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200 14$aThe poetics of description$b[electronic resource] $eimagined places in European literature /$fJanice Hewlett Koelb
210   $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (245 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-349-53557-5 
311   $a1-4039-7489-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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; Index
330   $aThis 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.
606   $aImaginary places in literature
606   $aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aImaginary places in literature.
615  0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism.
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700   $aKoelb$b Janice Hewlett$0936300
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906   $aBOOK
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