Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms

Social theorists rightly interest themselves in the relationship between the way things are and the way we see and represent them (in language, images, rituals and so forth). This connection between seeing and saying lies at the heart of Barry Sandywell's ambitious Dictionary of Visual Discourse. Drawing on the rich tradition of social theory of Husserl and Bakhtin and Zizek and others, and associating his lexicon with the hyperreal interconnectedness of writers as various as Lem and Nabokov, Borges and Brillat‐Severin, Sandywell (a reader at the University of York in the UK) devises a dictionary of visual discourse that...