Seeing Things: Vision, Perception and Interpretation in French Studies

by Simon Kemp (Editor), Simon Kemp (Editor), Libby Saxton (Editor)

Seeing Things explores all matters visual within the field of French studies. It brings together writings on French literature, philosophy and the visual arts, both from established critics and the new generation of young academics. From post-Freudian psychoanalysis through postmodernist theory to cognitive science, questions of vision have gained an unprecedented prominence in contemporary discourse. Seeing Things looks at the intersections of these questions with the concerns of Romance studies, and discovers fertile new territory in the crossover. Whether investigating the correspondences between photography and the novel, philosophy and perception, or time and film, the studies included here offer a radical exploration of western culture’s kaleidoscope of images.

287 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 2002

About the author

Simon Kemp is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His research interests include economic psychology, history of psychology, memory, and earthquake research.