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The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature / by Janice Hewlett Koelb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koelb, Janice Hewlett.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Literature, Modern.
- European literature.
- Poetry and Poetics.
- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Poetry and Poetics.
- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place; 1 As if Present: Classical Ecphrasis; 2 Unity, Form, and Figuration; 3 A Sylvan Scene; 4 The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque; 5 The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth's Antipicturesque Excursion; 6 ""Till the Place Became Religion"": Byron's Coliseum; Epilogue: Immediacy; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361389
- 9781281361387
- 1281361380
- 9780230601888
- 023060188X
- OCLC:
- 315770937
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