...Ekphrasis – the verbal representation of visual art – has traditionally been regarded as a form of paragone or competition between different forms of representation. The Introduction advocates a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between word...

... as it reappears as a discursive ‘foreign body’ (akin to and implicating ekphrasis) within a number of novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Going beyond strong critical readings of ekphrases as hostile stand-offs between text and image, however, my analysis of works such as Wilhelm Heinse’s...

...This chapter identifies seven types of ekphrasis in the writings of the artist Stanley Spencer. Selections of these writings have been published, and the chapter explores this particular type of ekphrastic encounter when such ‘an artist of the bizarre’ develops his own search for form, while...

... of ekphrasis in operation. Representations of the physical body abound in these works, in its needs, health, and temptations. Similarly, the spectral body allows for an extended range of emotion and experience, and the possibility of posthumous existence. The resulting power struggle between the two elements...

...This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. In the past twenty five years numerous books and articles have appeared covering different aspects of ekphrasis, with scholars arguing that it is a fundamental means by which...

...Andrew Marvell is becoming increasingly recognised as a poet who demonstrates a profound connection with the full range of visual arts. However, little attention has been paid to how the remarkable visual quality of Marvell’s work engages with traditional or contemporary debates about ekphrasis...

... Gerard ekphrasis art history Jonathan Richardson Poussin Tasso paragone Tancred and Erminia Gerusalemme liberata The turn of the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of art theory as a distinct discipline in England. This seems to have been prompted initially by John Dryden’s prose...

... Haussmann Baron Eugène rhetoric Huysmans J K ekphrasis iconotext Zola Manet Baudelaire modernity naturalism word and image art criticism exchange This chapter addresses ekphrastic practice from two directions: first, conventionally, as critical and literary writing about painting; second...

... touching and withdrawal that is lateral, metonymic, and works in both directions. And if this is what W. J. T. Mitchell might term an ambivalent account of ekphrasis, it is not a relation of indifference. Rather, the signifying surface and its non-signifying other are turned towards one another in a non...

... Andrew cont Reni Guido Shelley Percy Bysshe Milton John Mitchell W J T Nancy Jean Luc de Flandes Juan MacLeish Archibald Guanti ekphrasis paragone Lessing intermedial representation kinetic symbiosis This volume freshly demonstrates that ekphrasis is probably the most Protean of all...

... Tom Jones torture Leibniz G W blood Georg Christoph Lichtenberg William Hogarth The grotesque The carnivalesque satire hermeneutics ekphrasis hypochondria text and image Why Strephon, will you tell the rest? And must you needs describe the Chest? That careless Wench...

...In his 1594 narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare uses ekphrasis to explore a shift in the early modern understanding of history. Of the many changes he made to the Lucrece story, he added a 200-line ekphrasis of a picture depicting the fall of Troy. While appearing...

...This chapter examines the figure of ekphrasis in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, and focuses on the so-called ‘Painter scene’ that appears in the 1602 quarto. This is the most obviously ekphrastic moment in the play, in which its protagonist, Hieronimo, encounters a Painter...

... Milton John Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Ekphrasis Beatrice Cenci Guido Reni Nathanial Hawthorne The Marble Faun The 22-year-old Beatrice Cenci, having been involuntarily confined and possibly sexually assaulted by her father Francesco, conspired with her stepmother Lucrezia and her brother Giacomo...

... Winckelmann Johann Joachim Dalou Jules Fisher John Getsy David Hatt Michael Magritte René Smith Mack ekphrasis desire Hamo Thornycroft Matthew Arnold The Mower Arthur Hugh Clough ‘Thyrsis’ elegy Sculpture epigraph On 8 April 1884 Hamo Thornycroft submitted a life-size plaster sculpture...

... of ekphrasis. It demonstrates how Pettibon introduces textual fragmentation and non-linearity through his complex responses to and paraphrasing of ekphrastic authors, which opens up writing to the contingencies usually associated with drawing. Similarly, Pettibon’s texts are surveyed for typographic...

...This chapter defines ekphrasis concisely as ‘the verbal representation of real or fictive configurations composed in a non-kinetic visual medium’. It rejects narrower definitions that exclude texts on non-representational visual configurations, including architecture, or restrict the discourse...