LEADER 04526oam 22006254a 450 001 9910524851803321 005 20210915045224.0 010 $a1-4214-3120-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460874 035 $a(OCoLC)1122727988 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78406 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460874 100 $a19910516d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEkphrasis$eThe Illusion of the Natural Sign /$fMurray Krieger ; emblems by Joan Krieger 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages :)$cillustrations) 300 $aOriginally published in 1992 311 $a1-4214-3121-1 311 $a1-4214-3020-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tForeword: Of Shields --$g1.$tPicture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation -- of Ekphrasis as a Subject --$g2.$tRepresentation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic --$g3.$tRepresentation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic --$g4.$tRepresentation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign --$g5.$tThe Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance --$g6.$tLanguage as Aesthetic Material --$g7.$tThe Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism --$g8.$tA Postmodern Retrospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic --$tAppendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited (1967). 330 $aWhat, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words--can words--represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? After decades of reading and thinking about the nature and function of literary representation, Murray Krieger here develops his most systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and the 2,000-year tradition they claim to culminate. Krieger focuses on ekphrasis--the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary--a form at least as old as its most famous example, the shield of Achilles verbally invented in the Iliad. He argues that the "ekphrastic principle" has remained enduringly problematic in that it reflects the resistant paradoxes of representation in words. As he examines the conflict between spatial and temporal, between vision-centered and word-centered metaphors, Krieger reveals how literary theory has been shaped by the attempts and the deceptive failures of language to do the job of the "natural sign." "What is being described in ekphrasis is both a miracle and a mirage: a miracle because a sequence of actions filled with befores and afters such as language alone can trace seems frozen into an instant's vision, but a mirage because only the illusion of such an impossible picture can be suggested by the poem's words. . We may see it as the poem's miracle, and that seeing is our mirage. This peculiar--and paradoxical--jointly produced experience of ekphrasis allows it to function as the consummate example of the verbal art, the ultimate shield beyond shields." 606 $aEkphrasis$2swd 606 $aEkfrasis$2gtt 606 $aEkphrasis$2gnd$3(DE-588)4151667-9 606 $aUt pictura poesis (Aesthetics)$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01163251 606 $aPoetry$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01067691 606 $aUt pictura poesis [Aesthetics] 606 $aUt pictura poesis (Aesthetics) 606 $aPoetry$xHistory and criticism 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 0 $aPoetry 615 00$aEkphrasis. 615 10$aEkfrasis. 615 0$aEkphrasis 615 0$aUt pictura poesis (Aesthetics) 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aUt pictura poesis [Aesthetics]. 615 0$aUt pictura poesis (Aesthetics) 615 0$aPoetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.1 700 $aKrieger$b Murray$f1923-2000., $0202734 701 $aKrieger$b Joan$01139471 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524851803321 996 $aEkphrasis$92676804 997 $aUNINA