Ekphrastic encounters (eBook, ePUB)

New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts
Redaktion: Kennedy, David; Meek, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. This 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526125811
• Artikelnr.: 55324574

Autorenporträt

David Kennedy was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: from paragone to encounter - David Kennedy and Richard Meek
Part I: Early modern encounters 1 'Lamentable objects': ekphrasis and
historical materiality in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece - Rachel
Eisendrath 2 'Fabulously counterfeit': ekphrastic encounters in Kyd's The
Spanish Tragedy - Richard Meek 3 'Art indeed is long, but life is short':
ekphrasis and mortality in Andrew Marvell - Keith McDonald 4 'The Painter
has made a finer Story than the Poet': Jonathan Richardson's ekphrastic
'Dissertation' on Poussin's Tancred and Erminia - Jason Lawrence Part II:
Nineteenth-century encounters 5 Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and
Laocoön digressions in the novel - Catriona MacLeod 6 The face of Beatrice
Cenci - Stephen Cheeke 7 Mirroring naturalism in word and image: a critical
exchange between Emile Zola and Edouard Manet - Lauren S. Weingarden 8
Close encounters of the third kind: Hamo Thornycroft's The Mower and
Matthew Arnold's 'Thyrsis' - Jane Thomas Part III: Modern and postmodern
encounters 9 An artist of the bizarre: Stanley Spencer's 'ordinary'
ekphrases - Liliane Louvel 10 The graphics of ekphrastic writing: Raymond
Pettibon's drawing-writing - Tilo Reifenstein 11 Ekphrasis/exscription:
Jean-Luc Nancy on thinking and touching art - Johanna Malt 12 On gazers'
encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, 'iconotexts' - Claus Clüver
Afterword - James A. W. Heffernan Index