Icons, Texts, Iconotexts - Essays on Ekphrasis and Intermediality. Contributions in Englisch and French

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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Ekphrasis, Iconotexts, and Intermediality - the State(s) of the Art(s) -- Ekphrasis and Theories of Reading Visual Representations -- Iconolâtrie et iconoclastie de l'écriture libertine -- Ekphrasis as Art Criticism: Diderot and Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoe" -- Ekphrasis and the Mimetic Crisis of Romanticism -- Ecritures de l'image chez Théophile Gautier -- Icono texts: The Eighteenth Century -- Watteau: The Aesthetics of Pleasure -- Sterne and Fragonard: "The Escapades of Death" -- The Harlot, Her Father, and the Parson: Representing and Interpreting Hogarth in the Eighteenth Century -- La mise en scène de la table de travail: poétologie et épistémologie immanentes chez Guillaume-Thomas Raynal et Alexander von Humboldt -- Icono texts: The Nineteenth Century -- The Strategic Withdrawal from Ekphrasis in Jane Austen's Novels -- Appropriating Botticelli: English Approaches 1860-1890 -- Entering the Museum of Words: Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Twentieth-Century Ekphrasis -- Oscar Wilde's "Impression du matin" - an Intermedial Reading -- Iconotexts: Caricature -- Text as Design in Gillray's Caricature -- The Battle of the Signs: Robert Crumb's Visual Reading of James Boswell's "London Journal" -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Colour Plates -- 418-420

Product details

• Assisted by: Pete Wagner (Editor), Peter Wagner (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9783110142914
• ISBN: 978-3-11-014291-4
• No. of pages: 406
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 32 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 738 g
• Illustrations: 63 b/w ill., 15 colour plates
• Series: European Cultures, Studies in Literature and the Arts; European Cultures, Studies in Literature and the Arts; European Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies