Table des matières

Peter Vernon

Introduction

Nancy Pedri

Showing the Places you Tell: Visual Evidence in Travel Writing

• I. Evidential Truth
• II. Historical Accuracy
• III. Cartographie Evidence
• IV. Photographic Evidence

Jennifer Kilgore

Framing Charles Peguy: Visualization in Geoffrey Hill’s The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy

Claudine Raynaud

Textual and Visual Selves in Autobiographical Writing

• I. The body of writing and the photograph (of the body)
• II. Barthes’s stubbornness of the referent
• III. Cixous’s genealogical legends and Allison’s violence of the banal
• IV. The irreducible and the bed of the blood

Elisabeth Sakellaridou

The Seen and the Off-Scene: Staging Gender, Race and Sexuality

Hélène Catsiapis

The Queen's Christmas Messages

• I- History of the Royal Christmas messages
• II- Place of the Christmas broadcast among the Queen's other speeches in the year
• III- Permanent features of the Christmas television broadcasts
• 1° Sameness and variety of the Christmas messages
• 2° All messages seen to be built on one specific theme
• 3° Visual interpretation
• 4° Synthetic plan for all Christmas messages
• 5° The three key words to be found in all Christmas messages are "Family, Commonwealth, Christmas
• 6° The very first and last images have a special importance in all messages and must be analyzed carefully for they "speak" more than anything else.
• 7° The last image of the Christmas broadcast since 1986 is always the Queen's flag floating in the wind to the music of God Save the Queen. This very last image is of utmost importance as it signifies that the institution prevails upon the person of the monarch
• IV-Evolution of the Christmas messages over the years
• 1° Change of terminology and style
• 2° The Queen's quiet revolution
• The Queen's Christmas messages are of great significance
• 1^o-They express some very important constitutional points
• 2°- They are a plea in the defense of the monarchy which, in a way, they seem to advertise
• 3° They represent for the Queen her only freedom of speech
• 4°- They reveal the Queen's personality

Ewa Keblowska-Lawniczak

Seeing Things and Being Seen: Distorted Scopic Regimes in Some Modern Plays

Derval Tubridy

Loose Signatures: Samuel Beckett and the Livre D'artiste

Soňa Nováková

The Pleasures of the Eye: Landscapes of otherness in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian

Tatjana Jukic

Dressed up to the Eyes: The Optics of the Pre-Raphaelite Keats

Notes on Contributors