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020			_a9781421430201
020			_z0801842662
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020			_z9781421431215
035			_a(OCoLC)1122727988
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050	0	4	_aPN1126 _b.K75 1991
082	0		_a809.1 _220
100	1		_aKrieger, Murray, _d1923-2000., _eauthor
245	1	0	_aEkphrasis _bThe Illusion of the Natural Sign / _cMurray Krieger ; emblems by Joan Krieger.
300			_a1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 292 pages) : _billustrations)
500			_aOriginally published in 1992
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tForeword: Of Shields -- _g1. _tPicture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation -- of Ekphrasis as a Subject -- _g2. _tRepresentation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- _g3. _tRepresentation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- _g4. _tRepresentation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign -- _g5. _tThe Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance -- _g6. _tLanguage as Aesthetic Material -- _g7. _tThe Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism -- _g8. _tA Postmodern Retrospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic -- _tAppendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited (1967).
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aWhat, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words--can words--represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? After decades of reading and thinking about the nature and function of literary representation, Murray Krieger here develops his most 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 2,000-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 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." "What is being described in ekphrasis is both a miracle and a mirage: a miracle because a sequence of actions filled with befores and afters such as language alone can trace seems frozen into an instant's vision, but a mirage because only the illusion of such an impossible picture can be suggested by the poem's words. . We may see it as the poem's miracle, and that seeing is our mirage. This peculiar--and paradoxical--jointly produced experience of ekphrasis allows it to function as the consummate example of the verbal art, the ultimate shield beyond shields."
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650	0	0	_aEkphrasis. _2swd
650	1	0	_aEkfrasis. _2gtt
650		0	_aEkphrasis _2gnd _0(DE-588)4151667-9
650		0	_aUt pictura poesis (Aesthetics) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01163251
650		0	_aPoetry. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01067691
650		0	_aUt pictura poesis [Aesthetics].
650		0	_aUt pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
650		0	_aPoetry _xHistory and criticism.
653	0		_aPoetry
655		0	_aElectronic books. _2lcgft
655		0	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aKrieger, Joan.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _e distributor
776	1	8	_iOnline version: _tEkphrasis. _dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 _w(OCoLC)647558383
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/68495/
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