Acknowledgments
Introduction
Buzz Spector, encyclopaedia
Contours of meaning in the scripts of ancient MesoAmerica: Western epistemology and the phonetic issue / Gordon Brotherston
Arts in letters: The aesthetics of ancient Greek writing / Alexandra Pappas
Letter and spirit: The power of the letter, the enlivenment of the word in medieval art / Cynthia Hahn
Visible and invisible letters: Text versus image in Renaissance England and Europe / Peter Stallybrass
Illegibility and grammophobia in "Paul et Virginie" / Lorraine Piroux
Written on the page / Jacques Neefs
Buzz Spector, Kafka
Face to face
As if
Sur-face text-ure
Un coup de dés & La Prose du Transsibérien: A study in contraries / Mary Shaw
Mathematics for "Just Plain Folks": Allegories of quantitative and qualitative information in the Habsburg sphere / Marija Dalbello
Beneath the words: Visual messages in French Fin-de-Siècle posters / Phillip Dennis Cate
How do you pronounce a pictogram? On "Visible Writing" in comics / François Cornilliat
Inviting words into the image: Multiple meanings in modern and contemporary art / Marilyn Symmes, with Christine Giviskos and Julia Tulovsky
Color writings: On three polychrome texts / Tiphaine Samoyault
Buzz Spector, Joyc-aean
A rose is ?
Kafka-esque
Actual words of art
The figurative and the gestural: Chinese writing according to Marcel Granet / Li Jinjia
Michaux: To be read. To be seen / Claude Mouchard
Reading the Alhambra / Richard Serrano
Catastrophe writings: In the wake of September 11 / Béatrice Fraenkel
-visible, legible, illegible- : Around a limit / Roxane Jubert
Sttmnt
Buzz Spector
Buzz Spector, Colloquium #1 (Picture puzzles)
Colloquium #2
Colloquium #3
Colloquium #4.