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The poetics of sight / John Harvey.
LIBRA PN53 .H38 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, John, 1942- author.
- Series:
- Cultural interactions ; v. 25.
- Cultural interactions : studies in the relationship between the arts ; volume 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and literature.
- Metaphor in literature.
- Metaphor in art.
- Visual communication.
- Visual perception.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 309 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bern : Peter Lang AG, [2015]
- Summary:
- "In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introductory: sight, the mind's eye and art
- Shakespeare pictures
- A poetry of vision: William Blake
- Satire and sight
- Bleak house to lighthouse: the optics of the novel
- Metaphor and modernism
- Note A: the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare
- Note B: the writer as art-critic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783034307239
- 3034307233
- OCLC:
- 891718685
- Publisher Number:
- 99963026991
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