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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
....” Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis . Ed. Alan H. Sommerstein, Stephen Halliwell, Jeffrey Henderson, and Bernhard Zimmerman. Bari: Levante Editori. 1991 . 101 -43. Fowler, Don. “Narrate and Describe: The Problem of Ekphrasis.” Journal of Roman Studies 81 ( 1991 ): 25 -35. ____. Roman...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 293–319.
Published: 01 September 2003
... are often more radi- cal. Such is the case both with Poussin’s painting “Et in Arcadia Ego” and Keats’s famous paradigm of ekphrasis, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” which involves transfer in the opposite direction: from visual to verbal art. Both works frame a classical act of communication within another...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 53–67.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of this, it is tempting to speak of the squiggles in terms of a reverse pictorialism, or even of a “reverse ekphrasis.” This latter term, which may be defined as the visual representation of a verbal representation, to invert a standard definition of ekphrasis, is introduced by Murray Krieger in the foreword...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 214–232.
Published: 01 June 2001
... bestsennoe sushchestvo—takoe sushchestvo, kotoroe odno stoilo vsei prirody i vsekh zakonov ee, vsei zemli, kotoraia i sozdavalas’-to, mozhet byt’, edinstvenno dlia odnogo tol’ko poiavleniia etogo sushchestva! (8:338, 339) Ippolit’s ekphrasis on Holbein’s “Dead Christ” can be read as an Enlightenment...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and the more ambivalent and conflicting signals prevalent in its many written representations. Perhaps the visual archive, the plantation archipelago or imago, allows for a kind of ekphrasis or freeze-framing of a moment of consciousness for further use or reiteration — a technique that works much...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2001
... stampatori in Pisa. Lateiner, Donald. “Mythic and Non-Mythic Artists in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Ramus 13 ( 1984 ): 1 -30. Leach, Eleanor W. “Ekphrasis and the Theme of Artistic Failure in Ovid's Metamorphoses.” Ramus 3 ( 1974 ): 102 -42. Newlands, Carole E. Playing with Time: Ovid...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
... A. Grusin, the main con- temporary exponents of remediation theory, one medium takes up and refash- ions another medium through techniques like ekphrasis  or by reworking older forms in newer ones. Among their examples are the incorporation of maps and globes into Old Master Dutch painting...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 44–58.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., postmodernism, hypertext, landscape, and, most recently, the role of the visual in his fiction, from cinema and painting to ekphrasis (see Belpoliti and Ricci). Those discussions of Calvino are also not infrequently comparative in nature, indicating the degree to which Calvino has been adopted as one...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 463–488.
Published: 01 December 2021
... revealing that, in his ekphrasis of the print, Gautier interprets the luminary in the background not as a comet, as is conventional, but as a black sun setting over the sea (“. . . d’un grand soleil tout noir” [168]). As discussed below, Darío’s poem also pairs the melancholy posture of the poetic subject...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and remix, “troubled, confused.” This sensory and material chaos parallels the anachronistic gaudiness of the scenery: classical reception reduced to garish decoration. It is not surprising, then, that Philomela would appear, as her story is perhaps one of the oldest allegories of ekphrasis, an antidote...