Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural SignJohns Hopkins University Press, 1992 - 292 Seiten 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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... term enargeia so that it may also cover the tradition emerging from this second use of the term by Longinus . After all , enargeia is supposed to refer to the intensity of visual representation rather than to the intensity of emotional ...
... term " sympathy " ( the term " empathy ' ' is not invented until more than a century later as an English translation of the German Einfühlung ) . 10 Through sympathy , Burke tells us , " we enter into the concerns of others ; . . . are ...
... term but also as a dis- cipline governed by the term wedded the study of the arts at once and for good to the perceptual and , more broadly , to the sensuous . Conceiving aesthetics as the science of perception ( or of " sensuous ...
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Dramatic Representation | 30 |
Verbal Representation | 66 |
Natures Transcendence | 92 |
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