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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 18–58.
Published: 01 March 2004
... bibliography and
by early commentators on the work (Sagar and Tabor 67).
Cave Birds, however, involves not only illustration (pictures on poems)
but ekphrasis (poems on pictures), a different kind of collaborative rela
tionship with a different history (Loizeaux 91—95). In 1974 Baskin, then
living...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 436–439.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the poems in light of the artworks from
which the poets drew inspirations yields a brilliant rereading of modernist
ekphrasis. Such an analysis, moreover, is rendered all the more engaging
by the large number of exquisite illustrations of Chinese artworks.
Qian’s central argument consists of two...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 365–388.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ekphrasis loss mourning Rainer Maria Rilke Seamus Heaney Sylvia Plath translation Walter Benjamin Works Cited Abraham Nicholas Torok Maria . 1994 . The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis . Edited and translated by Rand Nicholas . Chicago : University...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 461–486.
Published: 01 December 2002
...” in the text. Lessing’s
Laocoon (1766) famously articulated the prescription that a visual image was
most appropriately purely spatial, suspended in time. This dictate is under
mined by ekphrasis, of course. Joyce and other modernist writers overtly chal
lenged Lessing’s ideas with their verbal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 345–349.
Published: 01 September 2016
... impersonality” (56); she reads Bradley and Cooper’s documented friendship with Pater as the foundation for Field’s ekphrastic poetry collection, Sight and Song (1892), a collection exemplifying the genre of a museum guidebook all the while depicting ekphrasis as more than an extension of the male gaze...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 423–454.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., “Ekphrasis and the Other,” in Picture Theory 151-81.
16. See also James Heffernan 5 and Ryan 7.
17. Mieke Bal has made perhaps the most notable effort to complicate the
position of description within narrative theory: her most recent edition of
Narratology acknowledges that “the premise...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 June 2012
... is produced as an ekphrasis of sexual perversion” (95).
Frank Norris’s Vandover and the Brute (1895) serves as her first example.
The trope of becoming-dog, manifesting itself through the all-fours pose
and the protagonist’s snarling, barking vocalizations, emerges immediately
as the mark...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 137–144.
Published: 01 March 2009
... brings
her own heroines to life with an alternative vision. Working in the tradi
tion of ekphrasis, the practice of invoking actual works of art in literature,
Wharton emerges as one of American literature’s most gifted intertextual
realists, “deeply committed to interrogating and intervening...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 657–665.
Published: 01 December 2013
... encountering unexpected elements. “My Last Duchess” is
a conversation poem, a dramatic monologue, a study in pathology, a work
of ekphrasis: it is all of these things and more. But readers experiencing
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the shock of something like Pound’s Canto IV, or even of “Moeurs
Contemporaines...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Elizabeth Bergmann . 2009 . “ Women Looking: The Feminist Ekphrasis of Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich .” In In the Frame: Women’s Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler , edited by Hedley Jen Halpern Nick Spiegelman Willard . Newark : University of Delaware Press...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 299–328.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., Complex Intersections , edited by Scott Bonnie Kime , 623 – 32 . Chicago : University of Illinois Press . Mitchell W. J. T. 1994 . “ Ekphrasis and the Other .” In Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation , 151 – 82 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 437–466.
Published: 01 December 2005
...— croyez-
moi. Mais je l’aime, cette souffrance, car elle seule ne me trahit jamais,
me donne courage et la belle colère. (137-38).
23.1 am grateful to Mary Lou Emery for the suggestion that the description of
this painting functions as ekphrasis that, like Sasha’s dreams, expresses what...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 273–294.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., and Queer Ekphrasis . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Goodspeed-Chadwick Julie . 2011 . Modernist Women Writers and War: Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press . Heaney Emma . 2017 . The New Woman...
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Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... media by means of her abstractions. Describing the form of the medium as a “shape,” Dismorr renders the construction of sentences as both verbal and visual—a kind of ekphrasis. But if in transposing an artwork from one medium to another one meets “the pragmatic impasse” Brown (2014 : 525) describes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . “ Dazzling Estrangement: Modernism, Queer Ekphrasis, and the Spatial Form of Nightwood .” PMLA 124 , no. 3 : 749 – 63 . Halberstam Jack . 2011 . The Queer Art of Failure . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Henstra Sarah . 2000 . “ Looking the Part: Performative Narration...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
...,
1993.
Wall, Kathleen. “Significant Form in Jacob’s Room: Ekphrasis and the Elegy.”
Texas Studies in Language and Literature 44.3 (2002): 302-23.
Wilson, David M. The British Museum: A History. London: British Museum
Press, 2002.
Woolf, Virginia. Between the Acts. 1941. London...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 169–196.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and Unbalanced:
Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. New York: New Press, 2007.
Seely, Hart. “The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld.” Slate Magazine 2 April 2003.
6 November 2013.
Trussler, Michael. “Literary Artifacts: Ekphrasis in the Short Fiction of Donald
Barthelme, Salman Rushdie...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and perceived by the eye. And this uncertainty stirs uncertainty about other divisions: between parent and child, husband and wife, between beloved and lover, and one’s profession and one’s personality. Part ekphrasis, part iconography, Lawrence’s prose brims with repetitions, stutters, and puns, embracing...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 322–356.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of Reading: Mapping, Travel, and Ekphrasis in the
Poetry from the 1950s of John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop.” Scene
of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets. Ed. Terrence Diggory
and Stephen Paul Miller. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2001.
67–89. Print...
