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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Koelb, Janice Hewlett (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Sujets:
Imaginary places in literature.
European literature > History and criticism.
Ekphrasis.
Setting (Literature)
Lieux imaginaires dans la littérature.
Littérature européenne > Histoire et critique.
Espace et temps (Littérature)
description (activity)
ekphrasis.
setting (surroundings)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
European literature
Imaginary places in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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