The Poetics of Description
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The Poetics of Description

Imagined Places in European Literature

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The Poetics of Description

Imagined Places in European Literature

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
9780230601888
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Poetics of Description Imagined Places in European Literature
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place
  7. Chapter 1 As If Present: Classical Ecphrasis
  8. Chapter 2 Unity, Form, and Figuration
  9. Chapter 3 A Sylvan Scene
  10. Chapter 4 The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque
  11. Chapter 5 The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth’s Antipicturesque Excursion
  12. Chapter 6 “Till the Place Became Religion”: Byron’s Coliseum
  13. Epilogue: Immediacy
  14. Notes
  15. Works Cited
  16. Index