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  1. Description in literature and other media
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Description as a Transmedial Mode of Representation General Features and Possibilities of Realization in Painting, Fiction and Music /Werner Wolf -- Towards a Typology, Poetics and History of Description in Fiction /Ansgar... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Description as a Transmedial Mode of Representation General Features and Possibilities of Realization in Painting, Fiction and Music /Werner Wolf -- Towards a Typology, Poetics and History of Description in Fiction /Ansgar Nünning -- Functions of Description in Poetry /Walter Bernhart -- Description in American Nature Writing /Arno Heller -- The Descriptive in Audio-/Radioliterature – a ‘Blind Date’? /Doris Mader -- For Your Eyes Only: Some Thoughts on the Descriptive in Film /Klaus Rieser -- Dürer’s Apocalypse as the Origin of the Western System of Graphic Reproduction: A Contribution to the History of Descriptive Techniques in the Visual Arts /Johann Konrad Eberlein -- “Spiritualia sub metaphoris corporalium”?: Description in the Visual Arts /Götz Pochat -- Descriptive Images: Authenticity and Illusion in Early and Contemporary Photography /Susanne Knaller -- Musical Sunrises: A Case Study of the Descriptive Potential of Instrumental Music /Michael Walter -- Notes on Contributors. In contrast to narrative, description is a much less researched phenomenon, and where it so far has found attention at all, scholars have almost always discussed it with fiction in mind. The all but exclusive concentration on literature has hitherto obscured the fact that description transcends literature and indeed the verbal media in general and is not only a transgeneric but also a transmedial phenomenon that can be found in many other media and arts. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of description since it for the first time undertakes to close this research lacuna by highlighting description and its relevance with reference to a wide spectrum of arts and media. The volume opens with a detailed introductory essay, which aims at clarifying the descriptive as a basic semiotic form of organizing signs from a theoretical perspective but also provides a first overview of the uses of description as well as its problematics in fiction, painting and instrumental music. In the main part of the book, nine contributions by scholars from various disciplines explore description in individual media and different cultural epochs. The first section of the book is dedicated to literature and related (partly) verbal media and includes a typological and historical survey of description in fiction as well as discussions of its occurrence in poetry, nature writing, radioliterature and film. The second part deals with the (purely) visual media and ranges from a presentation of the descriptive techniques used in Dürer’s graphic reproductions to general reflections on ‘the descriptive’ in the visual arts as well as in photography. A third section on description in music provides a perspective on yet another medium. The volume, which is the second one in the series ‘Studies in Intermediality’, is of relevance to students and scholars from various fields: intermedial studies, literary and film studies, history of art, and musicology

     
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    Series: Studies in intermediality ; 2
    Subjects: Description (Rhetoric); Visual communication; Music; Description (Rhetoric); Music; Visual communication; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  2. Foregrounded Description in Prose Fictio
    Five Cross-Literary Studies
    Author: Lopes, J.M.
    Published: [2016]; © 1995
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442623248
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    Subjects: Description (Rhetoric); Narration (Rhetoric); Romance-language fiction; Structuralism (Literary analysis)
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  3. Icons - Texts - Iconotexts
    Essays on Ekphrasis and Intermediality
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9783110142914; 9783110882599; 9783111796758
    RVK Categories: EC 1030 ; EC 3870 ; EC 4150 ; ET 785
    Series: European Cultures ; 6
    Subjects: Art and literature; Description (Rhetoric); Ekphrasis; European literature; Words in art; Text; Literatursemiotik; Bild; Intermedialität; Literatur; Ekphrasis; Kunst
    Other subjects: Electronic books
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-382) and index
  4. Ekphrasis
    Bildbeschreibung als Repräsentationstheorie bei Spenser, Sidney, Lyly und Shakespeare
    Author: Klarer, Mario
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen

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  5. The Unfinished Enlightenment
    Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia
    Author: Stalnaker, Joanna
    Published: [2011]; © 2011
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of... more

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    In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration-rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields-has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century

