Rewriting : Imagery and Textuality in Antonio Tabucchi’s – Christina Wallace: Intersecting Blake: Rereading – Faith Balisch: Lynn Johnston’s «Theratoons»: Extending the Limits of the Comic Strip – Patrick Lennon: Depiction and Destruction: W.G. Sebald’s Realism – Judith Levy: Between Presence and Absence: Caravaggio’s .