Groupe µ

Groupe µ is an interdisciplinary group working out of the Center of Poetic Studies at the University of Liege, in Belgium, formed in 1967. Members have included Francis Édeline, Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Jacques Dubois, Francis Pire, Hadelin Trinon and Philippe Minguet, with several other associate members. The University of Liège (ULg), in Liège in Belgium, is the major public university in the French-speaking part of Belgium. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

Some of their early work in the 1960s dealt with linguistically-oriented topics such as polysemous language, and the nature of synecdoche and metaphor. In the 1970s and 80s they worked on developing a theoretical approach towards visual rhetoric that involved classifying images according to their differences from plastic and iconic norms. Look up synecdoche in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In language, a metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin rhetorical trope) is defined as a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects. ... Visual rhetoric is the fairly recent development of a theoretical framework describing how visual images communicate, as opposed to aural or verbal messages. ...

Bibliography

Rhétorique generale. (1970)

Rhétorique de la poésie: lecture linéaire, lecture tabulaire. (1977)

Collages (1978)

Plan d une rhétorique de l image. (1980)

Traite du signe visuel: Pour une rhetorique de l'image (1992)