W. J. T Mitchell

W. J. T. Mitchell, a literary critic, undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. In reverse historical order the author singles out four theorists, Nelson Goodman, Gombrich, Lessing, and Edmund Burke, to discuss the structural differences between text and image, eye and ear, nature and convention, and space and time. --From back cover.