The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust VisuallyHardcover, 1 July 1997

The clear-cut distinction between texts (literature) and images (art) has been challenged by a culture saturated with television and by an increased emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. Mieke Bal suggests that we can now see how some of the great writers and artists of the past overstepped the boundaries of the media in which they worked. Here, she studies as an example of this process a great literary work that cannot be confined to language alone.