Heffernan, James A. W.: Museum of Words

The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery. Ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the image as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. From the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante to contemporary American poetry, the book presents a history of struggle between rival systems of representation. XII,249 Seiten mit 12 Abb., gebunden (University of Chicago Press 1993) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed

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