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Wordsworth & Word-Preserving Arts: Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work
Peter Simonsen
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Description for Wordsworth & Word-Preserving Arts: Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work
Hardcover. By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.
By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230524811
SKU
V9780230524811
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99-15
About Peter Simonsen
PETER SIMONSEN received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern Denmark.
Reviews for Wordsworth & Word-Preserving Arts: Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work
'Through sustained passages of subtle and often illuminating close textual reading, the visual and material nature of the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic and inscriptional poetry is disclosed.' - Francesca Cauchi, Philosophy Quarterly