The Poetics of Description
Format: Print Book
ISBN: 9781403974891
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This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.
Publication Year: 2006
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: H
Weight (Gram): 440