Museum of Words Heffernan James A.W.

Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (Heffernan James A. W.)(Paperback)

Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. Over the...