The Poetics of Description

The Poetics of Description
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780230601888
ISBN-13 : 023060188X
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Book Synopsis The Poetics of Description by : Janice Hewlett Koelb

Download or read book The Poetics of Description written by Janice Hewlett Koelb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.


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