Visuality and its problems in Anglo-American criticism of late XX - early XXI century

The article focuses on theoretical considerations of visual image, visual perception and visuality in a number of literary and art studies and conceptions of psychology of perception in Anglo-American tradition. It argues for the topicality of visuality investigation in literary studies as a part of the general «pictorial turn» across disciplines and suggests the sources of problems and conceptual differences inherent in such approach.