https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog The home of academic content Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:10:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/11/21/a-specular-history-of-pmla-visual-cultures-and-literary-scholarship/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/11/21/a-specular-history-of-pmla-visual-cultures-and-literary-scholarship/#respond <![CDATA[Mark Byron]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[MLA]]> <![CDATA[Modern Language Association]]> <![CDATA[PMLA]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=56729 <![CDATA[The mutual gravitational pull of word and image is irresistible. In the late sixth century BCE Simonides of Ceos declared that “poetry is a speaking picture; painting a mute poetry,” and later the Roman poet Horace confirmed this equation in his formula “ut pictura poesis” (“as in painting, so in poetry”).…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/11/21/a-specular-history-of-pmla-visual-cultures-and-literary-scholarship/feed/ 0