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This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of __ekphrasis__: 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 __paragone__ (competition) between word and image. __Ekphrastic encounters__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 methodological

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Author

David Kennedy (editor), Richard Meek (editor)

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526141965

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Art, Literary Criticism