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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 209-216.

• Issue in Focus: Studies on Visual-Verbal Relationship • Previous Articles    

On the Word-Image Intertextuality and Its Aesthetic Characteristics of the Illustrated Book Big Breasts and Wide Hips

Wang Hongyue, Yang Chunlei   

  1. the School of Humanities, Zhejiang Normal University
  • Online:2016-03-25 Published:2017-09-28
  • About author:Wang Hongyue, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Zhejiang Normal University, with research interests in literary theory, aesthetics and contemporary literary criticism. Yang Chunlei is a graduate student in the School of Humanities, Zhejiang Normal University.

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Abstract: To examine the word-image intertextuality in the illustrated novels have become a new approach in literary studies, through which the relationship between illustrations and the novel itself is investigated. Mo Yan's novel Big Breasts and Wide Hips has been published with 24 pencil illustrations in 2003, and it can be seen that these illustrations are not randomly painted and inserted into the novel. The paper examines the dialogue and intertextuality between the text and the illustrations and analyzes the narrative modes of images and language.

Key words: Big Breasts and Wide Hips, dialogue, word-image intertextuality, word-image juxtaposition, image narrative