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Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign
by Krieger, Professor Murray
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0801842662
- ISBN 13
- 9780801842665
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The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-02-01. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xvii, 292 pages : illustrations, 24 cm. <br> What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words, can words, represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? After decades of reading and thinking about the nature and function of literary representation, Murray Krieger here develops his most systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and the 2,000-year tradition they claim to culminate. Krieger focuses on ekphrasis--the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary--a form at least as old as its most famous example, the shield of Achilles verbally invented in the Iliad. He argues that the "ekphrastic principle" has remained enduringly problematic in that it reflects the resistant paradoxes of representation in words. As he examines the conflict between spatial and temporal, between vision-centered and word-centered metaphors, Krieger reveals how literary theory has been shaped by the attempts and the deceptive failures of language to do the job of the "natural sign.
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- Title
- Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign
- Author
- Krieger, Professor Murray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0801842662
- ISBN 13
- 9780801842665
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1992-02-01
- X weight
- 22 oz
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