Ekphrastic encounters

<p>This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to complicate this critical paradigm and proposes a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between visual and textual cultures. <br><br>This critical and theoretical shift demands a new form of ekphrastic poetics which is less concerned with representational and institutional struggles and more concerned with ideas of ethics affect and intersubjectivity. <i>Ekphrastic encounters</i> brings together leading scholars working in the field of word-and-image studies and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. Taken together the chapters establish a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter.</p>