Ekphrasis : The Illusion of the Natural Sign /
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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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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).