Front matter -- Indice -- Introducción -- La crítica ecfrástica -- El paisaje -- El retrato -- La naturaleza muerta -- Conclusiones -- Bibliografía
Summary
Essays exploring relationship between visual and literary arts. Revives and expands on age-old concept of ekphrasis, referring to rhetorical exercise offering dramatic description of work of art. Pairs and compares writers with artists of many cultures and time periods: William Carlos Williams and Seamus Heaney with Brueghel; Margaret Atwood with Manet; Joseph Cornell with Octavio Paz and Elizabeth Bishop; and others
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277)
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 5, 2015)
