Designed for well-qualified arts graduates (or those who have attained an equivalent level in European or other institutions), this course is an introduction to the study of the relationship between the textual and the visual in literature, the arts and other areas of cultural expression. The course includes an introduction to historical bibliography and book production (setting type by hand and printing). The focus of the course is 19th and 20th-century France.

The course is run jointly by

• the French Department, Trinity College, Dublin


• the UFR Sciences des Textes et Documents and the Centre d'étude de l'écriture et de l'image (associated with the CNRS) at Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot and


• the Département de l'Histoire de l'art et de l'archéologie at Université Paris X - Nanterre.

The Faculty of Letters (French Department and Word & Image Studies) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the English Department (UFR d'Études anglophones) at Université Paris 7 are also associated with the course.