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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2015, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 89-94.

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The Category, Complexity, Starting Points and Methodology of Image Studies

Chen Jirong   

  1. the School of Foreign Languages, Liaoning Normal University (Dalian 116029, China)
  • Online:2015-03-25 Published:2015-06-17
  • About author:Chen Jirong, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Foreign Languages, Liaoning Normal University (Dalian 116029, China), with main research interests in imagology and translation studies.

Abstract: The development of imagology can be traced back to the study of literary imagery, comparative studies and iconology, which covers early research on literature and society, the study of image and illusion, and contemporary study of image and discourse. Imagology has developed through the three stages develop from literary history, poetics and power discourse, while the focus of its content balances between holistic analysis and textual studies, and its methodology makes use of the models of culture studies and also tries to highlight the relation between image construction and power discourse. Therefore, the remarkable aspect to be noted in image studies is the topological nature of the categories, complexity, starting points and methods in imagology.

Key words: image studies, category, complexity, starting points and methods