03237nam 22007815 450 991096541750332120191219191527.09786611361389978128136138712813613809780230601888023060188X10.1057/9780230601888(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(Perlego)3505986(EXLCZ)99100000000034250520151124d2006 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Poetics of Description Imagined Places in European Literature /by Janice Hewlett Koelb1st ed.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2006.1 online resource (245 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349535576 1349535575 9781403974891 1403974896 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.PoetryLiterature, ModernEuropean literaturePoetry and Poeticshttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/824000Early Modern/Renaissance Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/817000European Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/832000Poetry.Literature, Modern.European literature.Poetry and Poetics.Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.European Literature.809/.93372Koelb Janice Hewlett1791560MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965417503321The Poetics of Description4329206UNINA