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Getting the Picture: The Ekphrastic Principle in Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry [Hardcover]

Margaret H. Persin (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1998

This study takes a probing look at how Spanish poets of the twentieth century read objects of visual art and write poems that use the discursive strategy known as ekphrasis and, in turn, how they are read by those texts. As a result, those artistic works OOreadOO by the poets are inscribed in the poetsO own distinctive stance toward such issues as textuality, representation, language, power, and so forth.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 257 pages
Publisher: Bucknell Univ Pr (January 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0838753353
ISBN-13: 978-0838753354
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,802,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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