UID:
almahu_9948236324202882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) :
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illustrations; digital file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526125804
Content:
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. 〈i〉Ekphrastic encounters〈/i〉 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.
Content:
"This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of 〈i〉ekphrasis〈/i〉: the verbal representation of visual art. In the past twenty five years numerous books and articles have appeared covering different aspects of ekphrasis, with scholars arguing that it is a fundamental means by which writers have explored the nature of aesthetic experience. However many critics continue to rely upon the traditional conception of ekphrasis as a form of 〈i〉paragone〈/i〉 (competition) between word and image. 〈i〉Ekphrastic encounters 〈/i〉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. The book brings together leading scholars working in the fields of literary studies, history of art, modern languages and comparative literature, and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. The chapters in the book are critically and methodologically wide-ranging; yet they share an interest in challenging the paragonal model of ekphrasis that has been prevalent since the early 1990s, and establishing a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter. This exciting and interdisciplinary collection will be of particular relevance to readers interested in the relationship between literature and the visual arts, as well as students and scholars of comparative literature, cultural studies, and history of art." -- Back cover.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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Includes index.
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Introduction: from 〈i〉paragone〈/i〉 to encounter / David Kennedy and Richard Meek -- part I: Early modern encounters -- 1. ‘Lamentable objects’: ekphrasis and historical materiality in Shakespeare’s 〈i〉The Rape of Lucrece 〈/i〉〈i〉 / Rachel Eisendrath -- 2. ‘Fabulously counterfeit’: ekphrastic encounters in Kyd’s 〈i〉The Spanish Tragedy 〈/i〉〈i〉 / 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 〈i〉Tancred and Erminia 〈/i〉〈i〉 / Jason Lawrence -- part II: Nineteenth-century encounters -- 5. Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and 〈i〉Laocoön〈/i〉 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 〈i〉The Mower〈/i〉 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.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kennedy, David. Ekphrastic encounters : new interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2019, ISBN 9781526125798
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526125804
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526125804/9781526125804.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526125804
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