Ekphrastic encounters : New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Meek, Richard, 1975- (Editor ), Kennedy, David, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ekphrasis.
Art and literature.
20.09 art in relation with other areas of culture: other.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: from paragone to encounter / David Kennedy and Richard Meek
  • Part I: Early modern encounters : 1. 'Lamentable objects': ekphrasis and historical materiality in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece / Rachel Eisendrath
  • 2. 'Fabulously counterfeit': ekphrastic encounters in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy / Richard Meek
  • 3. 'Art indeed is long, but life is short': ekphrasis and mortality in Andrew Marvell / Keith McDonald
  • 4. 'The Painter has made a finer Story than the Poet': Jonathan Richardson's ekphrastic 'Dissertation' on Poussin's Tancred and Erminia / Jason Lawrence
  • Part II: Nineteenth-century encounters : 5. Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and Laocoön digressions in the novel / Catriona MacLeod
  • 6. The face of Beatrice Cenci / Stephen Cheeke
  • 7. Mirroring naturalism in word and image: a critical exchange between Émile Zola and Édouard Manet / Lauren S. Weingarden
  • 8. Close encounters of the third kind: Hamo Thornycroft's The Mower and Matthew Arnold's 'Thyrsis' / Jane Thomas
  • Part III: Modern and postmodern encounters : 9. An artist of the bizarre: Stanley Spencer's 'ordinary' ekphrases / Lilliane Louvel
  • 10. The graphics of ekphrastic writing: Raymond Pettibon's drawing-writing / Tilo Reifenstein
  • 11. Ekphrasis/exscription: Jean-Luc Nancy on thinking and touching art / Johanna Malt
  • 12. On gazers' encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, 'iconotexts' / Claus Clüver
  • Afterword / James A.W. Heffernan.

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