Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...

Acknowledgments Introduction: Iconology Part One: The Idea of Imagery 1. What Is an Image? Part Two: Image versus Text Figures of the Differences 2. Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Differences 3. Nature and Convention: Go...