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Ekphrasis.
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Art and literature.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| 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 |
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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 |
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On gazers' encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, 'iconotexts'Afterword; Index |
| Alt author |
Kennedy, David, 1959- editor.
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Meek, Richard, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526125804 (electronic bk.) |
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1526125803 (electronic bk.) |
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1526141965 |
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9781526141965 |
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1526125811 |
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9781526125811 |
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9781526125798 |
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152612579X |
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