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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... Theoretical and Historical Approaches , ed . Frederick Burwick and Walter Pape ( Berlin and New York : Walter de Gruyter , 1990 ) . I am grateful for per- mission to use these materials in this substantially revised form . This book has ...
... theoretical dis- course about literature , metaphors shaped for many centuries mainly by a conception of the verbal arts that has them sharing char- acteristics of the plastic arts as arts of space and of visual appeal , but in the past ...
... theoretical and critical , of tropological and narratological cat- egories formerly reserved for the interpretation of poems . Might not these two cross - tendencies promise a negotiation of the issue ? Is not the obliteration of the ...
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Dramatic Representation | 30 |
Verbal Representation | 66 |
Natures Transcendence | 92 |
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