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Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 53–67.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... A. Hoffmann Honoré de Balzac narrative lines reverse ekphrasis THE LINE HAS long served as a figure for the movement of narrative. In Ariadne’s Thread , J. Hillis Miller interrogates the idiom of the “story line” by means of the image of Ariadne unwinding a spool of thread as she moves through...
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Time, Space, and Illusion: Between Keats and Poussin
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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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Between Iconoclasm and Silence: Representing the Divine in Holbein and Dostoevskii
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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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Marsyas's Howl: The Myth of Marsyas in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Zbigniew Herbert's “Apollo and Marsyas”
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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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Jug Songs: Acoustic Enclosure from Ovid to Eliot
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... tries to distinguish apostrophe from address, while disproving Culler’s historic claim that critics have shied away from discussing apostrophe. 3 These associations were initially reversed in the Greek myth: Procne was the nightingale, Philomela the swallow. The inversion only arose in later...
