W. J. T.

Mitchell

William John Thomas Mitchell (born March 24, 1942) Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Prag-
known as W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnel- matism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985. pbk.
ley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art ISBN 978-0-226-53227-1
History at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor
The Politics of Interpretation. Chicago: U of
of Critical Inquiry, and contributes to the journal October.
Chicago P, 1983. ISBN 978-0-226-53219-6
His monographs, Iconology (1986) and Picture Theory
(1994), focus on media theory and visual culture. He On Narrative. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
draws on ideas from Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx to ISBN 978-0-226-53217-2 review: JSTOR 676084
demonstrate that, essentially, we must consider pictures from American Anthropologist
to be living things. His collection of essays What Do Pic- The Language of Images. Chicago: U of Chicago P,
tures Want? (2005) won the Modern Language Associa- 1980. pbk. ISBN 978-0-226-53215-8
tion's prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize in 2005.[1]
In a recent podcast interview Mitchell traces his inter- Blakes Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Po-
est in visual culture to early work on William Blake, and etry. Princeton: Princeton UP. 232 pp. 112 plates,
his then burgeoning interest in developing a science of 1978.
images.[2] In that same interview he discusses his ongo-
ing eorts to rethink visual culture as a form of life and
in light of digital media. 1.2 Essays and other short works
Bhabha, Homi, and W. J. T. Mitchell. Edward
Said: Continuing the Conversation. Critical In-
1 Bibliography quiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005): 365-529.
Mitchell, W. J. T. Edward Said: Continuing the
1.1 Books Conversation. Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter,
2005): 365-370.
Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture and Me-
dia Aesthetics. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2015. Secular Divination: Edward Saids Humanism.
ISBN 978-0-226-23133-4 Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005): 462-471.
The Future of Criticism-A Critical Inquiry Sym-
Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the posium. Critical Inquiry 30, no. 2 (Winter, 2004):
Present. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2011. ISBN 324-483.
978-0-226-53259-2
Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils,
With Mark B. N. Hansen. Critical Terms for Media Totems, and Images. in Things., Edited by Bill
Studies. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2010. ISBN Brown. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2004.
978-0-226-53254-7
The Commitment to Form; Or, Still Crazy After
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of all these Years. PMLA: Publications of the Modern
Images. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2005. ISBN Language Association of America 118, no. 2 (Mar,
978-0-226-53245-5 2003): 321-325.
Remembering Edward Said. Chronicle of Higher
The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a
Education 50, no. 7 (Oct 10, 2003): B10-B11.
Cultural Icon. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 1998.
ISBN 978-0-226-53204-2 The Serpent in the Wilderness: Space, Place, and
Landscape in the Eighteenth Century. in Acts of
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Repre- Narrative., Edited by Carol Jacobs, Henry Sussman.
sentation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994. ISBN Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2003.
978-0-226-53232-5
The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago: U of Reproduction. Modernism/Modernity 10, no. 3
Chicago P, 1986. pbk. ISBN 978-0-226-53229-5 (Sept, 2003): 481-500.

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Chaosthetics: Blakes Sense of Form. Huntington Space, Ideology, and Literary Representation.
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Visible Language: Blakes Wond'Rous Art of Writ- Mitchell, W. J. T., Louis A. Renza, and (reply).
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Edited by Morris Eaves, Michael Fischer. Ithaca: Time, Image, Sign: Essays on Literature and the Vi-
Cornell UP, 1986. sual Arts., Edited by James A. W. Heernan. New
York: Peter Lang, 1987.
The Politics of Genre: Space and Time in Lessings
Laocoon. Representations 6, (Spring, 1984): 98- Mitchell, W. J. T., and Gabriele Schabacher. Der
115. Mehrwert Von Bildern. in Die Addresse Des Medi-
ums., Edited by Stefan Andriopoulos, Gabriele Sch-
What is an Image?" New Literary History: A Jour- abacher, Eckhard Schumacher, Bernhard Dotzler,
nal of Theory and Interpretation 15, no. 3 (Spring, Erhard Schttpelz and Georg Stanitzek. Cologne,
1984): 503-537. Germany: DuMont, 2001.
Metamorphoses of the Vortex: Hogarth, Turner, Mitchell, W. J. T., and Nadine Strossen. A Re-
and Blake. in Articulate Images: The Sister Arts sounding Rock in Flight. Chronicle of Higher Ed-
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Wendorf. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.
Mitchell, W. J. T., and Ilse Utz. Postkoloniale Kul-
Critical Inquiry and the Ideology of Pluralism. tur, Postimperiale Kritik. Neue Rundschau 107,
Critical Inquiry 8, no. 4 (Summer, 1982): 609-618. no. 1 (1996): 20-25.
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3 (Fall, 1982): 410-416. and gloss). An Interview with Orrin N. C. Wang.
in U of Maryland, College Park, MD Pagination:
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Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General The-

ory. Critical Inquiry: A Voice for Reasoned Inquiry 2 See also
into Signicant Creations of the Human Spirit 6,
(1980): 539-567. List of thinkers inuenced by deconstruction
Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General The-
ory. Critical Inquiry 6, no. 3 (Spring, 1980): 539-
567. 3 References
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Style as Epistemology: Blake and the Movement 4 External links

Toward Abstraction in Romantic Art. Studies in
Romanticism 16, (1977): 145-164.
W.J.T. Mitchells Home Page
Mitchell, W. J. T., and Gerald Gra. Intellectual
Politics and the Malaise of the Seventies. Salma-
gundi 47-48, (1980): 67-77.

Mitchell, W. J. T., and Paul Hernadi. On Narra-

tive.

Mitchell, W. J. T., and Winfried Menninghaus.

Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Ben-
jamin. Critical Inquiry 25, no. 2 (Winter, 1999).
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