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The Poetics of Description

The Poetics of Description Imagined Places in European Literature

1st Edition 2006

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781349535576
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition 2006
Language: English
Number of pages: 232
Weight: 295g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 13mm