Getting the Picture: The Ekphrastic Principle in Twentieth-century Spanish Poetry

Getting the Picture: The Ekphrastic Principle in Twentieth-century Spanish Poetry
ISBN-10
0838753353
ISBN-13
9780838753354
Series
Getting The Picture
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
257
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Author
Margaret Helen Persin

Description

This book takes a probing look at how Spanish poets of the twentieth century read objects of visual art, write poems that utilize the discursive strategy known as ekphrasis, and how, in turn, they are read by those texts. As a result of their reading practices, the artistic works "read" by the poets are inscribed in the poets' own texts, and in a variety of ways. This analysis sheds light on the poets' own distinctive stance toward many primary issues, such as textuality, representation, language, power, ideology, literature, and art.

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