Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign

Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign
ISBN-10
1421431203
ISBN-13
9781421431208
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
2019-12-01
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Author
Murray Krieger

Description

As he examines the conflict between the spatial and temporal, between vision-centered and word-centered metaphors, Krieger reveals how literary theory has been shaped by the attempts and the deceptive failures of language to do the job of the "natural sign."

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