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Image as Text in Leonard Woolf’s ‘Quack, Quack in Politics’

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Leonard Woolf’s Essay ‘Quack, Quack in Politics’, written in 1935, is a disquisition on the current political situation in Germany and Italy and a powerful defence of civilization against barbarism. The author illustrates his point with propaganda photographs of the Nazi and fascist leaders and photographs of Hawaiian war-gods. The images are thus mediated by language, the text carefully analysing the photographs and integrating their message into the textual demonstration. What is particularly interesting for the reader today is not so much Leonard Woolf’s text and its now hackneyed arguments nor the photographs of the leaders, now well-known and often commented upon or used to various purposes, but the triangular relationship established by the author between text, image and image. How the image is mediated by verbal language but also by the other image, another form of language; how one deconstructs the other; what it tells us about Nazism and Fascism’s hold on the visual image, about political pamphlets and art is what we mean to explore, especially in the light of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘The Leaning Tower’ and her own work on photography.
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Christine Reynier. Image as Text in Leonard Woolf’s ‘Quack, Quack in Politics’. Études britanniques contemporaines - Revue de la Société dʼétudes anglaises contemporaines, 2006, 31, ⟨10.4000/ebc.12285⟩. ⟨hal-04448697⟩
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