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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Ekphrastic"”.
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Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory
"Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory" argues that the dream-vision and mystical-vision texts of the high and late Middle Ages are ekphrastic works. With their inclusion within the purview of criticism and theories of ekphrasis, new formal qualities of the …
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One virtue and a thousand crimes”: (Re-)writing narrative poetry, an ekphrastic approach
… close reading of the source texts, adopting an ekphrastic approach – the concept of responding to art with art. The intention of the exercise is to comment heuristically on the writing of a narrative poem and to explore the possibility of writing a lyric narrative poem, acknowledging that to …
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Equinoctial: an investigation of ‘the holographic’ for developing a new collection of ekphrastic poetry
… for holography as a new context for writing ekphrastic poetry which most usually refers to poetry written in dialogue with the visual. The scholarship of ekphrasis cites examples of poems written in response to painting, sculpture, photography and film but not to holography. This is …
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Pictures on the wall of my life : photographs to life writing to fiction, an ekphrastic journey
… the later drafts. The concluding chapter on ‘ekphrastic realism’ draws these strands together by making an attempt to situate my novel within the canonical intersection of ekphrasis and magical realism. These make a contribution to an understanding of the concept of ekphrasis by way of …
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Writing the Visual in "Baroni: un viaje" and Other Recent Work by Sergio Chejfec
… of writing affirms W.J.T. Mitchell's concept of ekphrastic hope. By examining ekphrastic passages in <em>Baroni: un viaje</em>, I study the effects of the ekphrastic encounter in the novel and move beyond the notion that ekphrasis represents a spatial fix or halt in the narrative.</p> <p>In the …
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,,Lässt sich aus diesem bilde wohl der charakter der person schliessen?” Ekphrastische strukturen und das frauenbild in Wilhem Meisters Lehrjahre, Die Leiden des Jungen Werther und Emilia Galotti
… Meisters Lehrjahre (1795). In these cases, the ekphrastic writing about a piece of art in literary texts functions as a verbal representation of an absent visual object. The thesis analyzes female portraits in terms of the beholder and the painted object, gender representation, and spatial and …
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Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art through Poetry: The Development and Implementation of an Abstract Ekphrasis
… the first chapter engages with a direct form of ekphrastic writing, where the poem and the work of art are simultaneously read and viewed by the audience. For this reason, artworks that are pivotal to the writing contained in Chapter One are reproduced within this chapter. Because Chapter Two and …
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Bindweed And Fire
… free-verse poetic sequence in three voices. In ekphrastic poems rich with private symbolism, the first voice attempts to refract through the prism of visual art the relationship between a father and son. Providing a counterpoint to the first, the second voice seeks to qualify, correct, and …
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The “Man Walks Outside Time Now”: Verbal Representations of Photographic Images in the Poems of Larry Levis
… and reconcile feelings of loss. Through the ekphrastic mode, Levis could juxtapose otherwise disparate images, manipulating their temporal and spatial relationships, to achieve what he conceived an authentic portrait of the human experience. The poet, through his verbal descriptions of …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
… ethic in postmodern poetics. Lehman follows the ekphrastic form, which associates a poem with a work of visual art, from his New York School predecessor Frank O’Hara. “The Breeders’ Cup” addresses Édouard Manet’s 1865 painting <em>Olympia </em>through ekphrasis, and the painting of a prostitute …
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Given: F(A Great Love + a Missing Body)
… math is positioned with the verse in the way an ekphrastic poem might be positioned next to the art upon which it is based. The connection and alienation of the form fractures the poem, but it also serves as a metaphor for the competing forces of two people in love. And the goal of each is …
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Sue
… 1990 album <em>Days of Open Hand</em> in the ekphrastic spirit. Thus, <em>Sue </em>is intended to contribute to and deepen the meaning of these other pieces of art while also forwarding its own unique perspectives on grief, language, and formal play.</p>
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The Cherry Orchard
… experiences, while others utilize modes like the ekphrastic to draw upon known works of art, yet despite the varied roots of each poem, the ultimate goal is that this collection exists as a participatory experience not a passive medium, a work of literature that goes further than merely …
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Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence
… be read as a series of dialogues that are both ekphrastic (that is, they rely on one art-form to describe another, as in paintings of poems), and multi-lingual. Finally, I contend that these translational relationships must be examined within the greater context of twentieth-century modernisms, …
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
… McNeill Whistler, for example, results in the ekphrastic poem "Hermaphroditus", which uses sculpture to comment upon the modern city‘s potential to heighten perceptual consciousness. Chapter three studies the application of ekphrasis in urban writing, especially the way in which Arthur Symons‘ …
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The Radicant Artist: Echoes of Georgia O'Keeffe in Contemporary Poetry
… The introduction presents the development of ekphrastic writing, a summary of the principal aesthetic and critical theories I have adopted, a reflection on the reasons why O’Keeffe often showed a certain reticence to the world of words, and the explanation of the materials and methodology that …
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Writing the sheela-na-gig: semiotic complexity, ekphrasis, and poetic persona in the poetry collection Strange Country
This mixed-mode PhD comprises an ekphrastic poetry collection, Strange Country, and a critical component that accounts for my research and writing processes and articulates my poetics of ekphrasis as practised in the collection. Strange Country focuses on sheela-na-gigs, stone carvings of naked …
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Magical Musicking: Musical Communication in Contemporary Fantasy Literature
… gap in the literature regarding the intermedial, ekphrastic depiction of music in the written word, as previous studies have largely focused on realist texts and ignored speculative fiction, as well as looking at a more diverse selection of texts than has been standard in the field of fantasy …
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Gestural Ekphrasis: Toward a Phenomenology of the Moving Body in Joyce and Woolf
… the gestures enacted by the artist as part of an ekphrastic process</em>.</p>
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