Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign

by Murray Krieger, Joan Krieger, Professor Murray Krieger

Book Overview

Originally published in 1992. What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? Murray Krieger develops a 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421431203
• ISBN13: 9781421431208
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"