The poetics of sight / John Harvey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural interactions ; 25.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783035307061 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poetics of sight.DDC classification:
  • 809/.93357 23
LOC classification:
  • PN53 .H38 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introductory: sight, the mind's eye and art -- Shakespeare pictures -- A poetry of vision: William Blake -- Satire and sight -- Bleak house to lighthouse: the optics of the novel -- Metaphor and modernism -- Note A: the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare -- Note B: the writer as art-critic.
Summary: "In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida" -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory: sight, the mind's eye and art -- Shakespeare pictures -- A poetry of vision: William Blake -- Satire and sight -- Bleak house to lighthouse: the optics of the novel -- Metaphor and modernism -- Note A: the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare -- Note B: the writer as art-critic.

"In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida" -- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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