Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin by Aisenberg, Margaret Katy

Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820420318)

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Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin by Aisenberg, Margaret Katy

Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin

$55.95
Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin by Aisenberg, Margaret Katy

Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin

$55.95
Format: Hardcover
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This major study of Wordsworth, Auden and Larkin proposes that we read the history of contemporary poetry as the history of a war between words and images. This book argues that the desire for transparent clear poetry, in the 19th and 20th centuries, led poets to try to appropriate the powers of the image: the main trope they used was ekphrasis, a written description of a work of art. But the relationship between the arts was less a marriage than a rape. These poets feared the wordless power of the other they described. They narcissistically created these images with the rhetoric of possession, domination, violence, or entombment.

Author: Margaret Katy Aisenberg
ISBN-10: 082042031X
ISBN-13: 9780820420318
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1995
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
By Margaret Katy Aisenberg
By Margaret Katy Aisenberg
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The Author: Katy Aisenberg received her B.A. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at Bentley College, Boston University, and Tufts University. She also holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University and is a published poet. Recently she completed an M.A. in Psychology from Boston University and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.

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