@article {Chaplin:2006:1472-586X:42, title = "The convention of captioning: W. G. Sebald and the release of the captive image", journal = "Visual Studies", parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/rvst", publishercode ="routledg", year = "2006", volume = "21", number = "1", publication date ="2006-04-01T00:00:00", pages = "42-53", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "1472-586X", eissn = "1472-5878", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rvst/2006/00000021/00000001/art00004", doi = "doi:10.1080/14725860600613212", author = "Chaplin, Elizabeth", abstract = "Thesis 1: That the treatment of images in social science texts is stuck in a positivist/modernist time warp, and is out of sync with the present cultural climate. Thesis 2: That the work of W. G. Sebald indicates how images may be more appropriately used in relation to words in postpositivist and postmodernist texts.", }