Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to AshberyUniversity of Chicago Press, 2004 - 249 עמודים As ancient as Homer's lines on the shield of Achilles and as recent as John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art. Over the ages its practitioners have created a museum of words about real and imaginary paintings and sculptures - a museum that James Heffernan explores in this book. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. This contest is typically gendered: the voice of male speech striving to control a female image that is both alluring and threatening, male narrative seeking to overcome the fixating impact of beauty poised in space. Moving from the epics of Homer, Virgil, and Dante to contemporary American poetry, this book presents a history of struggle between rival systems of representation. Heffernan also shows how this struggle changes. Poets ranging from Ovid to Shakespeare use verbalized depictions of rape to show the violence men do under the "colour" of their words; romantic poetry at once salutes and questions the transcendent beauty of visual art preserved in the newly born public museum. In the modern and postmodern eras, poets contend with all the words generated by museums themselves to regulate our experience of visual art. |
תוכן
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One HOMER VIRGIL DANTE A Genealogy of Ekphrasis | 9 |
Chapter Two WEAVING RAPE Ekphrastic Metamorphoses of the Philomela Myth from Ovid to Shakespeare | 46 |
Chapter Three ROMANTIC EKPHRASIS Iconophobia Iconophilia and the Ideology of Transcendence | 91 |
Chapter Four MODERN AND POSTMODERN EKPHRASIS Entering the Museum of Art | 135 |
Notes | 191 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery <span dir=ltr>James A. W. Heffernan</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 1993 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
actually Aeneas Aeneid ancient Apollo Arachne Arachne's artist Ashbery Ashbery's Auden's Beaumont's beauty Busirane Byron canto Clitophon Daedalus Dance Dante Dante's death depicted described ekphrasis ekphrastic passage ekphrastic poetry Elgin marbles Emelye envoicing epic evokes eyes gaze Gluck graphic Greek Hephaestus Homer Hunters Icarus icon ideal Iliad Keats Keats's language Leucippe Leucippe and Clitophon lines look Lucrece male marble meaning Medusa metaphor mirror museum narrative narrator notes object Ovid Ovid's Ozymandias painted face painter Parmigianino's Peele Castle petrified Philomela pictorial Pieter Breughel poem poet poet's poetic portrait precisely prefigure Priam Procne quoted represent representation says scenes sculpted figures sculpture seen Self-Portrait sexual Shakespeare's shield of Achilles signify silent simply Sinon sonnet soul speak stanza story suggests tapestry Tarquin tells temple Tereus tion transcendent Trojan Troy turns Vasari Venus verbal viewer violence Virgil visual art weaving Williams Williams's woman women words Wordsworth writes wrought
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