     
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    ISBN: 9780801462344
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    Subjects: Europe; Literary Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Description (Rhetoric); Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French; Enlightenment; Enlightenment; French literature; Natural history; Natural history; Aufklärung; Französisch; Enzyklopädie; Naturwissenschaften; Geistesleben; Literatur
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  6. The Rhetoric of Valéry's Prose Aubades
    Author: Franklin, Ursula R.
    Published: [2019]; © 1979
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    While Paul Valéry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This... more

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    While Paul Valéry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This study demonstrates the significance of Valéry as a prose poet and of the form and its evolution in the poet's oeuvre. The close textual reading and analysis concentrate on Valéry's prose aubades – the prose poems, poetic prose fragments, and sequences celebrating the emergence of the self and its world at dawn. The theme of dawn pervades Valéry's poetry from the opening chord of Charmes to those Notebooks which he kept from almost half a century and which are the source of so much of his poetry. This book shows how the moment and theme of dawn have also inspired the greater part of Valéry's prose poems and poetic prose fragments. Critics have begun to show interest in the break-up of traditional genres and in the emergence of the fragment as a new literary form. But Valéry's position in this development has so far escaped critical inquiry, as have his prose poems in general. Professor Franklin redresses the balance with rigor, poise, and elegance. She shows how Valéry's artistic progression from the traditional prose poem to the fragment, the evolution of the recueil to the sequence, represents a development very similar to that manifests in another new prose form, the new nouveau roman. It is a brilliant analysis of a neglected aspect of Valéry's work and a thoughtful interpretation of Valéry's thought and poetics as a whole

     
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    ISBN: 9781487595517
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Dawn in literature; Description (Rhetoric); Prose poems, French; Sprache; Prosagedicht
    Other subjects: Valéry, Paul (1871-1945)
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  7. Die literarische Landschaft
    Zur Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
    Author: Weber, Kurt-H.
    Published: [2010]; ©2010
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston

    Die Landschaft ist keine objektive Gegebenheit, sie ist eine historisch vermittelte Wahrnehmungsweise der Natur. Zur Voraussetzung hat sie die Herausbildung von Sehmustern und Naturauffassungen, die nur unter bestimmten sozialen Bedingungen entstehen... more

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    Die Landschaft ist keine objektive Gegebenheit, sie ist eine historisch vermittelte Wahrnehmungsweise der Natur. Zur Voraussetzung hat sie die Herausbildung von Sehmustern und Naturauffassungen, die nur unter bestimmten sozialen Bedingungen entstehen können. Die literarische Darstellung des Naturraums ist Teil dieses Prozesses, sie fügt sich ein in den größeren Zusammenhang einer ästhetischen Vermittlung der Natur. Landschaft ist ein bestimmtes Wahrnehmungsschema, das zuerst die Malerei entwickelt. Erst sehr viel später folgt ihr die Literatur. Daraus ergibt sich die Notwendigkeit einer Revision der bisherigen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung, die umstandslos jede Angabe zum Naturraum mit Landschaft gleichsetzt. Es ist aber nicht so, dass sich die Literatur einseitig an der bildenden Kunst orientierte, diese ist auch wieder abhängig von jener; das betrifft vor allem die Bildinhalte. Bei allen Gemeinsamkeiten der Künste gibt es auch gravierende Unterschiede, was allein schon aus der Verschiedenheit der artistischen Mittel resultiert. Die prosaische Naturdarstellung gehört zu einer seit alters betriebenen, als Ekphrasis bezeichneten Beschreibungskunst, die ihre eigenen Gesetze hat

     
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  8. Icons, texts, iconotexts
    essays on ekphrasis and intermediality
    Contributor: Wagner, Peter
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  W. de Gruyter, Berlin ; [ProQuest], [Ann Arbor, Michigan]

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    ISBN: 9783110882599
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    RVK Categories: EC 3870 ; EC 4150 ; ET 785
    DDC Categories: 400; 800
    Series: European cultures ; 6
    Subjects: Ekphrasis; Kunst; Intermedialität; Ekphrasis; European literature; Art and literature; Description (Rhetoric); Words in art
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  9. The Unfinished Enlightenment
    Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia
    Author: Stalnaker, Joanna
    Published: [2011]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Natural Histories -- 1. Buffon and Daubenton's Two Horses -- 2. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Strawberry Plant -- Part II: Encyclopedias -- 3. Diderot's Word... more

