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The Poetics of Description

Imagined Places in European Literature
By:Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349535576
eText ISBN:9780230601888
Edition:0
Copyright:2006
Format:Page Fidelity

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This 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.