...The final chapter of the study examines Acker’s practices of ekphrasis and reappropriation of mythology in her final works. Chapter six offers a close reading of ‘From Psyche’s Journal’, Acker’s creative critical piece on Cathy de Monchaux’s sculptural work, examining the ekphrastic impulse...

... John Atwood Margaret Handmaid’s Tale The Nikolajeva Maria Sutton Roger Dickens Charles Holiday Romance Nesbit Edith Story of the Treasure Seekers The Bradford Clare Mallan Kerry Children’s Metafiction Metafilm Meta-adaptation Intramediality Intermediality Transmediation Ekphrasis...

...; voicing the narrator; thematised readers and writers; embedding the book’s story; the lap dissolve; shifts from still to moving image; and metaphors for metalepsis (windows and mirrors). The chapter further discusses ekphrasis and shows how the interpretant functions. The chapter presents a case study...

... two different but prominent types of meta-adaptation: The Invention of Hugo Cabret/Hugo, and the novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events and both the novels’ film adaptation and Netflix series (season 1). Cock and Bull Story A Voigts Virchow Eckart ekphrasis...

... were mainly used to link painting to patron. But in the Cairo Bustan, the poetic verses were chosen so as to convey a celebration of the painter. As such they constitute an example of wasf (ekphrasis), a description of the visual that was also a discourse of praise. Moreover, the verses were picked...

... of extraordinary synthetic acuity. Such patches include passages of dialogue that, as described in the sixteenth century, “lead objects before our eyes” by means of ekphrasis. The book offers substantial art-historical research into the only visual artist named by Shakespeare, Giulio Romano--who performs...

... of Chicago ekphrasis Hayes Terrance Hirsch Edward Transforming Vision Writers on Art Komunyakaa Yusef Mount William Sidney Bar Room Scene Trethewey Natasha Wideman John Edgar Dove Rita Hayden Robert Johnson Charles Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago affinity alienation dance...

...Wheatley redefines herself and her prospects by choosing to open her collection of poems with the rhetorical device of ekphrasis applied to her own situation. This act of agency asserts her equality as an educated person with men and with white people in the face of society’s...

... Greenspan A Sarkozy N crisis fiction Citton Y derivative images Lordon F financial derivatives central banks D’un retournement l’autre Stiegler B proletarianisation Larnaudie M calque Mathieu Larnaudie Bernard Stiegler Alan Greenspan Ekphrasis Like Lordon, the literary writer Mathieu...

... Frost Robert Galentine Wheaton Leeds Harold Marshall Megan Solt Mary Ellen Swenson May Tartakovsky Rei Elizabeth Bishop poetry ekphrasis Surrealism visual poetry avant-garde writing This chapter reads Elizabeth Bishop’s poem ‘Arrival at Santos’, with its odd breakage of the letter...

...This chapter examines ‘Atlantis: The Evidence’ – a 2010 episode of Timewatch, the BBC2 historical documentary series – as an example of digital ekphrasis. Facilitated by digital techniques that generate a distinctive aesthetic, the evocative audiovisual...

... short of high art. This book asks: How do ambitious experiments with a joint diary, closet drama, ekphrasis, elegy, and nature, devotional, and love poetry help Michael Field navigate the paradox of looking backward in order to achieve their goal “to make all things new”? How do their revisionary...

... of a timeless lyric eternity through an appeal to the modes of metrical reading provided in this chapter. ekphrasis metre painting Rossetti Dante Gabriel time Lessing G E Siddal Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Benjamin Walter modernism silence Titian Tiziano Vecelli Pastoral Concert Hegel G W F Helsinger...

...-patriarchal and anti-heteronormative interpretations to the venerable art-objects they contemplate, and demonstrate how ekphrasis can be much more synaesthetic—and in particular, haptic-- than solely visual. Further, much of Michael Field’s ekphrastic work in and after Sight and Song...

...Like its predecessor, this chapter is exclusively devoted to African American ekphrasis and American slavery, taking F. Douglas Brown’s Icon (2018) as its field of inquiry. This small-press collection is notable for the culturally diverse mix of poetic genres it deploys (Kundiman...

.... The argument continues that ekphrasis can also persuade an audience that a person in the play is making a terrible error (as Romeo, seeing Juliet in the Capulets’ tomb awakening from the sleeping potion that Friar Laurence has given her, and believing her lingering pallor is a sign of coming death, takes...

... ‘The Song of the Bomber’ Von Ossietzky Carl warfare Picasso Pablo sense data tragedy Arrowsmith Rupert Richard Asia cosmopolitanism Modernism Orientalism McCormack Jerusha Materialism Phenomenology Ekphrasis Embodiment Ecological theory Scale Critique In 1936, while writing...

... Japanese art and culture modernity objects séances Semphill Lord space Churchill Winston Lane Bequest vision McGuire Edward Portrait of Seamus Heaney sense data voice femininity Medbh McGuckian Sinéad Morrissey Seamus Heaney Ekphrasis Portraiture Lyric This chapter is a critical...

... the emphasis on the performer and introducing the concept of embodied ekphrasis. Both Duncan and Craig’s experiments were not based on readings of Greek plays, and gestured towards a form of Hellenism echoed in the modernist concept of total theatre. Theorising and expressing performance...