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Ekphrastic encounters : new interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts /
This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to complicate this critical paradigm and propos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Manchester scholarship online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from paragone to encounter; Part I: Early modern encounters; 'Lamentable objects': ekphrasis and historical materiality in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece; 'Fabulously counterfeit': ekphrastic encounters in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy; 'Art indeed is long, but life is short': ekphrasis and mortality in Andrew Marvell; 'The Painter has made a finer Story than the Poet': Jonathan Richardson's ekphrastic 'Dissertation' on Poussin's Tancred and Erminia; Part II: Nineteenth-century encounters
- Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and Laocoön digressions in the novelThe face of Beatrice Cenci; Mirroring naturalism in word and image: a critical exchange between Émile Zola and Édouard Manet; Close encounters of the third kind: Hamo Thornycroft's The Mower and Matthew Arnold's 'Thyrsis'; Part III: Modern and postmodern encounters; An artist of the bizarre: Stanley Spencer's 'ordinary' ekphrases; The graphics of ekphrastic writing: Raymond Pettibon's drawing-writing; Ekphrasis/exscription: Jean-Luc Nancy on thinking and touching art
- On gazers' encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, 'iconotexts'Afterword; Index