Abstract

PEREZ GRAS, María Laura. Imagology: The evolution of a discipline and its potential uses in current literature works. Enfoques [online]. 2016, vol.28, n.1, pp.9-38. ISSN 1669-2721.

Imagology is a discipline originated in Comparative Literature Studies that became eventually independent after defining its own object of study and methodology. This article will describe its evolution up to the present time to analyze its actual and potential uses in the theoretical and critical approaches to literature works. Literature often deals with difficulties in topics like identity, alterity, gender or human rights, that seem to request the aid of other fields, such as Psychology or Sociology. Nevertheless, imagology, born in the heart of Literature Theory, has proven to be adequate for the literary analysis of texts focused on these topics.

Keywords : Imagology; Identity; Alterity; Images; Literature.

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