The theme of Knygotyra (Book Science), Volume 89, focuses on the correlations between image and text, and their relationship in books, manuscript texts, and print media across various historical periods. Research addressing a wide range of strategies for intertwining text and image is highly relevant: the transformation of texts into images (calligrams, shaped poetry, artificial poetry, carmina figurata), or conversely, how images can be textualized (e.g., rebuses), how texts can elucidate images, and so forth. Contemporary theories offer diverse ways to read the relationship between image and text, such as through "hybridization" or the inseparable bond between image and text, also known as "iconotext" (for instance, early modern emblem books or contemporary picture books, such as comic books). Contemporary theory also employs the concept of "intermediality," where one medium (e.g., graphic arts) is utilized within another (e.g., prose works). The foundation of these theoretical approaches lies in the endeavor to overcome the opposition between images and texts, and to look deeper into their relationship by transcending their apparent boundaries and axiological definitions.
The core problem of this volume is dedicated to the relationship between image and text.
Guest Editor: dr. Jolita Liškevičienė
Deadline for the submission of research articles in Lithuanian and English: December 1, 2026
The special volume of Knygotyra (No. 89) will be published in December 2027.