ekphrasis

At work in this ekphrasis is a subconscious interest in decorum and restraint, and a corresponding leeriness about aesthetic identification.

Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

While these examples suggest that in practice ekphrasis is not limited to one specific use, contemporary attitudes toward the term have grown out of a definition of it that emphasizes literary (poetic) representation — with all the ambiguities, tensions, and contradictions the notion entails.

Obama’s Inauguration Poem: Ekphrasis, Evoking pictures, swaying emotions, preparing expositions 2008

While these examples suggest that in practice ekphrasis is not limited to one specific use, contemporary attitudes toward the term have grown out of a definition of it that emphasizes literary (poetic) representation — with all the ambiguities, tensions, and contradictions the notion entails.

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I want to suggest, however, that in a certain sense all ekphrasis is notional, and seeks to create a specific image that is to be found only in the text as its "resident alien," and is to be found nowhere else.

Notes, Mitchell, "Ekphrasis and the Other" 1997

In an ekphrasis which itself describes a series of framed images, the author contrives no less than three levels of remove (actually, four, if we include the fact that the ekphrasis is used solely as a metaphor for De Quincey's own dream experiences); I quote only from the preface to his account: Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome,

Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

What is it in ekphrasis that makes it an object of utopian speculation, anxious aversion, and studied indifference?

Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

The female image of ekphrasis is not an object to be caressed and fondled with contemplative ambivalence like Keats's Urn, Stevens's Jar, or

Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

The first might be called "ekphrastic indifference," and it grows out of a commonsense perception that ekphrasis is impossible.

Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

It seems entirely fitting, then, that the canonical "origin" of classical ekphrasis is the description of Achilles 'shield in the 18th book of the Iliad.

Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

The relation of epic to ekphrasis is thus turned inside out: the entire action of the

Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

Each of the essays in this debut collection reads like a mini-memoir in ekphrasis, in which the author reflects on her experiences of young love, trauma, and transcendence through discussions of art and music.

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