02651nam 2200625Ia 450 991045120120332120200520144314.01-281-36138-097866113613890-230-60188-X10.1057/9780230601888(CKB)1000000000342505(EBL)308279(OCoLC)315770937(SSID)ssj0000282908(PQKBManifestationID)11244927(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282908(PQKBWorkID)10325930(PQKB)11511208(DE-He213)978-0-230-60188-8(MiAaPQ)EBC308279(Au-PeEL)EBL308279(CaPaEBR)ebr10167468(CaONFJC)MIL136138(OCoLC)191662048(EXLCZ)99100000000034250520060309d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe poetics of description[electronic resource] imagined places in European literature /Janice Hewlett KoelbNew York Palgrave Macmillan20061 online resource (245 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53557-5 1-4039-7489-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place; 1 As if Present: Classical Ecphrasis; 2 Unity, Form, and Figuration; 3 A Sylvan Scene; 4 The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque; 5 The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth's Antipicturesque Excursion; 6 ""Till the Place Became Religion"": Byron's Coliseum; Epilogue: Immediacy; Notes; Works Cited; IndexThis 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.Imaginary places in literatureEuropean literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Imaginary places in literature.European literatureHistory and criticism.809/.93372Koelb Janice Hewlett936300MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451201203321The poetics of description2109172UNINA