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The Poetics of Description: Imagined Places in European Literature

The Poetics of Description: Imagined Places in European Literature

Loparo, Kenneth A.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1403974896
ISBN13: 9781403974891
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 8 2007
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.52 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
The Poetics of Description 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. The story continues with the European writers from Milton to Lord Byron who inherited this tradition and used it to describe places, both natural and man-made, to serve as figures for mind, memory, and creative perception. It comes to a surprising conclusion when, in the middle of the twentieth century, one prominent scholar's misunderstanding limited ecphrasis to descriptions of works of art, and what had begun as an ideal of immediacy was transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.

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