The Poetics of Description Imagined Places in European Literature
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismPoetryModernEuropeanLanguage Arts & Disciplines
2007Book
Author(s)Janice Hewlett Koelb
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781403974891
LanguageEnglish
