Ekphrastic encounters : new interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts

Ekphrastic encounters : new interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts / edited by David Kennedy and Richard Meek.

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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Other Authors: Kennedy, David, 1959- (Editor), Meek, Richard, 1975- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Manchester scholarship online.
Subjects:
Ekphrasis.
Art and literature.
ekphrasis.
20.09 art in relation with other areas of culture: other.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Art and literature
Ekphrasis
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Table of 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
  • 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
  • On gazers' encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, 'iconotexts'Afterword; Index

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