Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays On Literature And The Visual Arts

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. It seeks to complicate the traditional model of ekphrasis as a form of paragone (competition), and proposes a more reciprocal model that involves an encounter or exchange between word and image. -- .

• | Edited By: David Kennedy
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 05, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 152612579X
• | ISBN-13: 9781526125798