Kennedy / Unknown / Meek Ekphrastic encounters

New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2580-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. It seeks to complicate the traditional model of ekphrasis as a form of paragone (competition), and proposes a more reciprocal model that involves an encounter or exchange between word and image.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Kennedy, David

Meek, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: from paragone to encounter – David Kennedy and Richard Meek
Part I: Early modern encounters
1 ‘Lamentable objects’: ekphrasis and historical materiality in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece – Rachel Eisendrath
2 ‘Fabulously counterfeit’: ekphrastic encounters in Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy – Richard Meek
3 ‘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 Lawrence
Part II: Nineteenth-century encounters
5 Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and Laocoön digressions in the novel – Catriona MacLeod
6 The face of Beatrice Cenci – Stephen Cheeke
7 Mirroring naturalism in word and image: a critical exchange between Emile Zola and Edouard Manet – Lauren S. Weingarden
8 Close encounters of the third kind: Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ – Jane Thomas
Part 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. Heffernan
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meek Richard:
Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of HullDavid Kennedy was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull

Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull