Ekphrasis : The Illusion of the Natural Sign / / Murray Krieger ; emblems by Joan Krieger.
What, 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 answe...
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Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000., author Ekphrasis The Illusion of the Natural Sign / Murray Krieger ; emblems by Joan Krieger. Johns Hopkins University Press 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages :) illustrations) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Originally published in 1992 Includes bibliographical references and index. Foreword: Of Shields -- 1. Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation -- of Ekphrasis as a Subject -- 2. Representation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- 3. Representation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- 4. Representation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign -- 5. The Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance -- 6. Language as Aesthetic Material -- 7. The Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism -- 8. A Postmodern Retrospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic -- Appendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited (1967). What, 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." Description based on print version record. English Ekphrasis. swd Ekfrasis. gtt Ekphrasis gnd (DE-588)4151667-9 Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics) fast (OCoLC)fst01163251 Poetry. fast (OCoLC)fst01067691 Ut pictura poesis [Aesthetics]. Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics) Poetry History and criticism. Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635 Electronic books. 1-4214-3121-1 1-4214-3020-7 Krieger, Joan. |
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Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000., Ekphrasis The Illusion of the Natural Sign / Foreword: Of Shields -- Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation -- of Ekphrasis as a Subject -- Representation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- Representation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- Representation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign -- The Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance -- Language as Aesthetic Material -- The Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism -- A Postmodern Retrospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic -- Appendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited (1967). |
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Foreword: Of Shields -- Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation -- of Ekphrasis as a Subject -- Representation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- Representation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- Representation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign -- The Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance -- Language as Aesthetic Material -- The Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism -- A Postmodern Retrospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic -- Appendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited (1967). |
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Foreword: Of Shields -- Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation -- of Ekphrasis as a Subject -- Representation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- Representation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic -- Representation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign -- The Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance -- Language as Aesthetic Material -- The Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism -- A Postmodern Retrospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic -- Appendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited (1967). |
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