Ekphrasis : the Illusion of the Natural Sign

Ekphrasis : the Illusion of the Natural Sign / Murray Krieger ; emblems by Joan Krieger.

What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words--can words--represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? After decades of reading and thinking about the nature and function of literary representation, Murray Krieger here develops his most systematic theoretical statement out of answe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000 (Author)
Other Authors: Krieger, Joan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Subjects:
Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
Poetry > History and criticism.
Ut pictura poesis [Aesthetics].
ut pictura poesis.
Poetry
Ekphrasis
Ekfrasis.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Of Shields
  • 1. Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration
  • and Exasperation
  • of Ekphrasis as a Subject
  • 2. Representation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic
  • 3. Representation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic
  • 4. Representation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign
  • 5. The Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance
  • 6. Language as Aesthetic Material
  • 7. The Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism
  • 8. A Postmodern Retrospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic
  • Appendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited (1967).

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