Description
Summary: | Essays exploring relationship between visual and literary arts. Revives and expands on age-old concept of ekphrasis, referring to rhetorical exercise offering dramatic description of work of art. Pairs and compares writers with artists of many cultures and time periods: William Carlos Williams and Seamus Heaney with Brueghel; Margaret Atwood with Manet; Joseph Cornell with Octavio Paz and Elizabeth Bishop; and others.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277). |
ISBN: | 9786077588795 6077588792 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 5, 2015). |