Ekphrastic encounters : new interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts /: new interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Kennedy, Richard Meek.
• Editors: Kennedy, David, 1959-; Meek, Richard, 1975-
• Contents: Introduction: from paragone to encounter – David Kennedy and Richard MeekPart I: Early modern encounters 1 ‘Lamentable objects’: ekphrasis and historical materiality in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece – Rachel Eisendrath2 ‘Fabulously counterfeit’: ekphrastic encounters in Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy – Richard Meek3 ‘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 LawrencePart II: Nineteenth-century encounters 5 Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and Laocoön digressions in the novel – Catriona MacLeod6 The face of Beatrice Cenci – Stephen Cheeke7 Mirroring naturalism in word and image: a critical exchange between Emile Zola and Edouard Manet – Lauren S. Weingarden8 Close encounters of the third kind: Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ – Jane ThomasPart 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. HeffernanIndex
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 809; Ekphrasis; Art and literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526125811; 1526125811
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