Originally published in 1992. What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? Murray Krieger develops a systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and ...
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Originally published in 1992. What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? Murray Krieger develops a systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and the two-thousand-year tradition they claim to culminate. Krieger focuses on ekphrasis-the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary-a form at least as old as its most famous example, the shield of Achilles verbally invented in the Iliad. He argues that the "ekphrastic principle" has remained enduringly problematic in that it reflects the resistant paradoxes of representation in words. As he examines the conflict between the spatial and temporal, between vision-centered and word-centered metaphors, Krieger reveals how literary theory has been shaped by the attempts and the deceptive failures of language to do the job of the "natural sign."
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Fair. First Edition, 1992. 320 pages. Black cloth hardcover. No Dust Jacket. Stamp inside front cover / flyleaf. Very minor writing on 14 pages. 10 red index tabs (non-removable), on beginning page of each chapter / added by previous owner. No markings within actual chapters, only in foreward and on the first Title chapter page of each chapter. Since he published his wonderful 1967 essay on ekphrasis, or the literary depiction of visual art, Krieger has been wrestling with the larger implications of.
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Book. Octavo, x, xvii, 292 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine purple with white and black lettering. Exterior shows moderate wear including mild sunning to the spine, light finger marks and light wear to the head/tail edges. Boards show extremely light wear with faint sunning and minor edge wear. Text block has mild wear including slight age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column O, ND-O. 1388256. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact. Ownership inscription on first inside page. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Bindings firm, spine intact. Otherwise, in good overall condition. Publisher's note: What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words--can words--represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? After decades of reading and thinking about the nature and function of literary representation, Murray Krieger here develops his most systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and the 2, 000-year tradition they claim to culminate. Krieger focuses on ekphrasis--the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary--a form at least as old as its most famous example, the shield of Achilles verbally invented in the Iliad. He argues that the "ekphrastic principle" has remained enduringly problematic in that it reflects the resistant paradoxes of representation in words. As he examines the conflict between spatial and temporal, between vision-centered and word-centered metaphors, Krieger reveals how literary theory has been shaped by the attempts and the deceptive failures of language to do the job of the "natural sign." "What is being described in ekphrasis is both a miracle and a mirage: a miracle because a sequence of actions filled with befores and afters such as language alone can trace seems frozen into an instant's vision, but a mirage because only the illusion of such an impossible picture can be suggested by the poem's words. We may see it as the poem's miracle, and that seeing is our mirage. This peculiar--and paradoxical--jointly produced experience of ekphrasis allows it to function as the consummate example of the verbal art, the ultimate shield beyond shields." Size: 24.1 x 16.5 x 3.2 cm. xvii, 292 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry; Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics); ISBN: 0801842662. ISBN/EAN: 9780801842665. Add. Inventory No: 230325ROSL015033.
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