Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign Tapa dura - 1992

UsedVeryGood. Text block, boards and binding are pristine. Mylar covered dust wrapper in like new condition with mild sunning along spine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Hardcover. Good Condition. 24.1 x 16.5 x 3.2 cm. Dust jacket is fully intact. Ownership inscription on first inside page. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Bindings firm, spine intact. Otherwise, in good overall condition. Publisher's note: What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words--can words--represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? After decades of reading and thinking about the nature and function of literary representation, Murray Krieger here develops his most systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and the 2,000-year tradition they claim to culminate. Krieger focuses on ekphrasis--the literary… Leer más

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-02-01. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Good book in good dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected in a mylar cover. Some bends/creases on dj. Text block includes writing/highlighting. Spine is well bound.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-02-01. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xvii, 292 pages : illustrations, 24 cm. <br> What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words, can words, represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? After decades of reading and thinking about the nature and function of literary representation, Murray Krieger here develops his most systematic theoretical statement out of answers to such questions. Ekphrasis is his account of the continuing debates over meaning in language from Plato to the present. Krieger sees the modernist position as the logical outcome of these debates but argues that more recent theories radically question the political and aesthetic assumptions of the modernists and the 2,000-year tradition they claim to culminate. Krieger focuses on ekphrasis--the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary--a form at least as old as its most famous… Leer más