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The poetics of description : imagined places in European literature /

The Poetics of Description tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses. The story continues with the European writers from Milton to Lord Byron who inherited this tradit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koelb, Janice Hewlett (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place -- "As If Present": Classical Ecphrasis -- Unity, Form, and Figuration -- A Sylvan Scene -- The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque -- The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth's Anti-picturesque Excursion -- "Till the Place Became Religion": Byron's Coliseum -- Epilogue: Immediacy. 
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