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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"enargeia"”.
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
… does space and shows how Lucian’s use of enargeia in the Hippias and Icaromenippus can solicit bodily engagement on the part of the readers as much as it can prompt critical thinking about the role, function and effects of enargeia itself. Chapter Three moves the study of ecphrasis beyond …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
… on strategies used to create the effect of 'enargeia' or vividness in writing, and compare them with the strategies used by artists and patrons in visual and material culture. Examining a broad range of objects including portraits, domestic decoration, household items, and book illustration, …
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Shakespeare in Present-Day British Theatre: Where Text Meets Practice
… the potential for meta-theatre; (ii) passages of enargeia – that is, rich descriptions of offstage action; (iii) repartee – where rich rhetorical dialogue poses a challenge to present-day naturalistic delivery. As result of this thesis, my primary proposal is the development of a theatre practice …
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Literature, interarts, and multimodality in the narrative of Seán Virgo: a transmedial inquiry into pictorial, architectural, theatrical, musical, and iconotextual tranfers
… Pictura Poesis and the classical ways to attain enargeia.
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
This dissertation project examines the influence of energy in its many forms on early modern English country house verse and epic, arguing for a novel reading approach — through the prisms of energy — to arrive at more expansive understandings of the historical period, its imaginative literature, …