The Poetics of Description: Imagined Places in European Literature

This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-06-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349535576

DOI: 10.1057/9780230601888

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 232