The poetics of sight /

"In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida" --

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harvey, John, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Cultural interactions ; 25.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introductory: sight, the mind's eye and art
  • Shakespeare pictures
  • A poetry of vision: William Blake
  • Satire and sight
  • Bleak house to lighthouse: the optics of the novel
  • Metaphor and modernism
  • Note A: the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare
  • Note B: the writer as art-critic.