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Writing for Art: The aesthetics of ekphrasis
Full title: | Writing for Art: The aesthetics of ekphrasis |
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ISBN: | 9780719083242 |
ISBN 10: | 0719083249 |
Authors: | Cheeke, Stephen |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
Edition: | Illustrated |
Num. pages: | 224 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2010 |
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Synopsis
Writing for Art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks.
Stephen Cheeke offers close readings of poems and prose from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries along with a generous amount of illustrations, covering a broad range of writing and theory about the relation of literary texts to the visual arts, and extending the subject of ekphrasis to include literary works on photography, as well as celebrated prose descriptions of artworks.