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Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath al-Alwi’s Ships
This chapter brings a material rhetorics approach to artwork by Moath al-Alwi. The chapter does a deep reading of the signification of the Joint Task...
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Sounding the Word
Chapter 3, ‘Sounding the Word’, addresses the verbal arts, both oral and written. What are the sources of the power and precision of words? How is a...
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Looking Beyond the Frame
Chapter 8, ‘Looking beyond the Frame’ asks what practical effects the arts can or should have on our understanding of the world and on how we lead...
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Seeing Through Conventions
Chapter 6, ‘Seeing Through Conventions’, examines how all artistic representation is governed by conventions—material, ideological or thematic—which...
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Introduction: The Circulation of Images—Illustration, Adaptation and the Global Turn
The introduction maps out the theoretical advances in and crossovers between adaptation studies, illustrations studies and intermediality in order to...
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Adapting Novel Illustrations for the Almanac: Text/Image Relations in Chodowiecki’s Illustrations for Rousseau’s Julie
This chapter focuses on Chodowiecki’s illustrations for Rousseau’s bestselling novel Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (1761), which appeared in the...
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“Alternative Dickens”: The Graphic Adaptation of the Inimitable in The New Yorker
The original illustrations to Dickens’s serial fiction are well-known to scholars and general readers, but there has been little sustained discussion...
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Ekphrasis, Illustration, and Adaptation: Annie Ernaux’s Intermedial Autobiographic and Photographic Production
As a genetic critic interested in word and image relationships in the illustrated manuscripts of various writers and artists, I find myself...
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Ad-app-tive Illustration: Or, the Uses of Illustration
This chapter discusses how the interactive illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland made possible by mobile software application...
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Illustration and Adaptation in the Balbussos’ Pride and Prejudice (2013) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2012)
Illustration has a varied life as a mode of adaptation. From frontispieces that concentrate an entire work into a single visual to magazines and...
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Carlo Scarpa in Palermo: Vladimir Zoric and the Restoration Experiences at Palazzo Abatellis and the Transformations of the Steri
Scarpa's architecture in Palermo has undergone several maintenance or restoration interventions over time. Scarpa works with great attention to the...
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“Lessico Famigliare”: Toward a New Paradigm of Spontaneous Rural Architecture in North-Western Sicily: From Historical Testimony of Peasant Culture to Sustainable Resource
The research proposes a reinterpretation of so-called spontaneous architectures (Rudofsky, 1964) in the Sicilian north-western countryside,...
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Questioning the Rural Architectural Typology and Its Transmission Due to Reuse: The Cases of Guest Houses in Bağlıköy/Ampelikou
Rural architecture is the built reflection of the lifestyle, economy, and culture of a rural society and it is also shaped by the environmental...
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Hebron’s Old Markets Among Past and Present
The Islamic State has concerned with market planning to achieve economic, social, and environmental sustainability features. The traditional markets...
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The Recovery of Coastal Flooding Archaeological Heritage Sites Through Nature-Based Solutions and Community Needs
Flood phenomena linked to anthropogenic actions, such as large-scale urbanization, massive tourist flows and climate change are some of the main...
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Design Technics for the Intervention on Architectural Heritage. The Case of the Partial Recomposition of Vaulted Spaces
This article aims to research the design techniques used in heritage works publicly recognised through awards and publications. Specifically, it...
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Virtual Museumification to Protect and Transmit the Paleo-Christian Heritage of the East Algerian Region
The conservation of monuments and ruins, which are already exposed in their sites, needs a huge budget and skilled labor. How can we transmit this...
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Life and History: Challenges on Urban Conservation and a Possible Solution: Case Studies on Historic Quarters in Bei**g and Shanghai, China
In recent decades, the redevelopment process in Chinese cities has challenged historic quarters. While conservation awareness rises, scholars started...
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Multidimensional Approach to Evaluation of Weathering Degree of Lower Plant on Stone Cultural Heritage in Cambodia
The West Gate of Nokorbachey Temple, built by King Jayavarman VII in the Angkor period (12–13 c), is decorated with bas-relief on medium-grained...
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A Model of Functional-Spatial Transformation of Medieval Urban Structure. The Example of Krosno in the Subcarpathia in Poland
Cities of historical origin are a key element of European cultural heritage. Currently, they face a socio-economic crisis and spatial degradation....