Download e-book for kindle: The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and by David Kennedy

By David Kennedy

ISBN-10: 1409418804

ISBN-13: 9781409418801

analyzing a variety of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that modern British poets writing out of either mainstream and avant-garde traditions problem demonstrated serious versions of ekphrasis with paintings that's extra advanced than representational or counter-representational responses to work in museums and galleries. even if the poem seems to be straightforwardly representational, it is usually selectively so, generating a 'virtual' paintings that does not exist in reality. Poets reminiscent of Kelvin Corcoran, Peter Hughes, and Gillian Clarke, Kennedy indicates, enjoy the ekphrastic stumble upon as one within which notice and snapshot turn into together destabilizing. equally, different poets have interaction with the resource art as a functionality that participates within the moral realm. exhibiting that the moral flip in ekphrastic poetry is frequently powerfully gendered, Kennedy additionally surveys more than a few ekphrastic poets from the Renaissance and 19th century to track a practice of girl ekphrastic poetry that comes with Pauline Stainer and Frances Presley. Kennedy concludes with a critique of ekphrastic routines in artistic writing educating, offering that ekphrastic writing that takes higher account of functionality spectatorship might provide extra fruitful types for the study room than the narrativizing of images.

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