The Topoi of Visuality

The Patterns of Seeing and Being Seen across Genres and Cultures

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Extent: 328 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: ICONIC

Language: English

Hardback (Forthcoming)

(November 2026)

ISBN: 9782503625324

Price: $100.00

Exploring the intertwined traditions of ekphrasis and locus amoenus from antiquity to modernity, The Topoi of Visuality brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to reveal how literature constructs acts of seeing and being seen across genres, cultures, and historical contexts, offering a new comparative framework for understanding the poetics and politics of visuality.