Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice / Ruth Webb.

This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its c...

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Main Author: Webb, Ruth, 1963-
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Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
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260 |a Farnham, Surrey ;  |a Burlington, VT :  |b Ashgate,  |c ©2009. 
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Contexts of Ekphrasis; 2. Learning Ekphrasis: The Progymnasmata; 3. The Subjects of Ekphrasis; 4. Enargeia: Making Absent Things Present; 5. Phantasia: Memory, Imagination and the Gallery of the Mind; 6. Ekphrasis and the Art of Persuasion; 7. The Poetics of Ekphrasis: Fiction, Illusion and Meta-ekphrasis; Conclusion; Appendix A: Translations; Appendix B: Subjects for Ekphrasis; Bibliography; Index. 
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