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Ekphrasis in American poetry : the Colonial Period to the 21st century / edited by Sandra Lee Kleppe.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Kleppe, Sandra Lee, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--History and criticism.
American poetry.
Ekphrasis.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (227 p.)
Place of Publication:
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Summary:
Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century provides a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of ekphrastic poetry, or poetry that engages in various ways with different types of visual art, including pictographs, paintings, moving panoramas, daguerreotypes, photographs, landscape, and more. The volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and that as many American men as women have produced work in this genre. The book opens with an overview chapter followed by an examination of American ekphrastic poems during th
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).
ISBN:
1-4438-8506-1
OCLC:
930993599

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