Ekphrastic Encounters : New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts.

Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: from paragone to encounter -- Part I: Early modern encounters -- 'Lamentable objects': ekphrasis and historical materiality in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece -- 'Fabulously counterfeit': ekphrastic encounters in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy -- 'Art indeed is long, but life is short': ekphrasis and mortality in Andrew Marvell -- 'The Painter has made a finer Story than the Poet': Jonathan Richardson's ekphrastic 'Dissertation' on Poussin's Tancred and Erminia -- Part II: Nineteenth-century encounters -- Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and Laocoön digressions in the novel -- The face of Beatrice Cenci -- Mirroring naturalism in word and image: a critical exchange between Émile Zola and Édouard Manet -- Close encounters of the third kind: Hamo Thornycroft's The Mower and Matthew Arnold's 'Thyrsis' -- Part III: Modern and postmodern encounters -- An artist of the bizarre: Stanley Spencer's 'ordinary' ekphrases -- The graphics of ekphrastic writing: Raymond Pettibon's drawing-writing -- Ekphrasis/exscription: Jean-Luc Nancy on thinking and touching art -- On gazers' encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, 'iconotexts' -- Afterword -- Index.

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. It seeks to complicate the traditional model of ekphrasis as a form of paragone (competition), and proposes a more reciprocal model that involves an encounter or exchange between word and image.

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