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The Sculpted Word not only provides the fullest treatment yet of Keats's use of ekphrasis - a trope by which writer translate visual compositions into words - but also places the poems within their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. Grant F. Scott observes that in Keats we often feel that we are wandering through a museum with a particularly eloquent and subtle guide.
On one level, the guide's efforts to capture such visual images as engraved gems, landscape paintings, marbles, and urns represent an attempt to defeat the dominion of the image by writing it into language. On a deeper level, Scott suggests, ekphrasis presents Keats with psychological issues that have less to do with aesthetics than anxieties over such issues as cultural heritage, poetic tradition, and gender identity. "Everywhere in ekphrasis studies," he argues, "we encounter the language of subterfuge, of conspiracy; there is something taboo about moving across media, even as there is something profoundly liberating."
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Grant F. Scott is Assistant Professor of English at Muhlenberg College.
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- PublisherUniversity Press of New England
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 087451679X
- ISBN 13 9780874516791
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages228
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The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts.
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Hanover, London: University Press of New England, 1994
ISBN 10: 087451679X
ISBN 13: 9780874516791
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Gut. XVI, 228 p. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag weist leichte Gebrauchsspuren auf, sonst ein gutes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Only the dust jacket shows slight signs of handling, otherwise a good copy without markings. - CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Classical and Romantic Ekphrasis 1 The Rhetoric of Dilation: Ekphrasis, Ideology, and Gender 2 Beautiful Ruins: The Elgin Marbles Sonnet in Its Historical and Generic Contexts 3 Words into Pictures: Ekphrasis in "Fragment of Castle-builder," "Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds," and "The Eve of St. Agnes" 4 Well-Earned Repose: Ekphrasis, Gender, and "Ode on Indolence" 5 Keats and the Urn 6 Seduced by Stone: The Hyperion Fragments and "To Autumn" Notes Works Cited Index. ISBN 9780874516791 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 585. Seller Inventory # 1239809
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The Sculpted Word: Keats Ekphrasis & The Visual Arts
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University Press of New England Hanover 1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 087451679X
ISBN 13: 9780874516791
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24.0 x 15.0cms 228pp fine hardback & dustwrapper This book discusses Keats' anxieties over cultural heritage poetic tradition & gender identity. The chapters are; clasical & romantic ekphrasis; the rhetoric of dilation (ekphrasis ideology & gender); the Elgin Marbles sonnet in its historical & generic contexts: ekphrasis in 'Fragment of Castle-Builder' 'Epistle of John Hamilton Reynolds' & 'The Eve Of St Agnes'; ekphrasis gender & 'Ode On Indolence'; Keats & the urn; the Hyperion fragments & 'To Autumn'. Scrace title. Seller Inventory # 20329723
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