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The Poetics of Description: Imagined Places in European Literature

The Poetics of Description: Imagined Places in European Literature

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Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1349535575
ISBN13: 9781349535576
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 8 2007
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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