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    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Natural Histories -- 1. Buffon and Daubenton's Two Horses -- 2. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Strawberry Plant -- Part II: Encyclopedias -- 3. Diderot's Word Machine -- 4. Delille's Little Encyclopedia -- Part III: Moral and Political Topographies -- 5. Mercier's Unframed Paris -- 6. Description in Revolution -- Conclusion: Virtual Encyclopedias -- Bibliography -- Index In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration-rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields-has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century

     
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    Subjects: Natural history; French literature; Description (Rhetoric); Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French; Enlightenment; Enlightenment; Natural history; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
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  10. Foregrounded Description in Prose Fictio
    Five Cross-Literary Studies
    Author: Lopes, J.M.
    Published: 2016; ©1995
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    In this wide-ranging study, José Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures—French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian—testing... more

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    In this wide-ranging study, José Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures—French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian—testing his model across a cultural and temporal spectrum. This critical breadth also illustrates the significance of description in disparate contexts: the postmodern novel, which implicitly challenges conventional notions of foreground and background, as well as the naturalist and realist fiction of the nineteenth century.Lopes applies his model to detailed readings of Emile Zola's Une Page d'amour, Claude Simon's Histoire, Benito Pérez Galdós' La de Bringas, Cornélio Penna's A Menina Morta, and Carlos de Oliveira's Finisterra. In addition to exploring the interplay of description and narration, these readings pay particular attention to spatial descriptions, and analyse the diverse roles of description in different contexts. After subjecting each fictional text to a detailed analysis which seeks to bring out the crucial aspects that contribute towards the foregrounding of descriptive passages (e.g., mise en abyme, parody, modes of representation), and which establishes, on occasion, certain relations that literary description may entertain with the other arts, he attempts to isolate the primary functions of foregrounding descriptions. What he seeks to demonstrate is that description constitutes a major textual component necessary for the analysis and understanding of both nineteenth- and twentieth-century fictional texts.

     
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    Subjects: Description (Rhetoric); Narration (Rhetoric); Romance-language fiction; Structuralism (Literary analysis); Description (Rhetoric).; Narration (Rhetoric).; Romance-language fiction.; Structuralism (Literary analysis).
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  11. Spenser and Literary Pictorialism
    Author: Bender, John B.
    Published: 2015; ©2015
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

    Focusing, framing, scanning—the language of film—and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by John Bender to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature. The theory that he proposes, grounded in his analysis of Spenser,... more

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    Focusing, framing, scanning—the language of film—and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by John Bender to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature. The theory that he proposes, grounded in his analysis of Spenser, "the painter of poets," discriminates between the descriptive and the pictorial in poetry.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

     
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  12. Virgil's Epic Designs
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

    This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgil’s final masterpiece, the Aeneid. Virgil uses ekphrasis-a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a... more

     

    This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgil’s final masterpiece, the Aeneid. Virgil uses ekphrasis-a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other object-to tell us something about the grander text in which it is embedded, says Michael C. J. Putnam. Individually and as a group, Virgil’s ekphrases enrich the reader’s understanding of the meaning of the epic. Putnam shows how the descriptions of works of art, and of people, places, and even animals, provide metaphors for the entire poem and reinforce its powerful ambiguities.Putnam offers insightful analyses of the most extensive and famous ekphrases in the Aeneid-the paintings in Juno’s temples in Carthage, the Daedalus frieze, and the shield of Aeneas. He also considers shorter and less well known examples-the stories of Ganymede, the Trojan shepherd swept into the sky by an amorous Jupiter; the fifty daughters of Danaus, ordered by their father to kill their husbands on their wedding night; and Virgil’s original tale of a domesticated wild stag whose killing sparks a war between Trojans and Italians. These ekphrases incorporate major themes of the Aeneid, an enduring formative text of the Western tradition, and provide a rich variety of interpretive perspectives on the poem

