Publication

2019-02-01 - Manchester University Press

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10152612579X
  • ISBN-139781526125798
  • OCLC Control Number1082975997
  • Better World Books9781526125798
  • Open LibraryOL27752378M

Classifications

  • LCCPN56.E45
  • LCCPN56.E45 E37 2019

Description

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 proposes a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between visual and textual cultures. 0This critical and theoretical shift demands a new form of ekphrastic poetics, which is less concerned with representational and institutional struggles, and more concerned with ideas of ethics, affect and intersubjectivity. Ekphrastic encounters brings together leading scholars working in the field of word-and-image studies and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. Taken together, the chapters establish a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual artsHardcoverManchester University Press2019-02-01

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