Item Number: 149460 Title: Ekphrastic encounters : New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts Author: Kennedy, David ; Richard Meek (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781526125798 Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. 24cm., hardcover, 288pp., 32 b&w illus. Contents: 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. 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. 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 Cluver.
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