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Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis: Lyrical Representations of Photographs from the 19th Century to the Present
Andrew Miller
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Description for Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis: Lyrical Representations of Photographs from the 19th Century to the Present
Hardcover. Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20. BIC Classification: AJ; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller’s study concentrates solely on the lyrical ekphrasis of photographs, setting out to define how the photographic image provides a unique form of poetic ekphrasis. Moving between the disciplines of semiotics, visual studies, psychology, classical rhetoric, philosophy and literary criticism, Miller outlines what he defines as the chronotope of the photograph. Employing M.M. Bakhtin’s notion of the literary chronotope, Miller argues that the ekphrasis of photographs manifests itself in a series of chronotopic narratives. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to delineating one of these narratives. In this work, Miller engages in a literary history that follows the timeline of photography from its origins in the 19th century to its contemporary digital manifestations in the 21st. The study engages in close-readings of the works of such poets as Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin. In addition, the book does the work of a comparative study, and it goes beyond the limits of Anglophone literature to include the works of such poets and writers as Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal and Zbigniew Herbert.
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381908
SKU
V9781781381908
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About Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen.
Reviews for Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis: Lyrical Representations of Photographs from the 19th Century to the Present
Reviews 'Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is an excellent treatment of an understudied topic. Miller is willing to follow close readings where they lead, and thus the book is rich in discussions of philosophy, psychology and literary and art theory. His book will be useful to those who are interested in Ekphrasis, English poetry, American poetry, and Comparative Literature.' Helen Emmitt