     
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    Subjects: Rhetoric, Ancient; Epic poetry, Latin; Description (Rhetoric); Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
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    Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- 1. Dido’s Murals -- -- 2. The Cloak of Cloanthus -- -- 3. Daedalus′ Sculptures -- -- 4. Silvia’s Stag -- -- 5. The Shield of Aeneas -- -- 6. The Baldric of Pallas -- -- Conclusion -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index
  13. Through the negative
    the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature
    Author: Williams, Megan Rowley
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

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    Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
    Subjects: Geschichte; Wissen; American fiction; Literature and photography; Photography; Description (Rhetoric); Visual perception in literature; Photography in literature; Fotografie <Motiv>; Literatur
    Other subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
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  14. Foregrounded description in prose fiction
    five cross-literary studies
    Author: Lopes, José Manuel
    Published: 1995; © 1995
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England]

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    Series: Theory / Culture
    Subjects: Romance-language fiction; Description (Rhetoric); Narration (Rhetoric); Structuralism (Literary analysis); Prosa; Beschreibung; Romanische Sprachen; Roman; Geschichte
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  15. The Rhetoric of Valéry's Prose Aubades
    Author: Franklin, Ursula R.
    Published: [2019]; © 1979
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    While Paul Valéry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This... more

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    While Paul Valéry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This study demonstrates the significance of Valéry as a prose poet and of the form and its evolution in the poet's oeuvre. The close textual reading and analysis concentrate on Valéry's prose aubades – the prose poems, poetic prose fragments, and sequences celebrating the emergence of the self and its world at dawn. The theme of dawn pervades Valéry's poetry from the opening chord of Charmes to those Notebooks which he kept from almost half a century and which are the source of so much of his poetry. This book shows how the moment and theme of dawn have also inspired the greater part of Valéry's prose poems and poetic prose fragments. Critics have begun to show interest in the break-up of traditional genres and in the emergence of the fragment as a new literary form. But Valéry's position in this development has so far escaped critical inquiry, as have his prose poems in general. Professor Franklin redresses the balance with rigor, poise, and elegance. She shows how Valéry's artistic progression from the traditional prose poem to the fragment, the evolution of the recueil to the sequence, represents a development very similar to that manifests in another new prose form, the new nouveau roman. It is a brilliant analysis of a neglected aspect of Valéry's work and a thoughtful interpretation of Valéry's thought and poetics as a whole

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Dawn in literature; Description (Rhetoric); Prose poems, French; Sprache; Prosagedicht
    Other subjects: Valéry, Paul (1871-1945)
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  16. Virgil's epic designs
    ekphrasis in the Aeneid
    Author: Putnam, Michael C. J.
    Published: 1998
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  17. Literatur inter- und transmedial
    Inter- and Transmedial Literature
    Published: 2012
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    ISBN: 9789401208208; 9401208204; 9789042035478; 9042035471
    RVK Categories: GN 1083
    Series: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 82
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German; Description (Rhetoric); German literature; Intermediality; Literature; Mass media and literature; Literatur; Mass media and literature; Intermediality; Literature; German literature; Description (Rhetoric); Intermedialität; Literatur; Audiovisuelle Medien; Deutsch
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  18. Foregrounded Description in Prose Fictio
    Five Cross-Literary Studies
    Author: Lopes, J.M.
    Published: [2016]; © 1995
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    In this wide-ranging study, José Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures—French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian—testing his model across a cultural and temporal spectrum. This critical breadth also illustrates the significance of description in disparate contexts: the postmodern novel, which implicitly challenges conventional notions of foreground and background, as well as the naturalist and realist fiction of the nineteenth century.Lopes applies his model to detailed readings of Emile Zola's Une Page d'amour, Claude Simon's Histoire, Benito Pérez Galdós' La de Bringas, Cornélio Penna's A Menina Morta, and Carlos de Oliveira's Finisterra. In addition to exploring the interplay of description and narration, these readings pay particular attention to spatial descriptions, and analyse the diverse roles of description in different contexts. After subjecting each fictional text to a detailed analysis which seeks to bring out the crucial aspects that contribute towards the foregrounding of descriptive passages (e.g., mise en abyme, parody, modes of representation), and which establishes, on occasion, certain relations that literary description may entertain with the other arts, he attempts to isolate the primary functions of foregrounding descriptions. What he seeks to demonstrate is that description constitutes a major textual component necessary for the analysis and understanding of both nineteenth- and twentieth-century fictional texts
  19. Modes of viewing in Hellenistic poetry and art
    Author: Zanker, G., (Graham)
    Published: c2004
    Publisher:  University of Wisconsin Press, Madison

