Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis : Lyrical Representations of Photographs from the 19th Century to the Present.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Copyright Disclaimer -- A Note on the Presence of Translations and Poems in their Original Languages -- Introduction -- 1 That Which will not Perish into Art: the Chronotope of the Photograph -- 2 The Ekphrasis of the Cicerone: the 19th Century -- 3 The Snapshot Elegy -- 4 The Suppressed Ekphrasis -- 5 The Ekphrasis of Iconic Photographs -- 6 The Ekphrastic Calligram -- 7 The Anti-Ekphrasis: Larry Levis's "Sensationalism" -- 8 The Speaking Photograph -- 9 The Shadow Of The Former Self -- 10 The Photoshopped Image: the Ekphrases of Digital Photographs -- Coda: Sallie In Her Byzantine Mirror -- Bibliography -- Index.
Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century.