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In its broadest present-day usage, the term 'ekphrasis' means description, and in a rhetorical sense, is a description of persons, actions, times, places, and seasons, ' ... More
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In 11 essays from a June/July 2003 seminar at the University of Chicago, American scholars of literature and art explore the ancient rhetorical technique of ekphrasis in the ... More
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Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book ... More
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Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition examines representative texts and the theories of realism upon which they are based. It studies the foundations of these theories ... More
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Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman ... More
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This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of ... More
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This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, ... More
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