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The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature, PDF eBook

The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature PDF

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This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.

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