Writing for Art: The aesthetics of ekphrasis

by Stephen Cheeke

Overview

Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks.
Stephen Cheeke offers close readings of poems and prose from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alongside a generous amount of illustrations, covering a broad range of writing and theory about the relation of literary texts to the visual arts, and extending the subject of ekphrasis to include literary works on photography, as well as celebrated prose descriptions of artworks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719083242
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Stephen Cheeke is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Ekphrasis
2 Beauty and Truth
3 The Moment
4 Bliss
5 Suffering
6 Illusion
7 Photography and Elegy
8 Prose Ekphrasis
Select Bibliography: 255 -270

Editorial Reviews

Writing for art is an exigent text, is lucidly and engagingly written. Cheeke makes one want to read the books and poems and look at the pictures again.

valuable additions to the exponentially growing area of ekphrastic studies

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