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    ISBN: 0299194531; 9780299194536
    RVK Categories: FE 1375 ; LG 1600
    Series: Wisconsin studies in classics
    Subjects: Poésie grecque hellénistique / Histoire et critique; Perception visuelle dans la littérature; Art et littérature / Grèce; Point de vue (Littérature); Discours descriptif; Rhétorique ancienne; Art hellénistique; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; Beeldende kunsten; Gedichten; Grieks; Hellenisme; Geschichte; Griechisch; Kunst; Lyrik; Greek poetry, Hellenistic; Description (Rhetoric); Visual perception in literature; Art and literature; Point of view (Literature); Rhetoric, Ancient; Art, Hellenistic; Lyrik; Griechisch; Kunst; Hellenismus; Rezeptionsästhetik
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    Aims, approaches, and samples -- Full presentation of the image -- Reader or viewer supplementation -- Reader or viewer integration -- An eye for the new : poetic genres, iconographical traditions -- Viewing pleasure and pain
  20. Landscape, liberty and authority
    poetry, criticism and politics from Thomson to Wordsworth
    Author: Fulford, Tim
    Published: c1996
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

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    ISBN: 0521554551
    Series: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 30
    Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature
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    Subjects: English poetry; Landscapes in literature; Politics and literature; Political poetry, English; Picturesque, The, in literature; Authority in literature; Description (Rhetoric); Liberty in literature; Lyrik; Politik; Politisches Denken; Englisch; Landschaft <Motiv>; Literatur
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  21. Icons, texts, iconotexts
    essays on ekphrasis and intermediality
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  W. de Gruyter, Berlin ; New York

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    ISBN: 9783110882599; 9783110142914
    Series: European cultures ; 6
    Subjects: Ekphrasis; European literature; Art and literature; Description (Rhetoric); Words in art; Text; Literatursemiotik; Bild; Intermedialität; Literatur; Ekphrasis; Kunst
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  22. The Unfinished Enlightenment
    Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia
    Author: Stalnaker, Joanna
    Published: [2011]; © 2011
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of... more

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    In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration-rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields-has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century

     
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    Subjects: Europe; Literary Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Description (Rhetoric); Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French; Enlightenment; Enlightenment; French literature; Natural history; Natural history; Aufklärung; Französisch; Enzyklopädie; Naturwissenschaften; Geistesleben; Literatur
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  23. The unfinished Enlightenment
    description in the age of the encyclopedia
    Author: Stalnaker, Joanna
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca [N.Y.]

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    Subjects: Geschichte; French literature; Description (Rhetoric); Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French; Natural history; Enlightenment; Aufklärung; Französisch; Enzyklopädie; Naturwissenschaften; Geistesleben; Literatur
    Scope: xvi, 240 p.
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    Buffon and Daubenton's two horses -- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's strawberry plant -- Diderot's word machine -- Delille's little encyclopedia -- Mercier's unframed Paris -- Description in revolution -- Conclusion : virtual encyclopedias
  24. Die literarische Landschaft
    Zur Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9783110227635; 3110227630; 3110227649; 9783110227642
    Subjects: German literature; Landscapes in literature; Nature in literature; Description (Rhetoric); Künste; Landschaft <Motiv>; Literatur; Deutsch
    Scope: 436 p.
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  25. Description in literature and other media
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    ISBN: 9042023104; 9789042023109
    Series: Studies in intermediality ; 2
    Subjects: Literatur; Description (Rhetoric); Description (Rhetoric) in art; Literature; Medien; Beschreibung
    Scope: viii, 341 p.
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