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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 proposes a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between visual and textual cultures. 0This critical and theoretical shift demands a new form of ekphrastic poetics, which is less concerned with representational and institutional struggles, and more concerned with ideas of ethics, affect and intersubjectivity. Ekphrastic encounters brings together leading scholars working in the field of word-and-image studies and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. Taken together, the chapters establish a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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On gazers' encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, 'iconotexts'Afterword; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ekphrasis.
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Ekphrasis. |
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Art and literature.
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Art and literature. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kennedy, David, 1959- editor.
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Meek, Richard, 1975- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ekphrastic encounters. New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts. Manchester : Manchester University Press 2018 9781526125798 (OCoLC)1054396093 |
| ISBN |
9781526125804 (electronic book) |
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1526125803 (electronic book) |
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9781526125798 |
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152612579X |
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